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Reports on renewed efforts by U.S. congressional leaders and environmental groups to reauthorize the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, know as Superfund. How Superfund was passed in 1980 to help solve the hazardous waste site problems in the U.S.; Controversy over the size of the fund, responsibility of the cleanup programs, remedies for victims of exposure, and the state share of cleanup costs; Estimated cost to the Environmental Protection Agency.

Discusses the government data obtained by the Center for Science in the Public Interest, which implied that farmers are routinely planting more insect-resistant genetically modified (GM) corn than the allowable capacity of the U.S. federal regulations. Recommendations from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency regarding GM corns in the U.S.; Violations imposed against GM corn farms in Iowa, Minnesota and Nebraska.