EPA claims the new measures are intended to increase regulatory oversight and provide stricter controls and greater transparency. Another aim of the new rules is to ensure that shipments from other countries to the U.S. are delivered to EPA-approved hazardous waste processing facilities. Particular ...
The EPA’s new rule on pharmaceutical waste disposal will usher in new regulations for health care facilities to follow. Navigating those new regulations can be tricky. In this 30-minute webinar, Alston & Bird attorney Elise Paeffgen will be joined by former EPA Acting General Counsel and now...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) lists some specific wastes as hazardous, and under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the EPA created regulations to manage hazardous waste, including the mandatory use of a hazardous waste manifest to track all waste from generation ...
Hazardous Waste: EPA Needs to Clarify the Types of Mercury Waste That Can Be Treated and Disposed of Using the Debris Regulations... USGA Office - United States. Government Accountability Office. 被引量: 0发表: 2006年 EPA Needs to Clarify the Types of Mercury Waste That Can Be Treated and...
The Environmental Protection Agency has been authorized by U.S. District Judge Gerhard A. Gesell to delay further the timetable for issuing final hazardous waste regulations under the Resource Conservation & Recovery Act. The new schedule sets April 1980 as the date for promulgation of most, but...
EPA: UPS to pay fine, correct hazardous waste violations The Environmental Protection Agency says it has reached a settlement with United Parcel Service to resolve violations of hazardous waste regulations at more than 1,100 facilities across 45 states and Puerto Rico. October 20, 2022 Biden ...
The definition of a “listed waste” is more convoluted. The listed wastes that create the most questions are typically solvents. EPA regulations require us to considerhowthe solvent was used in the process. EPA considers listed waste to be hazardous, regardless of its concentration or physical ...
Waste management planhazardous waste managementBoth Congress and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) believe that treatment and recovery should be the preferred methods for managing the nation''s hazardous waste to reduce the potential for harm to human health or the environment. In the...
Final EPA Hazardous Waste Rule Will Discourage RecyclingKenneth M. Kastner
The third of three US EPA rules to implement the electronic Hazardous Waste Manifest (e-Manifest) system for tracking the transportation of hazardous waste shipments is now final. Dubbed “the Third Rule” by EPA, the Rule revises the RCRA regulations for documenting the movement of hazardous ...