Energy companies may be taxed to help pay for Superfund sites

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to reinstate a tax on energy companies to pay for environmental disasters cleaned through the federal Superfund program.

 
BY HAILEY R. BRANSON | Published: June 22, 2010   

The Environmental Protection Agency is trying to reinstate a tax on oil and gas companies to pay for environmental disasters cleaned through the federal Superfund program.

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The EPA on Monday called for Congress to reinstate the tax, which lapsed in 1995. If done, the tax would in part place a 9.7-cent per barrel excise tax on crude oil or refined oil...
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