Word: cleanups
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...High taxes would mean either tremendous revenues, curtailed demand, or both. If people kept buying guns, at least the government would have more money to fight gun-related crime. Just as cigarettes and alcohol bear hefty "sin taxes," so should this problematic product. But wait, why concentrate on the cleanup rather than the prevention? A full-scale ban would stem the supply of guns much more effectively, but it remains to be seen whether Congress will act so decisively...
...River, which waters farms and ranches in the San Luis Valley. After a required bond for reclamation costs was raised from $2.2 million to $7.2 million, Galactic Resources Ltd., the mine's Canadian owner, abruptly declared bankruptcy and walked away last December. Summitville is now a Superfund site, and cleanup may run as high as $100 million...
Crown Butte claims to have risked about $30 million so far in exploration and environmental cleanup. What it would gain is clear; about half of the $1 billion in ore is thought to be recoverable. What the northern Rockies would gain is less certain. Yellowstone Park's fragile buffer forests would suffer more industrial invasion, if not environmental damage. Montana would get a small royalty payment, but Wyoming, which would absorb most of the social impact, would get nothing. There is no large population of unemployed miners in the area, which is getting along fairly well from tourism. Peter Aengst...
Uncle Sam's big toxic cleanup is a failure -- and a legal nightmare...
This uncertainty produces the bizarre result that cleanup goals differ by site. In the South Cavalcade site near Houston, for instance, officials accept 700 times as much contamination by pah (polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons) as they do on the North Cavalcade site, even though the sites are separated only by a highway...