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Pruitt announces Superfund task force
U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has created a Superfund task force that will provide recommendations to the agency within 30 days on how to "streamline and improve" the program.
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Cecelia Smith-Schoenwalder, E&E News reporter
U.S. EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt has created a Superfund task force that will provide recommendations to the agency within 30 days on how to "streamline and improve" the program.
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When President Clinton required federal agencies to consider environmental justice in 1994, it was hailed as a landmark achievement for the movement. But Clinton's executive order didn't anticipate one of its biggest obstacles: the agencies themselves.
By Jeremy P. Jacobs in Greenwire
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