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Jennifer Hernandez, a partner at Holland & Knights law firm, wrote this publication about the use of the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA). The paper analyzes how CEQA has been applied in California and the ramifications the statue has had since its inception.

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (the EPA) Office of Site Remediation Enforcement (OSRE) manages the enforcement of the nation’s hazardous waste cleanup laws, including the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA, commonly known as Superfund), the corrective action and underground storage tank cleanup provisions of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the Oil Pollution Act (OPA).