US EPA gets $600 million for Superfund programme

Consultancies welcome new cash for “Superfund” cleanup of abandoned toxic waste sites, but underlying regulatory drivers are more important

08-May-09 As part of a suite of funding for public sector environmental projects, Barack Obama's American Recovery and Reinvestment Act gave the US Environmental Protection Agency an additional $600 million for the federal Superfund programme to support the remediation of 50 abandoned toxic waste sites scattered across 28 states. The details were announced by the EPA last month. The EPA also received $200 million to clean up leaking underground storage...

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