Superfund Tax Receipts Fall Short, Raising Fears Of New Cleanup Backlog

The Internal Revenue Service’s (IRS) renewed Superfund taxes have generated less than half of what the agency projected would be available for use in fiscal year 2024, raising fears that it could curb cleanup funds available to EPA and re-create the cleanup backlog the Biden administration recently ended. “The program could be facing funding challenges like in the old days,” says one former EPA official, warning that it would likely lead to a “new backlog of unfunded construction projects,” a...