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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.—dumped toxic waste for nearly a century. Although it’s been a superfund site for more… return to article

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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 2:47 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 7:56 AM
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