Industry Unnerved By Pruitt's Push For Excavation At Some Superfund Sites

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt's close oversight of high-profile Superfund cleanup decisions, as well as strict remedies he has supported for some sites, is drawing concern among potentially responsible parties (PRPs) that the administrator is signaling plans to embrace costlier excavation remedies at some sites. While one PRP source says it is still early in Pruitt's tenure with few examples to say with certainty that politicization of the Superfund program is occurring, parties are "starting to see some data points that...