EPA lifts ban on selling PCB sites

[Sticky]

By Peter Eisler, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — The Bush administration has ended a 25-year-old ban on the sale of land polluted with PCBs. The ban was intended to prevent hundreds of polluted sites from being redeveloped in ways that spread the toxin or raise public health risks.

The Environmental Protection Agency decided the ban was "an unnecessary barrier to redevelopment (and) may actually delay the clean-up of contaminated properties," according to an internal memo issued last month to advise agency staff of the change.

The decision, already in effect, has not been made public. It is being treated as a "new interpretation" of existing law, according to the memo, which was obtained by USA TODAY. As such, no public comment was required.

http://www.usatoday.com/news/washington/2003-09-01-epa-usat_x.htm

[arcane1]

1. sweet! I'll buy one and dig a well there, and sell H2O to the poor

you can almost hear them say....

maybe a few schools, low-income housing, etc? You know they will, they're addicted to goddamn pollution...

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

2. Between Gail Norton and Elaine Chao...

The ladies are certainly having themselves a field day, are they not?

On edit: OOps, I meant Christy, but she's gone. Can't blame her.

[OneBlueSky]

3. one piece of campaign literature that will help Dems enormously . . .

will be a simple recitation, in list form, of Bush's record on the environment . . . environmental protection is something that most people feel strongly about, and a good handout that explicates what BushCo has done in the past three years will be a major vote-getter for the Dems, imo . . .

[Karenina]

4. Unbelievable.

:mad: