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Kirsten Engel: “Most of the major hazardous waste cleanups that are going on…”

Featuring: Kirsten Engel, Democratic | Former Candidate, U.S. House Arizona, District 6

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Distinguished Environmental Lecture: Kirsten Engel

Published | Video Starts at 29:27

There's no joint, no way of shifting that burden of finding that orphan owner to the other owners like there is under the federal Superfund law for cost recovery. What does this mean again, more reliance on the federal government. All of the major. Most of the major hazardous waste cleanups that are going on in Arizona are ones that are led by the federal government. This is just too much liability is left there for the state to pick up if it's a state site. (29:27–29:36)

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Asserts that federal government leads most major hazardous waste cleanups in Arizona.

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