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Another law winding through the state legislature, Senate Bill 684 — known as the “Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act” — would require fossil fuel polluters to pay for their share of damages and disasters caused by their emissions.

The executive order additionally could impact California’s Polluters Pay Climate Superfund Act of 2025, a bill currently working its way through the state Legislature that would require fossil fuel companies to pay for damage caused by their greenhouse gas emissions.

“Temptation Island,” an EPA Superfund site among trashy romance competition shows, predates all of these.

While the right to know is a general principle used in various contexts, in the United States it has been codified in the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, authorized in 1986 by Title III of the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act.

“We have a sense of urgency,” said Michael Montgomery, director of the EPA’s Region 9 Superfund division, at the meeting.