The Not-So Superfund

Congress lets fund to hold companies responsible for cleaning up their pollution run dry

By Chelsea Ross

About 40 miles north of Chicago, in Waukegan, Ill., a parcel of land sits between the Waukegan Harbor and the shore of Lake Michigan. Known as the Outboard Marine Corp. Superfund site, it's where multiple companies--including General Motors, North Shore Gas and the Outboard Marine Corp [RETURN TO ARTICLE]

  • Reader Comments

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    I’d like to see a corporate environmental tax as I consider myself a consumer of goods. Maybe then it wouldn’t be a mystery on how to dispose of electronic waste. I would pay the extra or not purchase at all then, not purchase being the preferred route.

    Canada Posted by VikiBabu on Jul 6, 2007 at 1:47 AM

    The whole “Superfund” boondoggle is all the proof anyone needs that we have always needed very strong regulation and very much stronger enforcement of industry’ s every move.

    I would make you a bet that 9 out of 10 people do not translate the taxpayer’s paying to clean up these sites to our paying a large part of   the “cost of doing business”, i.e., the cost of getting very wealthy on someone else’s nickel.

    Costa Rica Posted by mdruss42 on Jul 11, 2007 at 6:56 AM
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