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Electronic waste has become an ever-growing problem in the United States. Each year, over 3.2 million tons of electronic waste is put in US landfills. [7] A large portion of this electronic waste is computers, monitors, and televisions.
Environmental issues in the United States include climate change, energy, species conservation, invasive species, deforestation, mining, nuclear accidents, pesticides, pollution, waste and over-population. Despite taking hundreds of measures, the rate of environmental issues is increasing rapidly instead of reducing.
Electronic waste or e-waste in the United States refers to electronic products that have reached the end of their operable lives, and the United States is beginning to address its waste problems with regulations at a state and federal level.
Supreme Court of the United States: 1986 Chemical Waste Management, Inc. v. United States EPA: General environment: hazardous waste (disposal and reporting) 1992 Chilean–Peruvian maritime dispute: Water: sea border between Chile and Peru: International Court of Justice of the United Nations, based in The Hague, Netherlands: unresolved
As of June 6, 2024, there were 1,340 Superfund sites in the National Priorities List in the United States. [2] Thirty-nine additional sites have been proposed for entry on the list, and 457 sites have been cleaned up and removed from the list. [2] New Jersey, California, and Pennsylvania have the most sites. [3]
While the U.S. is, on the whole, a wealthy country, currently one in eight Americans is food insecure.
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On a national level, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversees a variety of waste issues under the mandate of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. These include regulation of hazardous wastes, landfill regulations, [2] and setting recycling goals. [citation needed]