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2. Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill - Wikipedia

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   The initial spill resulted in no injuries or deaths, but several of the employees of an engineering firm hired by TVA to clean up the spill developed illnesses, including brain cancer, lung cancer, and leukemia, as a result of exposure to the toxic coal ash, and more than 30 had died within 10 years of the spill. [6]

3. 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill - Wikipedia

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   The 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill was an environmental disaster that began at the Gold King Mine near Silverton, Colorado, [2] when Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel, along with workers for Environmental Restoration LLC (a Missouri company under EPA contract to mitigate pollutants from the closed mine), caused the release of toxic waste water into the Animas River watershed.

4. Environmental cleanup law - Wikipedia

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   Environmental cleanup laws govern the removal of pollution or contaminants from environmental media such as soil, sediment, surface water, or ground water.Unlike pollution control laws, cleanup laws are designed to respond after-the-fact to environmental contamination, and consequently must often define not only the necessary response actions, but also the parties who may be responsible for ...

5. Oil gushed into the Gulf and people got sick. A secret ... - AOL

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   Cleanup of the BP oil spill. In the weeks and months after the disaster, Mattiford, 59, said representatives from BP fanned out across the area handing out money and hiring people to work on ...

6. Settlement reached in Delaware River chemical spill in ... - AOL

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   More: As toxic spill cleanup continues in Bristol, tap water in Bucks County is deemed safe Under the agreement, residents and businesses in 30 zip codes served by the Baxter Water Treatment Plan ...

7. Superfund - Wikipedia

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   An act to provide for liability, compensation, cleanup, and emergency response for hazardous substances released into the environment and the cleanup of inactive hazardous waste disposal sites. Acronyms (colloquial) CERCLA: Nicknames: Superfund: Enacted by: the 96th United States Congress: Citations; Public law: P.L. 96-510: Statutes at Large ...