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What is a Superfund?

What is a Superfund? Here are some definitions.

Noun
  1. (US) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act.
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Rumblings have been heard from the oil industry for a couple of years that the amount they pay in Superfund taxes is too high.
As a result, the United States Environmental Protection Agency declared the entire length of the Hudson River downstream from these plants to be a Superfund Site.
Superfund Sites: The health and ecological impacts associated with hazardous waste sites are a major concern for the general public, and site management can be a substantial financial burden.
Under the Superfund system, even a minor contribution to soil contamination can potentially lead to liability for total clean-up costs.
Making communities safer and healthier is the number-one goal at Superfund cleanups, said EPA Regional Administrator Ron Curry.
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.

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