Dear Friends,   It’s simple: If you pollute—you should pay! That includes when it comes to cleaning up Superfund sites: abandoned, highly toxic, hazardous waste locations left behind by chemical, oil, and gas companies.   These sites are a danger to communities across the country, with more than 1,000 Superfund sites in the United States, including more than a dozen in Oregon. Yet taxpayers, not polluters, have been on the hook for cleaning up these messes after conservatives let the Superfund tax, which makes polluters pay, expire in 1995.   For far too many years, the public has been paying to clean up sites that polluters have abandoned, while they continue to pose a threat to our most vulnerable communities. It is past time to change this—corporations that pollute our communities ought to pay to clean up their mess. It is just that simple.  My legislation to make chemical polluters pay to clean up their mess was signed into law by President Biden as part of the Bipartisan Infrastructure Investment and Jobs Act. The Build Back Better Act, which passed the House also includes my legislation taxing oil and gas polluters and now is waiting approval by the Senate.   These policies will once again force polluters to pay their fair share—they made this mess, it’s time they help us clean it up.  I will continue to advocate for the Senate to step up and pass the Build Back Better Act to force oil and gas polluters to pay clean up the mess they made.