Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued an advance notice of proposed rulemaking (ANPR) that identified three industry sectors for which the agency will develop new financial assurance requirements under Section 108(b) of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA).
Department of Justice today announced that Texaco's Bakersfield Refinery has agreed to pay a $560,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act and two other federal environmental laws, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) and Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA).
The company failed to immediately notify the National Response Center (NRC), as required under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, known as Superfund), and the Arizona Emergency Response Commission and Cochise County Emergency Planning Committee, as required under the Emergency Planning and Community-Right-To-Know Act (EPCRA).
According to the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act and the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act, certain hazardous spills must be immediately reported to the two agencies.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) authorize EPA to respond to actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare or the environment.
Under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, known as Superfund), facilities are required to immediately notify the National Response Center if a specified quantity of a hazardous substance is released.
The Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, also known as Superfund) and the Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) authorize EPA to respond to actual or threatened releases of hazardous substances that may endanger public health, welfare or the environment.
The cleanups will be conducted under the authority of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), commonly known as Superfund.
