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2. Superfund - Wikipedia

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   The EPA and state agencies use the Hazard Ranking System (HRS) to calculate a site score (ranging from 0 to 100) based on the actual or potential release of hazardous substances from a site. A score of 28.5 places a site on the National Priorities List, eligible for long-term, remedial action (i.e., cleanup) under the Superfund program.

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

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   The money also will be used to speed the cleanup of 85 ongoing Superfund projects across the United States, the EPA said. ... The tax took effect in 2022 and is set to collect up to $23 billion ...

4. Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields ...

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   Due to the issuance of the Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA/Superfund) signed 1980 and subsequent court decisions imposing cleanup liability on a wide range of entities involved with a contaminated property, people began to avoid the redevelopment, reuse, and revitalization of properties identified ...

5. Cleaning up tainted SC textile site to cost taxpayers ... - AOL

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   While the Galey and Lord cleanup is a long-term project, the agricultural fields that received sludge as fertilizer might take even longer than 10 to 20 years to cleanup, if federal officials deem ...

6. List of Superfund sites in Massachusetts - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in Massachusetts 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 contamination

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. 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]

9. Backlog of toxic Superfund clean-ups grows under Trump - AOL

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   The Trump administration has built up the biggest backlog of unfunded toxic Superfund clean-up projects in at least 15 years, nearly triple the number that were stalled for lack of money in the ...