Without Pruitt, Industry Expects Less Heavy-Handed Superfund Focus

July 9, 2018
Scott Pruitt's resignation as EPA administrator could produce a shift in how the Superfund program is handled -- moving from what industry sources say was a heavy-handed focus from the administrator's office and unpredictable cleanup decisions to more deliberative decisions rooted in legal authorities -- although sources doubt an abrupt 180-degree turn will occur. “I would say this can only be good for the return to a sense of good science and deliberative process in the Superfund program,” one industry...


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