NURSING EXAM QUESTIONS
TOXICOLOGY
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RCRA
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CERCLA
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Brownfields
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Clean Water Act
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Detailed explanation-1: -The Love Canal Site is located in Niagara Falls, New York and was one of two places where digging was done for a never-built canal meant to provide inexpensive hydroelectric power around the turn of the 20th century.
Detailed explanation-2: -Due to the actions of Gibbs and the Love Canal Homeowners Association, President Jimmy Carter signed the Superfund bill into law on December 11, 1980. Part of the Superfund payment to Love Canal included $20 million to move Love Canal residents into safer neighborhoods.
Detailed explanation-3: -The result was the 1980 Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act-better known as Superfund. A less well-known but equally important outcome of Love Canal was the emergence of a militant, grassroots “environmental justice” movement.
Detailed explanation-4: -Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA), better known as the Superfund Act. Love Canal became the first entry on the list.