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  2. Superfund - Wikipedia

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    The initial Superfund trust fund to clean up sites where a polluter could not be identified, could not or would not pay (bankruptcy or refusal), consisted of about $1.6 billion [15] and then increased to $8.5 billion. [4] Initially, the framework for implementing the program came from the oil and hazardous substances National Contingency Plan.

  3. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  4. National Priorities List - Wikipedia

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    The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 (CERCLA), also known as "Superfund", requires that the criteria provided by the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) be used to make a list of national priorities of the known releases or threatened releases of hazardous substances, pollutants, or contaminants in the United States. [2]

  5. EPA awards $1 billion to clean up toxic waste in third cash ...

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    Twenty-five toxic waste sites in 15 states are to be cleaned up, and ongoing work at dozens of others will get a funding boost, as the Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday announced a $1 ...

  6. List of Superfund sites in New Mexico - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in New Mexico 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]

  7. Superfund designations could fuel PFAS litigation, enforcement

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    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 ...

  8. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in California 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 ...

  9. Chemicals at $75M Superfund cleanup site leak into Tri ... - AOL

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    The landfill property, which is a U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Superfund site, covers about 200 acres and is surrounded by agriculture and commercial businesses.