The Nation - News from Feb. 27, 1986

House and Senate Superfund negotiators differed sharply in their first meeting to produce legislation renewing and expanding the cash-starved toxic cleanup program. Senate leaders opened the session by urging both sides to push for a compromise Superfund bill by March 21 but warning that two new initiatives in the House-passed bill could stall the conference. The House provisions would attack the growing problem of leaking underground storage tanks and set up a liability fund to compensate for damages caused by oil spilled on the nation’s waterways.