1. Old horrors.
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WASTE management , *ENVIRONMENTAL protection , *ENVIRONMENTAL law , *ENVIRONMENTAL policy , *ENVIRONMENTALISM , *GOVERNMENT policy - Abstract
The article informs that cleaning up contaminated land has become the most expensive and controversial aspect of American environmental policy. Obligations to clean upland arise under a number of programmes. Some of the them impose burdens mainly on the private sector. Others, such as the need to treat old military sites owned by the departments of energy and defence, will fall on the tax-payer. Most of the debate about cleaning contaminated sites has concentrated on the Superfund programme.
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- 1993