Should tax payers have to pay for the clean-up of toxic and polluted sites that industries created? Isn't it the culprits that should have to pay for the damages that they themselves created. Or should citizens and tax payers pay for the damages along with the industries because it is our environment and is important to our health and our children's and our children's children. We should not leave pollution for the next generation to clean because it wasn't there fault. The industries and numerous companies that caused these environmental hazards should pay for the clean up of these waste lands, but most of the companies that caused them are either bankrupt or out of business.
It's our duty to clean up the remaining nasty sites because if we don't do something about it soon then it's just going to get worse and worse over time. Superfund was created to clean the nations abandoned polluted wastelands and was until fairly recently funded by excise taxes from oil and chemical industries but these fees expired in 1995 and the Congress has failed to renew this deal. For this reason the amount of money taxpayers fund for this program has nearly tripled since that time. Since companies are paying less and taxpayers more, the amount of money going into these program has dropped by half.
To fix this problem the government needs to make tougher laws on environmental issues because it's our world and we only have one chance to take care of it, otherwise it's gone forever. The government needs to make an effort to make laws that cut the amount of carbon dioxide being emitted into our fragile atmosphere and stop supporting the big oil companies all the time. The U.S. needs to change the way they treat our beautiful world or else we won't have anywhere to live anymore. Supporting Superfund and renewing the excise tax deal with the various companies will help, but will not clean all the polluted areas. Though it is a great way to start anew.
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/about.htm
http://www.epa.gov/superfund/
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