Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources
Superfund and Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee
Message from the Chair
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CERCLA Nanotechnology Issues
The American Bar Association (ABA) Section of Environment, Energy, and Resources (SEER) is pleased to make available the results of a comprehensive review of the core federal environmental statutes to assess the suitability of each to address issues pertinent to human health and the environment arising from applications of nanotechnology. Earlier this year, the Section offered to brief representatives of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Office of General Counsel (OGC) and pertinent other EPA representatives in EPA program offices on legal and regulatory issues arising in connection with the application of existing statutory and regulatory authorities to engineered nanoscale materials. Specifically, the Section offered to prepare detailed briefing documents on each of the six core environmental statutes, and a briefing document on innovative governance mechanisms, that identify key legal and regulatory issues EPA can be expected to encounter as it considers how best to address issues likely to arise in connection with nanotechnology.
About Committee
The Superfund and Natural Resource Damages Litigation Committee focuses on developments in federal and state laws, cases and policy related to hazardous waste remediation and natural resource damages, including enforcement activities under CERCLA and state equivalents, assessments under DOI, NOAA and state programs, as well as staying abreast of developments in ancillary related areas such as environmental insurance for CERCLA sites and legal aspects of new treatment technologies, assessment methods and valuation methodologies. The Committee will also offer information and updates on litigation techniques and evidence issues of particular interest to environmental practitioners.
Committee Resources
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Controversial yet powerful, litigated but most often settled, the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, or Superfund) has a complicated history. CERCLA gave the Environmental Protection Agency vast authority to clean up sites, a dedicated source of funds to undertake clean-ups (Superfund), and a liability scheme of unprecedented scope. The 1986 Superfund Amendments and Reauthorization Act (SARA) remains the only comprehensive set of amendments to CERCLA. Following SARA, three important amendments resulting from narrowly targeted legislation have been enacted to make further reforms to the statute. Amending CERCLA focuses on the amendments that narrowed the CERCLA liability scheme to address specific policy objectives...(more) |
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Basic Practice Series: RCRA (Resource Conservation and Recovery Act) This is a basic and brief overview of some of the more commonly encountered provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Topics covered include: An overview of the statute; Identification of hazardous waste; Regulation of generators and transporters; Selected treatment, storage, and disposal; Standards for specific hazardous waste TSDF units; TSDF permitting and corrective action; Underground storage tanks; and Solid waste. |
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RCRA Practice Manual, The, Second Edition This updated edition of The RCRA Practice Manual is a comprehensive yet easy-to-use guide to an extraordinarily complex area of environmental law. This practice-oriented book focuses on the "cradle-to-grave" program for managing hazardous wastes under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). The RCRA program regulates the handling of these wastes by generators, transporters and treatment, storage and disposal facilities, and regulates a large segment of industry involved in manufacturing. |
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Connie Sue Martin
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Gregory J. DeGulis
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Andrew C. Cooper
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Glenn A. Harris
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