For 25 Years, Taxpayers Picked Up Pollutersâ Superfund Bill. That May Finally Change.
Fees on oil producers and petrochemical companies once funded toxic waste cleanups. Republicans let them expire in 1995. Democrats want them back.
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Trevor Beckermann and his mother, Meagan Beckermann, pictured in 2017 at their home near the West Lake Landfill, a Superfund site, in greater St. Louis, Missouri. The family blames the child s autoimmune disease on exposure to toxic contaminants at the site.
For 15 years, the industries responsible for the nationâs worst toxic pollution helped pay into a federal trust for cleaning up waste sites through special taxes on petroleum, chemical components and corporate income. That program became known as âSuperfund.âÂ
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Editorial: Obamacare Remains Alive And Well
Ventura County Star (CA)
Commentary
Mark Twain famously responded that a report of his death was an exaggeration. He had nothing on Obamacare. At one time or another during his tenure, President Donald Trump declared the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act dead, ended, terminated and obliterated. What we really have left is the carcass of Obamacare, Trump told Fox News a year ago. It was, in his words, a disaster and a joke. Has anybody heard of Obamacare? Trump mocked at a campaign stop in September.
Actually, that would be a most definitive yes – particularly for the 20 million Americans who have health insurance today thanks to the 11-year-old federal sponsored health insurance program that was a signature achievement of President Barack Obama. Either by expanding Medicaid enrollment or providing government discounts (tax credits) on health insurance plans, the law has been effective at reducing longstanding health co
With sweeping economic recovery plans, President Joe Biden seeks his own legacy like the New Deal or Great Society. But he's also bolstering Barack Obama's.
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