The reauthorization of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act ("CERCLA") affords Congress and the states with the opportunity to clean-up numerous sites that have been contaminated by oil and gas waste. In this article I review CERCLA's statutory scheme and urge...

As an issue of global importance, this article aims to focus on the international toxic waste trade to African countries. International toxic waste trade “involves the trans-boundary movement of hazardous substances from one country to another.” Its bearing on environmental justice stems...

Federal hazardous waste regulation and cleanup programs suffer from poor prioritization, insufficient flexibility, high costs, and questionable benefits. Many of these problems are a result of excessive regulatory centralization. With the enactment of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act...

TABLE OF CONTENTSIntroduction 192I. Cleaning Up Contaminated Sites 200A. Program Accomplishments 205B. NPL Listings/Deletions 206C. Construction Complete 209D. Government Performance Results Act Measures 210E. Removal Actions 212II. Paying for Cleanup: Taxes and Liability 213A. Superfund Trust...

Courts, Congress, and commentators commonly justify the imposition of civil liability on non-blameworthy individuals by citing various societal imperatives once described Justice Holmes as "intuitions of public policy." The current debate over reforming the federal Superfund law illustrates the...

The text analyses the concepts of waste and memory in both the strict environmental sense and its abstract legal sense. The first, environmental waste, is contextualised in the production of waste in the urban setting, and it is argued, along with Baudrillard, that the city is geared towards the...