If you're going to talk about the environment during a campaign, know what you're talking about:

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Given Sen. John Kerry's supposed grounding in all things environmental, you'd think he'd have his facts straight. This week, Kerry spent time in New Hampshire, attempting to play the "Green" card with voters looking for a pro-environment candidate.

Kerry and his staff chose to hold an event at the University of New Hampshire, where he would lay out his plan to clean up the environment. Key among his goals was to "leverage Superfund cleanup dollars," he told an enthusiastic crowd of granola munchers.

Only problem is, there is little money in the Superfund account. Instead, cleanups today are being financed by fines and civil penalties imposed by prosecution of polluters. And Kerry failed to mention that the Bush administration has collected more fines and civil penalties in the past two years than the Clinton administration did in the final four years of its time in control of the Justice Department and EPA.

As someone in the business of cleaning up Superfund sites, business is absolutely booming. The company I work for is currently finishing up one site and starting another. That's in New Jersey alone. Two other sites in the state are in the process of being remediated by other companies.