EPA Let Pollution Fester At 302 Sites For Years, Sometimes DECADES

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EPA Let Pollution Fester At 302 Sites For Years, Sometimes DECADES
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Ethan Barton
7:21 PM 12/18/2016
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The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, speaks at the Center for American Progress   The Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), Gina McCarthy, speaks at the Center for American Progress' 2014 Making Progress Policy Conference in Washington November 19, 2014. REUTERS/Gary Cameron

People living near up to 302 highly-contaminated sites controlled by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have faced health hazards from pollution for years or sometimes decades, a Daily Caller News Foundation investigation has found.

Those sites are part of the EPA’s Superfund program, which is intended to clean the most dangerous and polluted places in America. But the agency has either been unable or unwilling to decontaminate many of the locations, allowing pollution to fester, a DCNF analysis of more than 1,300 active Superfund sites found.

Read more: http://dailycaller.com/2016/12/18/epa-let-pollution-fester-at-302-sites-for-years-sometimes-decades/#ixzz4TIZgdykJ

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More than 85% (!) of the money in Superfund goes to legal costs, not actual cleanup.  Plus, funds are limited...there's not enough to clean up everything right away.  While EPA does take a long time by following a step-by-step process for Superfund, the projects would be completed a lot faster and a lot cheaper if responsible parties would pay up and various parties (both business and envirowacko) weren't obstructive.

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More than 85% (!) of the money in Superfund goes to legal costs, not actual cleanup.  Plus, funds are limited...there's not enough to clean up everything right away.  While EPA does take a long time by following a step-by-step process for Superfund, the projects would be completed a lot faster and a lot cheaper if responsible parties would pay up and various parties (both business and envirowacko) weren't obstructive.

The EPA is almost completely unnecessary IMO. Most of it's tasks can be handled, better, by state and local governments. Only EPA might do well is hand cross border environmental disputes.