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American Idle
Who needs Superfund when we've got reality TV? |
Joshua Zaffos, Writers on the Range |
19 Jun 2003 |
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| By the end of the year, only $28 million will be left in the U.S. EPA's Superfund account. Superfund pays for the reclamation of abandoned toxic-waste sites, and $28 million barely affords a study just to figure out how to clean up one of the 1,200 deserted dumps wasting away in American communities. Money's tight to fund cleanups of Superfund sites like this one in Pennsylvania. Photo ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, business, energy, politics, pollution and waste, United States, US EPA (all these topics) |
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