Chemicals Group Urges Senate to Abandon Superfund Tax Plan

The American Chemistry Council is calling on lawmakers to reconsider reviving a tax on hazardous waste sites as part of an infrastructure deal that is being negotiated in Congress.

The bipartisan plan includes within the pay-fors a line item to “reinstate Superfund fees for chemicals,” a potential restoration of excise taxes that expired in the mid-1990s. American Chemistry Council President and CEO Chris Jahn wrote to the Senate on Wednesday urging it to remove the provision, saying it would end up “a tax on consumers, who would be forced to pay even more for thousands of products that are ...