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Here is a press release from the Center for Public Integrity.

 Center for Public Integrity to Release Study of EPA's
'Superfund Revolving Door' at Press Conference April 21
 To: National and Assignment Desks, Environment Writer
 Contact: Charles Lewis of the Center for Public Integrity,
          202-223-0299

   News Advisory:

   "Toxic Temptation: The Revolving Door, Bureaucratic Inertia and
the Disappointment of the EPA Superfund Program," is an
investigative Center for Public Integrity study about the
multi-billion dollar program to clean up America's worst toxic
waste sites.
   This report, written by Eric Greenberg, is the first in-depth
look at the post-employment career patterns of the top
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) officials who have handled
hazardous waste issues and left government since 1980.  This study
reveals startling new information about EPA's relationship to
corporate polluters.  The Superfund program is up for
reauthorization next year, and Congress has already begun to hold
hearings.  This study is being released on the eve of Earth Day.
   The findings of this 12th center study will be discussed on
Wednesday, April 21, at 9:30 a.m., at the National Press Club, in
the Edward R. Murrow Room.
   The Superfund program is a promise unfulfilled.  Out of the more
than 1,200 emergency hazardous waste sites in the country on the
Superfund National Priority List (NPL), despite billions of dollars
spent, fewer than 9 percent of them have been cleaned up.
Meanwhile, millions of Americans, in virtually every part of the
United States, continue to live around abandoned toxic waste sites
that leak hazardous chemicals and heavy metals into the air and
groundwater.
   In addition to the actual clean-up record, the Superfund has
been plagued for years by fraud, political manipulation,
influence peddling and contractor terrorism.
   "Are the regulators and the regulated sufficiently separate?"
said Charles Lewis, executive director of the Center for Public
Integrity.  "Has the EPA aggressively collected cleanup costs from
the corporate polluters?"
   The study attempts to answer these and many other questions.
More than half of the publication consists of biographical profiles
of the top 24 men and women who handled toxic waste issues at the
EPA since 1980 and subsequently left the government.
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