After 20 years spent cleaning up old mines, chemical plants, landfills, rivers and other areas across the country contaminated by toxic waste, the EPA still has a lot more work to do, according to a new study, Superfund's Future: What Will It Cost?
The findings of this new Congress-commissioned report by Resources for the Future (RFF) scholars Katherine Probst and David Konisky will disappoint those who were expecting an imminent "ramp down" in the cost to EPA of administering the Superfund program. In fact, the report states there is enough work to ensure the agency's Superfund costs will not decline before 2006 at the very earliest, and then only by a small amount.