EPA's superfund program is eroding, critics say

Mercury News ^ | 4/20/03 | Seth Borenstein - Knight Ridder

[NormsRevenge]

STRAFFORD, Vt. -Stuart and Susan Rogers wear beepers because the toxic waste dump two miles from their home might collapse and let loose a toxic mudslide.

Acid waste from the nearby Elizabeth copper mine was killing part of the Ompompanoosuc River, so the Environmental Protection Agency drafted a $15 million cleanup plan under the Superfund program. The EPA, however, provided no money for the work.

[verity]

"It's just going to get worse and worse," local activist Bob Walker said. "Last year, it was seven projects that weren't funded. Next year, it will be more."

Get off the Democrat bandwagon. ;~)

[dark_lord]

Only about 40 percent of Superfund money is spent on actual clean up, she said, with the rest spent on overhead expense.

Gee, what a surprise.

[Larry Lucido]

over the past two years, the EPA has designed fewer cleanup plans, started less waste-removal work and finished far fewer jobs than it did during the Clinton administration and some years before that:

No kidding! Less work was done in 2 years than during the previous 10 to 12 years????? How could this be????

[NormsRevenge]

Better to air all this out now, then later.

I post a lot of stuff from two of the paramount liebral news rags in California.

It is highly instructive of the propaganda used to wage war on "conservatives".

The Republicans must learn to deal with the messes thrust upon them by others and, all too often, brought on by themselves. Politics is a dirty business, after all.

[Comus]

Only about 40 percent of Superfund money is spent on actual clean up, she said, with the rest spent on overhead expense.

Overhead = Lawyers.

Most of the Superfund dollars wind up in the pockets of lawyers.

[Hoppean]

I hope the budget keeps eroding, too. Abolish the whole EPA and be done with it.

[free from tyranny]

Why don't we just export the EPA to China, Mexico and Russia like all of our manufacturing business. The lawyers will find the mother of all superfunds in these places.

Maybe we should declare Havard and Yale superfund sites. They have been oozing toxins for years.

[StatesEnemy]

I hope the budget keeps eroding, too. Abolish the whole EPA and be done with it.

1...2...3...4...5...6...7...8...9......10. WHEW!

OK, that is a rather shortsighted viewpoint.

I understand that American businesses complain that their offshore competitors do business with no semblance environmental responsibility. And therefor they operate with an initial advantage - which is why ANY 'FREE" TRADE AGREEMENTS should be predicated with stipulations as to environmental standards.

The EPA is far from perfect, but I refuse to believe that the means of production must foul the nest.

I am a fisherman, hiker, biker, camper and all around outdoorsy type - and I prefer catching fish out of the Connecticut that I can actually eat.
Imagine... what a novel idea.

[Issaquahking]

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