Source: Keith Lewis, ROLL CALL, 8/12/21

 A Senate Democratic proposal to make the biggest polluters in the U.S. pay a tax based on past greenhouse gas emissions is being compared to the polluter-pays principle of the Superfund program that spent billions of dollars cleaning up hazardous waste sites around the country over the past four decades. The proposal from Sen. Chris Van Hollen, D-Md., and fellow Democrats would task the EPA with determining which companies contributed at least 0.05 percent of total carbon dioxide...

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