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Cuts at EPA Hinder Cleanup in Clermont, Fla.
Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News, July, 2002
By Kevin Spear, The Orlando Sentinel, Fla. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News
Jul. 2--The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency on Monday released specific cuts in funding for work at Tower Chemical Co. near Clermont and at 32 other sites in the nation contaminated with toxins.
The agency's Superfund program has been running out of money for several years, leaving the Bush administration pressed to pay for work at hundreds of polluted properties where owners won't take responsibility.
Tower Chemical Co., a former pesticide plant and one of the oldest Superfund projects, was denied a request by EPA's own site managers for $250,000 to install water filters at about a half-dozen nearby homes. The much larger cost of cleaning up the site...
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