CERCLA/ Superfund
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) was set forth in 1980 in response to the Love Canal incident in New York. CERCLA is an act that works to clean up abandoned hazardous waste sites which release pollutants into the environment. The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is the organization that is federally responsible for identifying and monitoring the cleanup of Superfund sites. These sites can cause health risks to humans usually drawing attention to them. In the Kalamazoo Superfund site, PCBs cause a potential risk to human health. The EPA works at the Kalamazoo Superfund site in conjunction with state and regional interest groups. Sites identified are often called Superfund sites, due to a collective fund which contains taxpayer money to use towards remediation. However this general fund no longer exists due to new regulations.
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