The Super Fund is now a "Super Letdown"

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From Utne Reader

The Environmental Protection Agency's Superfund may sound impressive, but recent studies show that the program is incapable of handling the toxic cleanup duties it was designed for. The fund began in 1980 as a program to tax corporate polluters and pool the money into one large "Superfund" to pay for detoxifying sites created by unknown or indigent polluters. The program soon accumulated a sizable kitty with which to repair the country's most scarred lands. But now, thanks to years of neglect and mismanagement, the money for the Superfund has run dry and left hundreds of sites festering in toxic waste.

http://www.utne.com/webwatch/2007_308/news/12659-1.html