CERCLA Primer
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Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Liability for environmental damages
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Author :
Publisher : American Bar Association
Page : 56 pages
File Size : 32,64 MB
Release : 1995
Category : Liability for environmental damages
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Author : United States. Environmental Protection Agency. Office of Emergency and Remedial Response
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Page : 540 pages
File Size : 26,52 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Hazardous waste site remediation
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Author : Idaho State Bar. Meeting
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Page : pages
File Size : 12,24 MB
Release : 1994
Category : Hazardous waste sites
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Author : Richard A. Ranous
Publisher : Transportation Research Board
Page : 196 pages
File Size : 35,94 MB
Release : 2012
Category : Technology & Engineering
ISBN : 0309258766
"TRB's Hazardous Materials Cooperative Research Program (HMCRP) Report 9: A Compendium of Best Practices and Lessons Learned for Improving Local Community Recovery from Disastrous Hazardous Materials Transportation Incidents explores how local communities can develop or improve recovery planning and operations in response to hazardous materials transportation incidents"--Publisher's description.
Author : Katherine N. Probst
Publisher : Brookings Institution Press
Page : 194 pages
File Size : 11,74 MB
Release : 2010-12-01
Category : Business & Economics
ISBN : 9780815715689
One of the difficulties associated with Superfund—the federal government's program for cleaning up toxic waste sites in the United States—is the poor understanding we have about who is actually bearing its costs. While it is known that the tax on chemical and petroleum feedstocks raises about $570 million annually for the Superfund Trust Fund and the corporate environmental tax raises another $460 millino each year, further reliable data are only now becoming available. Researchers are beginning to understand how much potentially responsible parties and their insurers are spending on both transaction costs and on-site cleanups. Unfortunately, this is only the first part of the puzzle. Ultimately, these costs are borne by individuals--as consumers of the products or services provided or as share- or bond-holders, employees, or managers of the company. To date, no one has attempted to estimate the distribution of initial costs under the Superfund liability system or examined carefully the indirect effects of the costs of the Superfund program on other industries. In this book, the authors develop information on who pays the costs and who bears the burden under the current liability scheme in Superfund on a site-by-site basis. They look at short-term financial implications of changes in liability and taxes on key sectors affected by Superfund: chemicals, oil, mining, wood preserving, and commercial property-casualty insurers. They analyze the incidence of different taxing mechanisms and compare and contrast the financial effects on specific industries of the current Superfund program and of several alternative lability and tax-based funding mechanisms available. The alternative liability approaches examined include a scenario in which liability is eliminated for all sites created before Superfund was enacted, as well as a scenario in which parties are released from liability at sites where municipal and industrial wastes were codisposed. Because any change in liability will require a corollary change in trust fund revenues, the authors also assess the economic implications of a variety of taxes that could be used to finance the creation of a larger trust fund for site cleanups. These include an increase in the corporate environmental tax and the implemenation of new taxes, such as an excise tax on commercial insurance. Don Fullerton is a professor of economics and public policy at Carnegie Mellon, H. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and Management. Robert E. Litan, is a senior fellow at Brookings, and formerly was deputy assistant attorney general in the Antitrust Division of the U.S. Department of Justice. Paul R. Portney is vice president and senior fellow at resources for the Future. Katherine N. Probst is a fellow in the Center for Risk Management at Resources for the Future.
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 49,35 MB
Release : 1987
Category : Actions and defenses
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Author : Paul Craig Roberts
Publisher : Crown
Page : 290 pages
File Size : 14,68 MB
Release : 2008-03-25
Category : Political Science
ISBN : 0307396061
In this updated and expanded edition of The Tyranny of Good Intentions, Paul Craig Roberts and Lawrence M. Stratton renew their valiant campaign to reclaim that which is rightly ours–liberty protected by the rule of law. They show how crusading legislators and unfair prosecutors are remaking American law into a weapon wielded by the government and how the erosion of the legal principles we hold dear–such as habeas corpus and the prohibition against self-incrimination–is destroying the presumption of innocence. A new introduction and new chapters cover recent marquee cases and make this provocative book essential reading for anyone who cringes at the thought of unbridled state power and sees our civil liberties slowly slipping away in the name of the War on Drugs, the War on Crime, and the War on Terror.
Author : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Banking, Finance, and Urban Affairs. Subcommittee on Policy Research and Insurance
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Page : 572 pages
File Size : 25,65 MB
Release : 1991
Category : Business & Economics
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Author : Morton Lippmann
Publisher : John Wiley & Sons
Page : 1189 pages
File Size : 41,40 MB
Release : 2009-03-26
Category : Science
ISBN : 0470442883
Provides the most current information and research available for performing risk assessments on exposed individuals and populations, giving guidance to public health authorities, primary care physicians, and industrial managers Reviews current knowledge on human exposure to selected chemical agents and physical factors in the ambient environment Updates and revises the previous edition, in light of current scientific literature and its significance to public health concerns Includes new chapters on: airline cabin exposures, arsenic, endocrine disruptors, and nanoparticles
Author : United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on the Judiciary
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Page : 646 pages
File Size : 44,3 MB
Release : 1986
Category : Environmental protection
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