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This is a list of Superfund sites in Kentucky 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]
This article lists subnational environmental agencies in the United States, by state.Agencies that are responsible for state-level regulating, monitoring, managing, and protecting environmental and public health concerns.
It houses the state's Department for Environmental Protection, Department for Natural Resources, Office of Energy Policy and the Office of Kentucky Nature Preserves. The cabinet is responsible for a range of environmental regulatory duties in the commonwealth, including protection of air and water, waste management, permitting for mining ...
A view of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) headquarters on March 16, 2017 in Washington, DC.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order . [ 3 ]
The EPA analyzed the property and creek, finding high levels of heavy metals, polychlorinated biphenyls, and some 140 other chemical substances. The same year, the EPA initiated an emergency cleanup of the worst leaking drums. Workers on the ground quickly realized that the scope of the problem was far beyond their abilities.
Henderson County is a county in the U.S. state of Kentucky.The county is located in western Kentucky on the Ohio River across from Evansville, Indiana.As of the 2020 census, the population was 44,793. [1]
The spill was 30 times larger than the Exxon Valdez oil spill (12 million US gallons (45,000 m 3)) and one of the worst environmental disasters ever in the southeastern United States, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.