As EPA Hones Focus, GOP Senator Floats Roadmap For Superfund Reform

As EPA is taking steps to hone the focus of Administrator Scott Pruitt's Superfund reform effort, Sen. Steve Daines (R-MT) is offering an outline of recommendations for improving the program's implementation, including limiting the use of the National Priorities List (NPL), prioritizing the program for funding and revising metrics for determining cleanup success. Citing studies showing adverse economic impacts from NPL listings and adverse health impacts from slow cleanups, Daines said in a June 27 letter to Pruitt that “all...