At the very least, he said in an interview, legislative mistakes like the inordinately expensive 1980 Superfund law should be much harder to make.

One was the 1980 Superfund law ordering a nationwide cleanup of chemical dumps.

"The Superfund law is not designed to get things done," he said.

The Superfund law was created in response to the situation.

A problem with dealing with the cost of pollution cleanup required by the Superfund law?

Albany also needs to pass a good Superfund law and reform the Rockefeller drug laws.

The Superfund law was last amended in 1986.

Such a reaction is not what Congress, environmentalists or cities and states intended when the Superfund law was passed in 1980.

Typically, under the Superfund law, major industrial companies that are easy to identify as sources of waste for the site negotiate a cleanup plan.

Yet the end of the tax does not alter the limit on liability that the oil industry continues to enjoy under the Superfund law.