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Not-So-Super Superfund: Cercla’S Biggest Issues, Cameron Berthiaume
Not-So-Super Superfund: Cercla’S Biggest Issues, Cameron Berthiaume
Scholarly Horizons: University of Minnesota, Morris Undergraduate Journal
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA/Superfund) is a federal law that allows the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to clean up contaminated sites and hold the parties responsible for the contamination financially liable. However, CERCLA faces a number of challenges to fulfilling its mission. This report examines some of the biggest issues facing the law in the past and present.