Hazardous Waste Cleanup, Liability, and Litigation: A Comprehensive Guide to Superfund Law

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This practical work guides the reader through superfund law. "Superfund" is the common name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act, which established a national programme for cleaning up the nation's abandoned and uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. Superfund changed the way the United States conducts business by imposing substantial liability on present and past owners and operators of contaminated sites and on generators and transporters of hazardous substances to those sites. By examining the superfund liability scheme, Fogleman provides businesses and individuals with the necessary knowledge to aid them avoid superfund liability. She provides a road map through the superfund programme, the Environmental Protection Agency's enforcement and settlement procedures, and superfund litigation. After reviewing the legislative history of superfund and its amendments, Valerie M.Fogleman examines the superfund programme from discovery of a contaminated site through its cleaning. She describes the EPA's enforcement and settlement procedures, and superfund litigation by governmental and nongovernmental entities. Fogleman analyzes superfund liability and defences to liability of persons and entities that are potentially responsible for conducting or bearing the cost of cleanups and damages to natural resources. These potentially responsible parties include almost all persons and entities in the American business community including corporations, corporate officers, directors and employees, lenders and governmental entities. This book is an important resource for lawyers and businessmen who seek a one-volume comprehensive and practical guide to superfund law and liability.

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A helpful guide to understanding the law's workings for environmental, corporate, and municipal lawyers as well as business people, environmental consultants, and scholars. Fogleman has thoroughly researched the law, from its enactment to its implementation and enforcement.-THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM
This one-volume work provides a comprehensive, thorough review of Superfund law, which is the popular name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Law (CERCLA).-Legal Information Alert
"This one-volume work provides a comprehensive, thorough review of Superfund law, which is the popular name for the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Law (CERCLA)."-Legal Information Alert
"A helpful guide to understanding the law's workings for environmental, corporate, and municipal lawyers as well as business people, environmental consultants, and scholars. Fogleman has thoroughly researched the law, from its enactment to its implementation and enforcement."-THE ENVIRONMENTAL FORUM

Author Bio

VALERIE M. FOGLEMAN is an attorney with the law firm of Barlow, Lyde & Gilbert in London, England. Previously she was an associate with the law firm of Gary, Thomasson, Hall & Marks Professional Corporation in Corpus Christi, Texas, where she specialized in environmental law. She is the author of Guide to the National Environmental Policy Act: Interpretations, Applications, and Compliance (Quorum Books, 1990). She is also a widely published author of articles in such journals as the Columbia Journal of Environmental Law, Boston College Environmental Affairs Law Review, Environmental Review, Environmental Law, and Environmental Conservation.