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Historically about 70 percent of Superfund cleanup activities have been paid for by potentially responsible party (PRPs). When the party either cannot be found or is unable to pay for the cleanup, the Superfund law originally paid for site cleanups through an excise tax on petroleum and chemical manufacturers.
The money also will be used to speed the cleanup of 85 ongoing Superfund projects across the United States, the EPA said. ... The tax took effect in 2022 and is set to collect up to $23 billion ...
The principle is employed in all of the major US pollution control laws: Clean Air Act, [15] [16] Clean Water Act, [17] Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (solid waste and hazardous waste management), [3] and Superfund (cleanup of abandoned waste sites). [3] Some eco-taxes underpinned by the polluter pays principle include:
Due to the issuance of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA/Superfund) signed 1980 and subsequent court decisions imposing cleanup liability on a wide range of entities involved with a contaminated property, people began to avoid the redevelopment, reuse, and revitalization of properties identified ...
The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund clean-up projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the ...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has designated two of the most commonly used "forever chemicals" as hazardous substances under the federal Superfund law, in a bid to clean up properties ...
A map of Superfund sites as of October 2013. Red indicates currently on final National Priority List, yellow is proposed, green is deleted (usually meaning having been cleaned up). Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills ...
OLD BRIDGE – The township may have to pay $21.1 million to the federal Environmental Protection Agency as its share in the $151 million cleanup of the Raritan Bay Slag Superfund Site.