EPA Celebrates 30 Years of The Superfund Program and initiates an Integrated Cleanup Initiative

• Date: December 15, 2010
• Source: Admin

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) celebrates its 30-year-old Superfund program as well as working towards making it stronger and more effective. It is focusing on dealing with cleaning up hazardous waste sites, a constantly changing challenge. The Superfund or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation and Liability Act (CERCLA) came into effect in December 1980 in order to deal with the sites in the United States that were the most complex, uncontrolled, polluted, or abandoned.