NEWS FROM THE HOUSE.

This article reports that Representative John D. Dingell, chair of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and two other House Democrats, urged the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to push for superfunding in a letter sent on September 12, 2007. They questioned the agency's progress on Superfund cleanups at National Priorities List sites. The letter also notes the alarming downward spiral in the past six years in achieving construction completion and the lack of progress to a serious funding shortfall.