Abstract
Like Hercules battling the mythical Hydra, the chemical industry is embroiled in a struggle where each time it manages to cut the head off one problem, two more problems quickly grow in its place. The struggle is with hazardous waste, and, unlike Hercules, the chemical industry has not yet been able to get the serpent under control. The first federal law that specifically regulated the disposal and management of hazardous waste, the 1976 Resource Conservation & Recovery Act (RCRA), set tough requirements for landfills and required companies to track carefully the disposal of their waste. It was soon decided, though, that this was not enough. Old hazardous waste disposal practices had come back to haunt both the communities where abandoned dumps were found and the companies that had left the waste there. This led to the 1980 Superfund law that provided for cleanup of those disposal sites. Extensions to these two laws over the past ...
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