Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).

[摘要] This Act authorizes the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to respond to releases, or threatened releases, of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare, or the environment. The Act also enables EPA to force parties responsible for environmental contamination to clean it up or to reimburse the Superfund (created under the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act) for response or remediation costs incurred by EPA. The Act also requires EPA to revise the Haz

[发布日期] 1980-01-01

[关键词] Polluter pays principle;Pollution control;Liability/compensation;Special fund;Hazardous substances;Soil rehabilitation;Hazardous waste [时效性] Effective