Laptop Battery A measure to shift the burden of Superfund toxic waste cleanups back to polluters was defeated in the Senate tonight, but the measure gained bipartisan support and increases pressure on the Bush administration to put the health and safety of communities before corporate polluters. The amendment to the Budget Bill to reinstate the "polluter pays" fees, cosponsored by Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), Jon Corzine (D-NJ), Barbara Boxer (D-CA), and James Jeffords (I-VT), lost 43-53.
According to the indictment, Jones would steal various IBM and Penguin computer servers from Verisign's warehouse in Virginia and sell them to Johnson. Johnson would then sell the servers to several individuals, who would sometimes place them for sale on eBay. As a result of this scheme, the indictment alleges that Jones and Johnson caused Verisign to lose more than $120, 000 worth of computer equipment. In the indictment, Jones and Johnson are charged in three counts with causing the interstate transportation of stolen property, namely IBM 330 and 335 servers, in violation of 18 U.S.C.
Thinkpad The landmark program ran out of polluter-contributed funds last year, and the amendment would have relieved taxpayers of the significant financial burden of cleaning up abandoned toxic waste sites.
"Superfund Undermined" (editorial, some editions, Oct. 28) is correct that "polluter pays" is the operating principle of the program. Since 1996, when the trust fund tax expired, polluters have paid an average of $838 million per year to clean sites. That's almost four times what we spent on "orphan" sites, those where ownership has changed hands many times or a company has gone bankrupt.
Microsoft "The Bush administration has abandoned the landmark principle that corporate polluters should be held responsible for the toxic messes they leave behind. We are deeply disappointed that the Senate today failed to change this irresponsible course," said Carl Pope, Sierra Club Executive Director. "If the administration embraced this idea, we could more easily afford to protect Americans' health and safety."
Torricelli claims Forrester is against Superfund. He should be. Superfund is the most counterproductive environmental law ever written. Clean up the Superfund sites now with general tax dollars and find and fine the real polluters later.
Laptop Computers Earlier this week, the Environmental Protection Agency proposed to add 11 sites to the Superfund National Priority List (NPL), but this announcement loses its luster in light of the Senate vote and the Bush administration's failures to support the Superfund program.
"Computer industry analysts estimate that some 60 percent of all corporate data exists only on desktop and laptop computers, " said Walter Scott, CEO of Acronis. "Incorporating Acronis True Image with New Mexico Software backup server is the ideal solution to capture that corporate data and ensure that it is not lost. While traditional server backups are effective for protecting server data, every company should have a combination of server and workstation backup plans."
Laptop Computer "The Bush administration should demand that corporate polluters contribute to the Superfund because it is a sound fiscal measure, would enhance revenues and help cut the skyrocketing deficit," said Pope. "The Senate failed today to relieve taxpayers of an unnecessary burden. The Bush administration should move forward to put the health and safety of families and communities ahead of corporate polluters."
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Desktop Computer Already, 1 in 4 Americans, including 10 million children, lives within 4 miles of a toxic waste site that is considered a Superfund cleanup priority. Once a site is listed on the NPL, it takes on average 11 years before the cleanup is complete. Without the polluter-funded trust fund, sites are forced to compete with other Superfund site and the entire program competes with other federal environmental priorities. The rate of completed cleanups has fallen by 50 percent during the Bush administration compared to 1997-2000, and site listings have slowed down as well.
Notebooks For information on how the Bush administration EPA is misleading the public about the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program, please read the new U.S. PIRG and Sierra Club report at: http://www.sierraclub.org/toxics/factsheets/cleanups.pdf
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