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1 online resource (xiv, 334 pages) : illustrations |
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1. Toxic Debts. Methodology. Synopsis -- 2. Production, Disposal, and Contamination. Hazardous Waste and Chemical Feedstocks. Hazardous Waste and Industry. Hazardous Waste and Contamination. The Nation's Worst Sites? A Final Comment -- 3. Conflict, Regulation, and the State. Market Failure and State Intervention. Superfund Issues. Who Benefits? Who Pays? Political Economy of Regulation. Superfund Failure -- 4. Congress and the Reagan EPA. The Environmental Decade. Legislating Superfund. The Cleanup and Liability Debate. The Superfund Act. Superfund and the Reagan Era. Administration of Superfund Failure -- 5. Superfund and the States. RCRA and Superfund. Federal/State Interdependence. State Authority and Funding. Conflict over Funding and Enforcement. Interdependence and Failure. Appendix: Funding and Enforcement -- 6. EPA Regions: Implementing Superfund. The Region's World. Site Lead Responsibilities. Progress at Fund and Enforcement Sites. Regional Discretion and Constraint |
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Appendix: Regional Outcomes -- 7. Roots of Superfund Failure. Measuring Superfund Progress. Progress in Fund-Financed Activity. Progress in Enforcement Activity. Roots of Failure. Appendix: Determinants of Progress -- 8. Redesigning Superfund. The Reauthorization Debate. Reauthorization Issues. Superfund Hiatus. Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA). Political Economy of SARA -- 9. Ending a Decade of False Starts. Failure to Implement SARA, 1986-1989. To Redirect or Redesign? Redirecting Superfund. Superfund into the 1990s. Balancing National Priorities -- 10. Solving the Superfund Dilemma. Political Economy of Failure. Forging Compromise |
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Environment Pollution Toxic chemicals Control |
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United States |
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Includes bibliographical references (pages 305-316) and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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| Subject |
United States. Environmental Protection Agency.
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| SUBJECT |
United States. Environmental Protection Agency fast |
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Hazardous waste site remediation -- Finance -- Government policy -- United States
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Environmental policy -- United States
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TECHNOLOGY & ENGINEERING -- Environmental -- Pollution Control.
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Hazardous waste site remediation -- Finance -- Government policy
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Environmental policy
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Sonderabfall
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Umweltpolitik
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Sonderabfallbeseitigung
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Finanzierung
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United States
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USA
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Electronic book
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| ISBN |
0585027943 |
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9780585027944 |
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0807860247 |
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9780807860243 |
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9798890864550 |
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