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Taking the 'fund' out of Superfund
New report says federal cleanup program wasting away |
Kate Sheppard |
01 May 2007 |
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| Image reprinted with permission from the Center for Public Integrity. A drop-off in both government action and funding has all but stopped the push to clean up America's most toxic sites, posing health and environmental threats all over the country, according to a comprehensive series of reports released last week by the Center for Public Integrity. Under the Bush administration, the amount of money budgeted to clean up these sites has plummeted and cleanup ... |
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| Topics: air pollution, politics, pollution and waste, water pollution (all these topics) |
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