Under the Clean Air Act, the Clean Water Act, Superfund and other laws, the EPA is responsible for finding those parties responsible for environmental contamination and holding them liable for the costs of remediating that contamination. The Agency has developed a number of tools for estimating environmental liability costs. EPA also encourages businesses and other regulated entities to prevent or reduce environmental liability assessment by, first, paying attention to the environmental aspects of their business decisions and operations, and, second, translating the liabilities into monetary terms so they can more easily be made a part of financial evaluations.
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