For 25 Years, Taxpayers Picked Up Polluters’ Superfund Bill. That May Finally Change.
For 15 years, the industries responsible for the nation’s worst toxic pollution helped pay into a federal trust for cleaning up waste sites through special taxes on petroleum, chemical components and corporate income. That program became known as “Superfund.” But in 1995, the Republican-led Congress allowed those taxes to expire. They have never been reinstated, [...]