What is superfund?
Superfund is part of the law that the US Congress in 1980, which does not charge fuel and industries dealing with dangerous chemicals, and seizes the government to act when it can be released or released into the environment and need to be cleaned. Superfund, however, tends to have great funds, as the name suggests, for such cleaning. Money to clean the hazardous waste must often be taken from other programs, or the responsible company must alternately provide funds and cleaning work. Cercla was enacted in a direct response to the catastrophe on the love canal. It cuts part of the bureaucracy in cleaning environmentally dangerous leaks, as the government is entitled to act immediately and be in the premises of any private society.
The initial resources obtained for The Superfund was approximately one and a half billion US dollars (USD). Superfund funds are now about eight and a half billion USD. This money remains in the FO trustNDU so that money can be obtained for them and waiting for their need to disastrous edition of chemicals. However, environmentalists argue that funds are not sufficient to deal with large environmental disasters and that one such disaster would probably exhaust funds.
Because the superfund is relatively poor, the US government often holds the company responsible and responsible for cleaning dangerous materials. Through non -threatening companies can be assessed strong fines for delaying cleaning. However, if companies lack sufficient sources to clean the leak and declare bankruptcy, there are few things to order the government to clean or not. At this point, the rule must enter and act so that the environment and humans and animals are not further exposed to toxic substances.
ordering cleaning and maintaining superfund is done at the discretion of the Agency for PotionThe Environment, founded in 1970. Superfund and Cercla certainly had some successful cleaning, but environmentalists are still afraid that the US is not prepared for the main chemical disaster, such as a nuclear power plant, similar to what is found in Chernobyl.