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Polluters pay billions in cleanup costs.(Brief Article)
Business Insurance, January, 2004
Byline: BRUCE GEISELMAN WASHINGTON-Polluters paid $2.9 billion to reduce pollution and clean up contamination during fiscal year 2003 as a result of enforcement actions by the federal government. That is about $1 billion less than in the previous year. But the amount of pollution reduced, treated or properly managed as a result of enforcement actions increased from 260 million pounds in fiscal year 2002 to 600 million pounds in 2003, according to estimates released Dec.
11 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. Calling the numbers "impressive,'' EPA Assistant Administrator John Peter Suarez said the facts demonstrated the agency's commitment to a vigorous enforcement and compliance assurance program, which is the program he oversees. Some agency...
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