Prevention (CDC), and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), as well as state environmental and public health agencies, sent scientists to the region to begin assessing the environmental and human health impact of the disaster. Much of what they found was presented on October 20 at a meeting of the National Academies Institute of Medicine’s Roundtable on Environmental Health Sciences, Research, and Medicine (commonly known as the EHSRT), supported by the NIEHS, the CDC, the EPA, Exxon-Mobile Corporation, the American Chemistry Council, and the Brita Water Research Institute. Communities that are disproportionately exposed to environmental hazards across the board are also disproportionately affected by the ineffectiveness of
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Superfund is essentially broken and if it is to be repaired, it must be completely reformed. Federal agencies, state governments, and the private sector must be relieved of the ill-conceived, unnecessary, and expensive burdens of the program. Specifically, the reformed CERCLA should at least, Turn authority for current NPL sites over to the states with the necessary funding. To qualify for funds, states should be required to meet two conditions. The first condition would be to prioritize sites and expenditures based on real risks and the second condition would be to try to eliminate joint and unequal liabilities completely. The funding would also address in eliminating retroactive liability for wastes disposed of before 1987 for sites cleaned with federal funds. Another important aspect to think about when developing a proper reform version of Superfund would be to use funds for any of their most serious hazardous waste sites, not just for NPL government
Superfund is essentially broken and if it is to be repaired, it must be completely reformed. Federal agencies, state governments, and the private sector must be relieved of the ill-conceived, unnecessary, and expensive burdens of the program. Specifically, the reformed CERCLA should at least, Turn authority for current NPL sites over to the states with the necessary funding. To qualify for funds, states should be required to meet two conditions. The first condition would be to prioritize sites and expenditures based on real risks and the second condition would be to try to eliminate joint and unequal liabilities completely. The funding would also address in eliminating retroactive liability for wastes disposed of before 1987 for sites cleaned with federal funds. Another important aspect to think about when developing a proper reform version of Superfund would be to use funds for any of their most serious hazardous waste sites, not just for NPL government