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Polluters Should Pay to Clean Up Their Messes: EPA, Do Your Job and Create Rules That Protect the Public

Financial assurance rules are overdue. For more than 30 years, the EPA has been required to develop rules pertaining to industries that handle hazardous substances. Too often, companies file for bankruptcy and avoid financial responsibility for cleaning up harmful pollution. When that happens, taxpayers foot the bill.

Industry lobby groups don’t want the EPA to concentrate on legacy contamination, despite the fact that it tends to persist within the environment. Legacy contaminants tend to build up within an organism (such as a human) exposed either directly to the contamination or indirectly through the food web. These contaminants also tend to be toxic even at low concentrations. It is clearly misguided for the EPA not to consider the impact of legacy contamination. The EPA also needs to consider waste oil recycling sites, refineries and coke production facilities.

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Subject: Docket ID No. EPA–HQ– OLEM–2019–0087 - make companies pay for the costs of their pollution

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Dear Administrator Wheeler: I am writing to you today because I want the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to do its job by creating rules to ensure that industry, not the American public, picks up the tab for cleanups of the petroleum and coal manufacturing industries. Financial assurance rules are overdue. For more than 30 years, the EPA has been required to develop rules pertaining to industries that handle hazardous substances. Too often, companies file for bankruptcy and avoid financial responsibility for cleaning up harmful pollution. When that happens, taxpayers foot the bill. Industry lobby groups don’t want the EPA to concentrate on legacy contamination, despite the fact that it tends to persist within the environment. Legacy contaminants tend to build up within an organism (such as a human) exposed either directly to the contamination or indirectly through the food web. These contaminants also tend to be toxic even at low concentrations. It is clearly misguided for the EPA not to consider the impact of legacy contamination. The EPA also needs to consider waste oil recycling sites, refineries and coke production facilities. Administrator Wheeler, I oppose this rule. I call on you and the EPA to protect community health and the American taxpayer, not corporate pocketbooks. Thank you for your consideration of my comments. I look forward to your reply. Sincerely,

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