EPA has quietly published a compendium of alternatives to open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) technologies for addressing spent munitions and other explosives even as it delays release of a proposed Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) rule that is expected to bar its use in some cases...
Hazardous Waste EPA proposes rule to safely dispose of waste explosives such as fireworks and ammunition The draft rule would reduce the open burning and open detonation of waste explosives, such as fireworks, ammunition and flares, which the EPA says have serious environmental and public health ...
Officials with EPA's waste office say the agency needs "more time" to craft strict new rules for open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) hazardous waste incineration to identify and evaluate alternative technologies, intensifying environmentalists' threats to sue the agency to force a ban on the ...
EPA plans to revise its regulations governing the open burn/open detonation (OB/OD) of waste explosives to require evaluation of alternative destruction methods and may set minimum technical criteria for remaining OB/OD units, but the plan falls short of environmentalists' long-time call to ban...
“You want to fly over a train derailment in the first five to 10 hours after the incident and while the fires are still burning. It is really advantageous if you have a plume. That big black plume ... is when you want to get in and collect data,” Kroutil said. “...
The White House Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has begun reviewing EPA's proposed rule that aims to limit the open burning/open detonation (OB/OD) of waste explosives and increase use of alternative disposal technologies as enviro... S Hess - 《Inside Epas Environmental Policy Alert》...