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To print this article, all you need is to be registered or login on Mondaq.com. We close out the Corporate Environmental Lawyer Blog's weeklong celebration of Earth Day with the two federal programs aimed at cleaning up existing toxic waste sites and preventing the creation of new ones: the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act of 1980 ("CERCLA") and the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act ("RCRA"). The Trump Administration considered the remedial and regulatory roles of the CERCLA and RCRA programs as core EPA functions, so it did no...

Activists Eye a Superfund Reboot Under Biden With a Focus on Environmental Justice and Climate Change The EPA’s program for cleaning up the nation’s hazardous waste dumps has a backlog of sites that lack funding—the largest in 15 years. By David Hasemyer and Lise Olsen December 28, 2020 Related Share this article Super Threats: Last in a series with The Texas Observer and NBC News about Superfund sites and climate change. The uber challenge facing the incoming Biden administration’s Environmental Protection Agency in its oversight of 1,570 hazard waste sites is best summed in a ...