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This is a list of Superfund sites in Tennessee designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
Similar from state-to-state, these laws define who violators are, the type or "function" of the person committing the action, and what items must be littered or dumped to constitute an illegal act. Municipal ordinances and state statutes require a "human action" in committing illegal littering or dumping, for one to be "held in violation." Most ...
The Benton fireworks disaster was an industrial disaster that occurred on May 27, 1983, on a farm near Benton, Tennessee.A powerful explosion at an unlicensed fireworks factory producing illegal fireworks killed eleven and injured one, revealing the existence of the factory for the first time to law enforcement and the public.
Fayetteville resident Michael Spellman said illegal dumping is a problem in his neighborhood. Here's what the city is doing to address the problem.
Companies allegedly initiated so-called ‘dry spills’ 388 times in 2022, even during periods of drought and on the hottest day on record
Hooper said that data was very revealing how fast the dumping was duplicated. “That is a very quick regeneration of the waste and shows that we do not have a problem with cleaning up illegal ...
The Valley of the Drums, a toxic waste dump in northern Bullitt County, Kentucky. In the United States, the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Hazardous wastes are defined under RCRA in 40 CFR 261 and divided into two major categories: characteristic and listed.
A Mt. Juliet construction firm is accused of bungling the development of a new Bellevue apartment complex and illegally dumping piles of rock, dirt and building debris into a stream near the site.