Industry Coalition Offers Fixes for Troubled Superfund

Abstract

A group of 18 companies from four industrial sectors—including the chemical industry—calling itself the Coalition on Superfund, is weighing in early with its recommendations for fixing the ailing hazardous waste law. Renewal of the law is not scheduled until 1994. However, Congress is planning to hold hearings this year, and the industry coalition wants to make certain that its views on making the law function more effectively, and in a cost efficient and fair manner, are clearly heard and thoroughly understood. The coalition's message is simple, says spokesman John W. Johnstone Jr., chairman, president, and chief executive officer of Olin Corp., a company in the coalition. Superfund reform should be the number one environmental priority of the 103rd Congress and the Clinton Administration. As Johnstone explained to the press recently: Superfund is broken. It has never worked the way it was intended, and it never will—unless it is changed. Basically, the coalition members believe that ...