"Key players in the long-dormant effort to make companies pay for toxic site cleanups notched a big win in the recently enacted infrastructure bill. Now, they’re hoping for a similar payoff in the massive reconciliation package.
In the infrastructure bill, the targets were chemical makers. This time around, it’s the oil and gas industry.
"I think it’s an opportunity to rebalance the scales," Rep. Earl Blumenauer (D-Ore.) said in an interview with E&E News.
Blumenauer is part of a group of lawmakers doing a victory lap after a per-ton excise tax on 42 chemicals made it into the $1 trillion infrastructure package. That tax is one of three that once powered a congressionally mandated fund that provides for the cleanup of the nation’s most contaminated sites."
E.A. Crunden and George Cahlink report for E&E News November 30, 2021.
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