Love Canal & Evniornmental Policies
The Clean Air and Water Acts, the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Pesticide Act, the Resource Conservation, the Recovery Act, as well as the Toxic Substances Control Act are all relevant links in being able to draw up Congressional acts in regards to toxic problems.
The Resource Conservation and Recovery Act was able to be used by the EPA in order to offer grants to States. The grants help them to establish programs needed to make sure that hazardous chemicals and waste is not only disposed of correctly but also handled appropriately. It is also the EPA’s wish that the State’s have full assessments of potential dangers caused by these sites as well as inventories of the industrial wastes that are disposed of there.
The EPA did set forth a proposal for a system in which would help to ensure that 35 million tons of hazardous wastes would be disposed of properly.
‘Superfund’ or the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act which came out of the Love Canal disaster aims to collects taxes from gas and chemical corporations to be used directly to clean up hazardous sites such as the Love Canal landfill site. In September of 2004 the Love Canal was taken off of the Superfund list because certain cleanup goals had been achieved, but much of the area is still fenced off.
