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  2. List of Superfund sites in Texas - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of Superfund sites in Texas 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]

  3. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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    Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped.

  4. Waste Control Specialists - Wikipedia

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    Waste Control Specialists LLC (WCS) is a treatment, storage, & disposal company dealing in radioactive, hazardous, and mixed wastes. Developed and controlled by Texas billionaire investor Harold Simmons until his death at the end of 2013, the company was founded in Dallas, Texas in 1989 as a landfill operator, and awarded a unique license for disposal of low level radioactive waste in 2009.

  5. List of landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    BKK Landfill, West Covina - Largest hazardous waste landfill in the State [2] Canal Area, San Rafael – The "East San Rafael" area (the eastern portion of the Canal Area between the Bay and San Quentin Ridge) was home to most of the garbage disposal sites in central Marin County. Chiquita Canyon Landfill, Castaic [3] Eastlake Landfill, Clearlake

  6. Nobody wants to live near nuclear waste. The Supreme Court ...

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    Texas says that’s not allowed under either the 1954 law or the Nuclear Waste Policy Act of 1982, the law that was supposed to pave the way for permanent storage in a federal facility.

  7. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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    "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed in or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

  8. Landfills in the United States - Wikipedia

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    The EPA has collected and reported data on the generation and disposal of waste in the United States for more than 30 years. [1] Recent estimates state that the amount of municipal waste disposed of in US landfills per year is about 265 million tonnes (261,000,000 long tons; 292,000,000 short tons) as of 2013. [24]

  9. Brio Superfund site - Wikipedia

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    The EPA placed the Brio site on the National Priorities List in 1984. Beginning in 1989, the EPA began remediation by demolishing buildings, digging out contaminated soils for processing or disposal, containing groundwater by use of a physical barrier, and capping the site. [1] The site was removed from the National Priorities List in 2006. [5]

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