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Journal Article
Jan 1, 1998
Superfund liability may impose financial risk on investors and thereby increase firms' costs of capital.
Testimony
Jan 1, 1995
This publication contains the written statement of Lloyd S. Dixon submitted on March 10, 1995, to the Subcommittee on Superfund, Waste Control and Risk Assessment of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Research Brief
Jan 1, 1994
This research brief describes the contentious interactions among firms that generated or transported hazardous wastes and are thus liable for cleanup.
Report
This report focuses on the possible effect of the proposed Superfund Reform Act of 1994 on transaction costs -- costs resulting not from cleanup but from assigning liability for cleanup among the various parties.
Jan 1, 1993
This report will be of interest to those evaluating Superfund's liability-based approach to cleaning up the thousands of abandoned or inactive sites across the United States that are contaminated with hazardous substances.
This publication contains the written statement of Lloyd S. Dixon submitted on November 4, 1993 to the Subcommittee on Superfund, Recycling, and Solid Waste of the United States Senate Environment and Public Works Committee.
Jan 1, 1992
Congress enacted the Superfund program in 1980 to clean up the nation's worst inactive hazardous-waste sites. Superfund uses a liability-based approach intended to help government tap private-sector resources to finance and conduct cleanups.
This research brief examines the extent of the involvement of private parties with Superfund site cleanup.
Jan 1, 1989
This research brief describes a study that sought to determine the effects of Superfund’s liability-based system and its administrative procedures on the program’s pace and cost and on the nature of the remedies selected.
The Superfund program is intended to handle emergencies arising from the release of hazardous wastes, to provide long-term cleanup for a limited number of sites, and to encourage more responsible disposal of hazardous wastes in the future.
Jan 1, 1986
Describes a proposed research design to evaluate certain changes developed by the Environmental Protection Agency for operating and managing the Superfund remedial program to clean up uncontrolled hazardous waste sites.
Hazardous waste management has become an increasingly important public policy issue, requiring, among other things, that appropriate and acceptable levels of risk be determined. Since governmental response to the problem has been slow, research aimed...
