1. For example , Clean Air Act , 42 U.S. Code 7401 ( 1977 ); Water Pollution Control Act, 33 U.S. Code 1251 (1977); Safe Drinking Water Act, 42 U.S. Code 300f (1974); Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, 42 U.S. Code 6901 (1976); Toxic Substances Control Act, 15 U.S. Code 2601 (1976); Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act, 7 U.S. Code 136 (1972); Occupational Safety and Health Act, 29 U.S. Code 651 (1970). The "endangerment" standard has been applied by the courts in the leading cases of Industrial Union Dept., AFL-CIO v. Hodgson, 499 Fed. Rep., 2nd Ser. 467 (D.C. Cir. Ct., 1974); Reserve Mining Co. v. Environmental Protection Agency, 514 Fed. Rep., 2nd Scr. 492 (8th Cir. Ct., 1975); and Ethyl Corp. v. Environmental Protection Agency, 541 Fed. Rep., 2nd Ser. 1 (D.C. Cir. Ct., 1976).
2. United States v. Vertac Chemical Corp. 489 Fed. Rep. Suppl. 870 (E. Dist. Ark. 1980).
3. Admittedly Hercules did agree to contribute something to the cost of the preventive measures but the court refused to order it (2 p. 888).
4. See for example W. L. Prosser Handbook of the Law of Torts (West St. Paul Minn. ed. 4 1971) pp. 236-290.
5. See, for example, W. Pfennigstorf , Am. Bar Found. Res. J. 1979 , 347 ( 1979 ); J. Borgo, J. Legal Stud. 8, 419 (1979).