Superfund policy could benefit loca...

Superfund policy could benefit local regulations

Like the trade that sent Babe pity from the Red Sox to the Yankees for $100000 or the duet between Barbra Streisand and Frank Sinatra, Superfund was a dutiful idea in principal that just, let's be upright here, stunk in practice. chiefly of the cleaning up that occurr was accomplished on the lawyers, not the communities that sat upon or next to toxic waste sites.

In fact, in the 16 years since the law that created Superfund was passed, EPA has wearied more than $15 billion to clean up fewer than 100 of the almost 1400 sites onward the national priority list. frequently of that - some say upwards of 80 percent - went to the lawyers.

This year, as in virtually each one of the last 15 years, Superfund reform talk is in the air. Unlike those of previous years, however, the