EPA defends 'Top 21' Superfund site list in response to GOP concerns

EPA's acting waste chief is defending the agency's "Top 21" list of Superfund sites that are slated to get priority attention from Administrator Scott Pruitt, telling GOP lawmakers that Pruitt's involvement will speed cleanups and break impasses, though the response fails to answer questions about the lack of any additional funding. Pruitt's "personal involvement in the sites on the List is reflective of the high priority of the Superfund program," Barry Breen, EPA's principal deputy assistant administrator for the Office...