Column: Many challenges await a revitalized US EPA
Column: Many challenges await a revitalized US EPA Jim Simon Early in my corporate career, I was tasked by my employer, Allied Chemical (now Honeywell), to develop a briefing book on the contents of the company’s waste disposal sites to help the environmental affairs department address which locations would require cleanup under the federal “Superfund” law of 1980. I still vividly recall looking at maps of all polluted groundwater zones around the U.S. and New Jersey in particular. Those visuals brought home the need to address a growing national crisis. A driving influence behind the c...