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Kurt Ullman

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assets. The problem is with many of these superfund sites, eg dump
sites, the dumping had been going on for decades and many of the
companies involved no longer exist. In other cases, the legal system
has extracted huge amounts from corporations for the mistakes they
made. John Mansville wound up bankrupt after paying out claims for
asbestos. The tobacco companies paid billions to settle their
claims. The point Pete C made about environmental groups generally
being able to make false claims, use the legal system to block
projects and then walking away with no consequences is a valid one.

Also many of the Superfund sites are related to dumping that was
perfectly legal at the time. The legal system also got a fair amount of
money from them.
In fact, this litigation before the SF money is used is one of the
main reasons it takes so long to start clean-up. The feds have to try
and find the responsible parties and have to try and get their money
from the RPs before they can spend SF money.