Pruitt Endorses Sweeping Superfund Overhaul Using Cleanup Incentives

EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt is endorsing 42 recommendations from an agency task force for a sweeping overhaul of the Superfund program that would rely heavily on the novel use of third-party investments in cleanups and seek to accelerate site projects with incentives such as reducing oversight costs charged to responsible parties. The task force recommendations released publicly by the agency July 25 do not include any suggestions for legislation to implement the changes, although the recommendations concede that existing authority...