Brownfields Cleanup: A Look Back and Ahead Toward Superfund Authority

ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources 50th Spring Conference on Environmental Law

UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2021-11

13 Pages Posted: 5 May 2021

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Clifford Villa

University of New Mexico - School of Law

Date Written: April 28, 2021

Abstract

Did you know that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, through the Superfund program within each of the ten regional offices across the United States, has millions of dollars to spend each year for cleaning up contaminated sites that are not designated “Superfund” sites? Not many people seem to know that, even lawyers who practice in environmental law, or even law professors who teach it. If these elite folks do not know that, then how would ordinary community members know that, people with busy lives who don’t do Superfund for a living? The short answer is, they probably don’t know either.

Keywords: Superfund, Hazardous Substance Superfund, brownfield, Comprehensive Environmental Response Compensation and Liability Act, CERCLA, CERCLA Section 104, environmental justice

Suggested Citation

Villa, Clifford, Brownfields Cleanup: A Look Back and Ahead Toward Superfund Authority (April 28, 2021). ABA Section on Environment, Energy, and Resources 50th Spring Conference on Environmental Law, UNM School of Law Research Paper No. 2021-11, Available at SSRN: https://ssrn.com/abstract=3836875

Clifford Villa (Contact Author)

University of New Mexico - School of Law ( email )

1117 Stanford, N.E.
Albuquerque, NM 87131
United States

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