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Superfund, or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act as it's formally known, is a United States environmental policy enacted as a response to the Love Canal disaster.
The program was begun on December 11, 1980 by the United States Congress in an effort to protect people from abandoned toxic waste sites.
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Fast Facts
- 1,240 sites on registry
- Controlled by EPA's Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER)
- 10 regional offices
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National Priorities List
"The NPL is the list of national priorities among the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants throughout the United States and its territories. The NPL is intended primarily to guide the EPA in determining which sites warrant further investigation. From this web site, you can locate NPL sites, check their cleanup progress, and get information on new and proposed NPL sites." ~NPL -
Picher, Oklahoma
Picher, OK is the site of one of the most toxic locations in the United States.The town was once a booming lead and zinc mining location but has since become an environmental disaster and a Superfund site due to the leftover waste from the mines.
Picher was hit by a tornado on May 10, 2008 killing six people and bringing Superfund sites back to public attention.
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Superfund Sites
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Wikipedia: Superfund
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Official Site: Superfund - US EPA
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Universtiy of Cincinnati: Superfund Basic Research Program
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Scorecard: Superfund Report for Entire Unites States
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Superfund365: A Site a Day
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Article: Help Arrives for Twister Survivors
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Superfund Sites
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Superfund lawsuit near settlement: Public, judge must OK agreement http://bit.ly/Vc4uE #green #ecofriendly
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MOTTOLO SUPERFUND SITE TO RECEIVE EPA FUNDING FOR WATER MONITORING PROGRAM http://twurl.nl/cwrbn1
@USSenateNews | November 13, 2009 10:24 PM -
Libby MT community fighting for reimbursement for city buildings demolished due to Superfund contamination: http://bit.ly/fhydC
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Committee IDs advisory board members at the Tittabawassee River, Saginaw River & Bay Superfund Site: Alexan... http://bit.ly/4d4grR
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Superfund on Amazon | View All
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Hazardous Waste Superfund Alert - $667.00
Covers the legal, business and technical developments in the hazardous materials transportation industry.
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Privileged Polluters: The Case Against Exempting Municipalities from Superfund - $2.95
18-page monograph explains why municipal governments should not be given the special exemption they are seeking from the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA, a/k/a "Superfund").
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Reclaiming the Land: Rethinking Superfund Institutions, Methods and Practices - $89.95
Nearly thirty years after creation of the most advanced and expensive hazardous waste cleanup infrastructure in the world, Reclaiming the Land provides a much-needed lens through which the Superfund program should be assessed and reshaped. ...
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