Senators from both parties agree EPA’s Superfund program needs some major changes.
While the Trump administration continues razing through federal agencies in the name of government efficiency, the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee held a hearing on how to quicken and cheapen cleanups at some of the nation’s most contaminated sites.
“I think we have good bipartisan agreement here that the system is broken,” Chair Shelley Moore Capito (R-W.Va.) said Wednesday. “We’ve put more money into this recently, and we want to see it result in completions of these projects as much as you do. So let’s work together to try to find a solution.”
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Ranking member Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) said he “second[s] that motion.”
