State Hazardous Waste Superfunds and CERCLA: Conflict or Complement?
Editors' Summary: In the past few years, many states have enacted legislation that closely parallels the fund and liability provisions of the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA or Superfund).States have been spurred to adopt their own superfund legislation by the financial requirements and response action opportunities presented them by CERCLA as well as by gaps in the federal Act.