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GAO: Superfund To Run Out Of Money

HeadlineSep 03, 2003

A new Congressional study has founded that the trust fund set up to clean hazardous Superfund sites will run out of money next month. The lack of money came about in part because in 1996 Washington stopped placing an environmental tax on chemical and oil companies to pay for cleanup of contaminated sites.

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