E-P-A projects hazardous waste sites growing in number and cleanup costs
WASHINGTON The Environmental Protection Agency estimates there are 77-thousand sites contaminated with hazardous waste and petroleum products in the country, and that number is growing by more than nine thousand each year. At the rate, the agency is projecting there could be 355-thousand hazardous waste sites in the county by 2039.
And it says at the current cleanup pace, it'll take 35 years and 280 (b) billion dollars to fix them.
The figures are a part of a new report that describes what taxpayers and private companies will have to pay to clean up the sites.
However, an environmental advocacy group says the report should be viewed with "extreme skepticism."
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