polluters should pay for Superfund cleanups

Reinstating the Superfund tax will re-establish the polluter pays principle of the law, reduce pressures on the budget, and lead to faster cleanups of these toxic and dangerous sites.

I just think it is wrong.

I would totally disagree that more was done under Trump than under Obama, or to suggest--which may be or not, but it sounded like you were suggesting that most of the sites were cleaned up.

Mr. Pallone. Thank you, Chairman Tonko. And look, Mr. McKinley, I like you, and I am trying not to be partisan here.

Taxpayers have been footing the bill to clean up polluters' messes for far too long.

preventing releases is better than cleaning them up after they occur

cleanups are becoming even more imperative because of climate change

Reinstating the Superfund taxes will reestablish the polluter pays principle of the law.

The Superfund program is critical to cleaning up the most toxic sites across our country.

But the bottom line is we really need to have--we can't rely on general revenue, because the list of sites that don't get cleaned up and the type of cleanups that are ineffective get longer unless you have a pot of money like the Superfund…

But the bottom line is, if you are going to continue to say that somehow Trump did a better job at cleanup than Obama, then I am going to have to respond to that, and simply say that it is not true, OK?