1.   Attempts to revamp the Superfund law, which governs toxic waste cleanup efforts, died in the Senate on Thursday because of Republican opposition.

2.   -- Authority for the superfund toxic waste cleanup is about to expire.

3.   -- Superfund energy waste cleanup taxes on petroleum and chemical companies.

4.   Four other Clean Harbors employees have died on the job during off-site waste cleanups in Rhode Island, Maine, New York and Maryland, company records indicate.

5.   Gov. George Pataki on Tuesday named a former deputy commissioner who helped devise his policy on toxic waste cleanup to head the state Department of Environmental Conservation.

6.   He cited measures to toughen lobbying laws, create internal congressional reforms and to streamline Superfund, the toxic waste cleanup law.

7.   If any of the bills move next year, it is likely to be the reform of the Superfund toxic waste cleanup program.

8.   It also has promising future applications in water and soil detoxification, nuclear waste cleanup and the containment of industrial spills.

9.   Separately, look for Clinton to try to revive a Superfund energy waste cleanup tax on petroleum and chemical companies in his budget proposal or later in the year.

10.   Solar panels would be a good use for sites in the Superfund waste cleanup program, he said.