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| Program Number | S1105 |
| Title | Environment and Health/Safety Issues: Part II |
| PBS Number | 2616 |
| Moderator | - |
| Host | Buckley, William F. (William Frank), 1925-2008. |
| Guest(s) | 1) Goodman, John C. - President of the National Center for Policy Analysis 2) Gramm, Wendy Lee. - sometime Chairman of the U.S. Commodity Futures Trading Commission under Presidents Reagan and Bush 3) Wallop, Malcolm. - retired Republican Senator from Wyoming 4) Pope, Carl. - Executive Director of the Sierra Club 5) Krupp, Fred. - Executive Director of the Environmental Defense Fund |
| Taped on | Oct 8, 1996 (Dallas, TX) |
| Broadcast Date | Dec 1, 1996 |
| Duration | 30 minutes (or hh:mm:ss) |
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| Summary | Now that we've conducted a post-mortem of the election, we're back to the environmental series begun in show #S1100. Today's sessions, combative but full of substance, focus largely on Superfund, which Mr. Krupp glosses as "the statute that requires that the toxic waste dumps around the country be cleaned up, and it's funded by a tax on industry--the same industries that created the chemicals that ended up in these dumps." But he adds, before his adversaries can do it for him, "The law doesn't work well; it needs to be fixed." One sample: JCG: "I would say that more than half the money spent on Superfund has gone into the hands of lawyers, and I would say that if we abolished Superfund tomorrow we'd probably have a clean environment." WFB: "Or you could abolish lawyers." JCG: "Well, if we could do that we'd also have a cleaner environment." |
| Subject Heading(s) | Hazardous waste site remediation -- United States. United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Environmental policy -- United States. United States. Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980. Liability for hazardous substances pollution damages -- United States. Liability for environmental damages -- United States. Hazardous substances -- Environmental aspects -- United States. |
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