Obama also would follow up on a campaign pledge to fortify the federal superfund program, by reinstating a tax on polluters the administration estimates will raise $17.2 billion over a decade. Congressional Republicans allowed the superfund tax to expire in 1995. The government now finances cleanups with general tax revenues or by dunning polluters, assuming they are found liable and are capable of paying some portion of the bill.
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