Word: cleanups
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...required by law to make regulatory decisions without regard to the cost of implementing them, and Browner, in her typical up-front fashion, acknowledged from the start that the cost of the new standards will be high--up to $8.5 billion a year, according to agency estimates. Yet the cleanup will, by her calculations, also save 15,000 lives, cut hospital admissions for respiratory illness by 9,000 and reduce chronic bronchitis cases by 60,000 each year. Surely that is worth a few billion...
Since the Vice President took office, the Energy Department's cleanup division, headed until recently by a Gore protege, has awarded Haney's Molten Metal Technology $33 million to test its process on the poisoned remains of nuclear-weapons proving grounds--more money than 17 other companies have received collectively to do the same job. More startling is that the department kept lavishing dollars on the firm until this March, despite the advice of the government's own experts who, according to documents obtained by TIME, repeatedly challenged the effectiveness of Molten Metal's technology. They recommended the funding...
...years, helped finance his campaigns and chaired the Clinton-Gore re-election effort in 1996. In Knight, Haney also had a solid link to Tom Grumbly, who worked for Gore in the 1980s and became the assistant Energy Department secretary in charge of its multibillion-dollar nuclear-waste cleanup program. From where he stood between Haney and Grumbly, Knight came up with a fruitful arrangement: he began lobbying the Gore appointee on behalf of the businessman he was soliciting for Gore campaign cash...
...circle widened after Molten Metal joined forces with another Knight client, the defense contractor Lockheed Martin, to pursue cleanup contracts. That company gave $100,000 to the Democratic Party last June. Three months later, the new partners were awarded a $27 million contract from Grumbly's staff to propose a clean-up strategy for one of the nation's most polluted nuclear sites, in Richland, Wash. The contract qualified the companies to bid later for the $5 billion cleanup...
Huling hadn't finished burning the Minutemen. After senior Bart Brush loaded the bases in relief of Wells with two outs in the top of the sixth, Huling came on to face UMass cleanup hitter Doug Clark. Huling worked across two strikes, then got Clark to ground out down the first-base line...