Parts of Camp Lejeune have been included on the EPA's Superfund list of contaminated sites.
The precedent: the Superfund Act, which forced companies to pay for toxic cleanup years after the fact.
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So I will make sure that somebody follows up directly with your tribe on this Superfund site.
Superfund legislation, which covers the cleanup of toxic waste, is also up for reauthorization, but is paralyzed.
Environmentalists have long been pressing for additional dredging of contaminated sections outside the Superfund site north of Albany.
It is a vast military-industrial park, resembling a northern New Jersey superfund site.
But the governor ruled out that locale, a former arms factory and a Superfund site, in an analysis last week.
The Quapaw Tribe has the honor of having the largest Superfund site in the United States -- it's Tar Creek Superfund site.
As an example of the weakness of the old way, the authors cite the Superfund, America's controversial attempt to clean up toxic waste.
Congress is due to debate the reauthorisation of two bits of green legislation, the Endangered Species Act and Superfund, which deals with contaminated land.
We will seek reauthorization and expanded funding for the Superfund program to continue cleaning up hazardous waste sites which threaten human health and the environment.
Jackson worked in the EPA's notorious Superfund program for many years.
Cox said Gore helped strengthen clean air health standards, sped clean up of Superfund toxic waste sites, reduced automobile tailpipe pollution, and protected America's spectacular landscapes.
On the environment, Capuano will push for more money to clean up superfund sites and will oppose efforts to roll back air and water pollution standards.
"It's not clean water there, " said Linda Mariano, the 69-year-old co-founder of Friends and Residents of Greater Gowanus, a group that supports the area's Superfund status.
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And by design, Recovery Act work on roads, bridges, water systems, Superfund sites, broadband networks, and clean energy projects will all be ramping up in the months ahead.
The forthcoming debates over Superfund and the Endangered Species Act both raise awkward questions about how to balance protection of the environment against the rights of property owners.
Just one of 28 microchip-related Superfund sites in Silicon Valley.
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But they are also likely to promote bigger proposals, like health-insurance protection for the first six months of unemployment, educational reforms to benefit the disabled, and Superfund toxic-waste cleanup.
They will pass federal Superfund sites and will see, for the most part, a riverfront vastly different from that which the first excursionists gazed at so ardently 150 years earlier.
"What GE is doing on the Hudson and most of its PCB and Superfund sites around the country completely contradicts the image Immelt is trying to foist on the public, " says Alex F.
The Brownfields law was a big change to the Superfund law, which had held property owners strictly liable for lingering contamination, whether they caused it or not, and forced them to pay huge cleanup bills.
However, there is quite a big obstacle to creating a public sector superfund, which is that each of the separate schemes has its own trust deed and trustees - and getting them to agree to merge would not be easy.
And I would like to ask you to come visit it and see the devastation caused by this management of tribal resources, and help elevate tribes to the same level of states when we're dealing with the remediation of Superfund sites so we can have the same voice as the state in designing a better future and environment for our people.
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