ENSP 102 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Cradle To Grave, Superfund, Love Canal
28 Mar 2019
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Mining waste and dam collapse in brazil, january 2019. Manages current waste disposal from cradle to grave, focuses on. Balancing environmental protection against cost to industry of compliance. How to regulate what was previously dumped. Comprehensive environmental response compensation and liability act (cercla or. Rcra involves present waste management and disposal, cercla deals with cleaning up past disposal of hazardous waste. Authorizes epa to identify and clean up hazardous waste disposal sites until responsible party can be located. Initially came from a tax on oil and chemical companies that has expired, now taxpayers. Liability for clean up then passed on to responsible parties. March 2019-epa announced that it has deleted all or part of 22 sites from the. National priorities list (the largest number since 2005) Closest superfund site to us: beltsville agricultural research center (usda) in beltsville, Conflicting data on risks from these sites and effectiveness of clean up.
