1.02022 Archive of RENATURED, Marina Zurkow's Research Bloghttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022Marinahttps://o-matic.com/blog-archive-2022/blog/author/admin/<img class="alignnone" alt="" src="http://copia.lunarservers.com/~srphs0/wp-content/uploads/2013/02/wascovich_hole-in-earth.jpg" width="432" height="324" /> A <a href="http://www.epa.gov/superfund/about.htm">Superfund site</a> is an abandoned hazardous waste site that poses enough risk to human and environmental health that the Environmental Protection Agency has stepped in to lead a clean-up effort. <strong>It’s also the name of an actual fund that no longer has any money in it* </strong>– <a href="http://www.epa.gov/superfund/about.htm" target="_blank">http://www.epa.gov/superfund/about.htm</a> <div id="nointelliTXT"></div> <div> [caption id="" align="alignnone" width="400"]<a href="http://i.space.com/images/i/000/004/210/i02/080603-iod-supernova-02.jpg?1292268585"><img class=" " alt="What Is A Supernova?" src="http://i.space.com/images/i/000/004/210/i02/080603-iod-supernova-02.jpg?1292268585" width="400" height="349" /></a> <br />This Chandra X-ray photograph shows Cassiopeia A (Cas A, for short), the youngest supernova remnant in the Milky Way.<br />Credit: NASA/CXC/MIT/UMass Amherst/M.D.Stage et al.[/caption] <div id="picad_div"><span style="color: #333333; font-family: Georgia, 'Times New Roman', 'Bitstream Charter', Times, serif; font-size: 13px; line-height: 19px;"> </span></div> A blindingly bright star bursts into view in a corner of the night sky — it wasn't there just a few hours ago, but now it burns like a beacon. That bright star isn't actually a star, at least not anymore. The brilliant point of light is the explosion of a star that has reached the end of its life, otherwise known as a supernova. Supernovas can briefly outshine entire galaxies and radiate more energy than our sun will in its entire lifetime. They're also the primary source of heavy elements in the universe. </div> https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Supernova     * the Superfund law originally paid for <a title="Toxic waste" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toxic_waste">toxic waste</a> cleanups through a <a title="Tax" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tax">tax</a> on <a title="Petroleum" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Petroleum">petroleum</a> and <a title="Chemical industry" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chemical_industry">chemical industries</a>. The chemical and petroleum fees were intended to provide incentives to use less toxic substances. Over five years, $1.6 billion was collected, and the tax went to a <a title="Trust (property)" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trust_(property)">trust fund</a> for cleaning up abandoned or uncontrolled hazardous waste sites. The last <a title="Fiscal year" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fiscal_year#United_States">full fiscal year</a> (FY) in which the <a title="United States Department of the Treasury" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_the_Treasury">Department of the Treasury</a> collected the tax was 1995. At the end of FY 1996 the invested trust fund balance was $6.0 billion. This fund was exhausted by the end of FY 2003; since that time funding for superfund sites for which the potentially responsible party (PRP) could not be found has been <a title="United States Senate Committee on Appropriations" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Senate_Committee_on_Appropriations">appropriated by Congress</a> out of general revenues. –<a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund#Provisions" target="_blank">http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Superfund#Provisions</a>   <img class="alignnone" alt="" src="http://www.logoschristian.org/spacewalk.jpg" width="189" height="186" /> <img class="alignnone" alt="" src="http://tarcreekfilm.com/tcblog/wp-content/uploads/2010/09/rolling-a-barrel.jpg" width="287" height="187" />rich