Superfund Program (Noun)
Meaning
The federal government's program to locate and investigate and clean up the worst uncontrolled and abandoned toxic waste sites nationwide; administered by the Environmental Protection Agency; "some have intimated that the Superfund's money may have turned into a political slush fund".
Classification
Nouns denoting cognitive processes and contents.
Examples
- The Environmental Protection Agency manages the Superfund program, which focuses on identifying and cleaning up the nation's most hazardous waste sites.
- Congress established the Superfund program to hold polluters accountable for the cost of cleaning up contaminated sites.
- The Superfund program was created in response to the discovery of a toxic waste dump in Love Canal, New York, in the 1970s.
- Critics argue that the Superfund program has become too bureaucratic and slow to effectively address the nation's worst environmental hazards.
- The Superfund program has been used to clean up thousands of contaminated sites, from abandoned factories to former military bases.