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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]
The Tennessee Highway Patrol, however, is looking for missing people, Hughes said. While working through a debris field yesterday, the search and rescue team found a casket.
A Richland recycling station has closed after becoming a dumping destination for tenants moving out of nearby apartments at the end of each month.
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 continued illegal dumping can create more disruption in workings of the plant and cause the odor to linger. ... The Today Show. Hilary Duff's 12-year-old son joins her for rare red carpet outing.
Antifreeze products for automotive use containing propylene glycol in place of ethylene glycol are available, and are generally considered safer to use, as it possesses an unpleasant taste in contrast to the perceived "sweet" taste of toxic ethylene glycol-based coolants, and produces only lactic acid in an animal's body, as their muscles do ...
In the U.S., the biggest polluters are often concentrated in underserved, mostly minority communities.
Other towns and cities soon followed suit, and today many cities in the United States make recycling a requirement. In 1987, the Mobro 4000 barge hauled garbage from New York to North Carolina; where it was denied. It was then sent to Belize, where it was denied as well. Finally, the barge returned to New York and the garbage was incinerated.