Toxic debts and the superfund dilemma /
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| Language: | English |
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Chapel Hill :
University of North Carolina Press,
©1994.
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Table of Contents:
- 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.
- 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.