Bush administration reluctant to reimpose Superfund tax. (News).(Brief Article)

Chemical Market Reporter, March, 2002

THE BUSH administration is committed to a "polluter pays" principle for cleaning up Superfund toxic waste sites, but is reluctant to reimpose a special tax on the chemical and oil industries, the head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) told Congress last week. Testifying before House appropriators, EPA administrator Christie Whitman said the administration did not ask Congress to renew the tax in its fiscal 2003 budget request because lawmakers have not overhauled the Superfund law since the mid-1980s.

"We need to take another look at Superfund and see if anything needs to be done before we move forward to reauthorize [the tax]," Mrs. Whitman says. "Things have changed since the tax was first imposed." The Superfund tax on chemical and...

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