Yet, the Oak Brook, Ill., company increasingly has been redirecting its research to innovative disposal methods. It is one of perhaps a dozen companies doing research in the biotech area. And its Chemical Waste Management unit is working with the state of California on a freeze-crystallization ...
Twitter Google Share on Facebook Thesaurus Related to toxic site:toxic waste site ThesaurusAntonymsRelated WordsSynonymsLegend: Switch tonew thesaurus Noun1. toxic site- a site where toxic wastes have been dumped and the Environmental Protection Agency has designated them to be cleaned up ...
and work hard to recruit and maintain good businesses in their area. Just over the state border in North Carolina, the cities and towns are teeming with commercial development. In the end, companies have many options on locations from which to conduct their operations. Stories like ours should...
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California regulators should be able to eliminate that fear. We’re at the confirmation hearing for the new director of the CA Dept. of Toxic Control to make sure she answers the tough questions and outlines her plans to hold companies accountable if their hazardous waste and manufacturing facili...
policymaking, the enforcement of laws, and targeting communities of color for disposal sites and polluting industries. Issues central to environmental justice revolve around the siting of municipal landfills, hazardous waste facilities, and nuclear-waste dumps; manufacture and sale of hazardous products; ...
The companies reported that 2.2 billion lb of toxics had been released into the air, 197 million lb into bodies of water, 441 million lb onto land, and 725 million lb injected underground. In addition, 448 million lb of toxic chemicals were sent to municipal wastewater treatment plants for ...
The US saw an 8% increase in toxic chemicals industries released into the environment or sent for hazardous waste disposal in 2021 over the previous year, the Environmental Protection Agency reported Thursday. The data doesn't cover all toxic chemical releases but rather the nearly 800 chemicals ...
As such, we echo calls for food production and consumption to be assessed together more frequently [78]; for UPF value chains to be scrutinized on their so-called ‘sustainable’ practices, including plastic use and disposal; and for plastics and their related chemicals of concern to be fully...
Workers who cleaned up a huge spill from a coal ash pond in Tennessee in 2008 are still suffering—and dying. The U.S. has 1,400 ash dumps.