ABSTRACT
In the United States, the US Congress passed the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act in 1980 to investigate hazardous waste sites, find out the parties responsible for the sites, file lawsuits to recover funds for the clean-up of the sites, and finally clean up the sites to prevent further environmental damage. In 1978, an investigation conducted by the New York State Department of Environmental Protection and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) revealed that benzene and dioxin levels in the soil were 100 times the normal level in the Love Canal area. The Alang shipyard on the coast of the Gulf of Khambat (Cambay) is both a major employer and a cause for environmental concern. Started only a year before the Bhopal accident and three years before Chernobyl, the Alang Shipyard, though scarred with its own human and environmental problems, has persisted and continues as an economic endeavour.
