waste disposal law News
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GBP£43,920 penalty for unpermitted waste activities
On 26 September 2013, Wolverhampton based company S&B Waste Management & Recycling Limited and John Chamberlain (61) of Halesowen, were both sentenced after pleading guilty at Stafford Magistrates’ Court to waste offences. The charges related to the unpermitted operation of a waste management facility on land in Essington. The charge against S & B Waste Management & ...
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Three companies fined for illegal waste activities
Three companies have pleaded guilty to charges relating to the illegal depositing of construction and demolition waste, for the purpose of building a haul road at Hurst Plantation near Doncaster. At Doncaster Magistrates’ Court on Tuesday the 7th of May, Wykeham Estates (Northern Ltd) were fined £3,000.00 and ordered to pay costs of £5,500.00; additionally the Judge gave them an order under ...
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Administrator Lisa P. Jackson, remarks to the University of Wisconsin-Madison
As prepared for delivery. Hello and thank you for having me here today. For an EPA Administrator, coming to Wisconsin is like coming back to the source of everything we do. It was the leadership of Gaylord Nelson and the people who supported him in this state that took a burgeoning environmental movement and translated it in the first Earth Day in 1970. And that led to the creation of the ...
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Waste regulation compliance good for the environment, says SEPA
Scottish organisations and individuals must comply with the environmental laws governing waste disposal. This was the message from the Scottish Environment Protection Agency (SEPA) after an individual operating in Milton of Campsie was fined a total of GBP 1750 for failing to comply with appropriate waste legislation. Mr Gerald Sweeney pled guilty to two waste charges at Glasgow Sheriff Court on ...
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EPA settles hazardous waste storage violations with former owners, operators of Reading, Pa. manufacturing facility
Baldwin Hardware Corp. and SBD Property Holdings, the former owners and operators of a hardware manufacturing plant in Reading, Pa., will pay a $420,000 penalty to settle alleged hazardous waste storage violations of regulations designed to protect public health and the environment, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. The facility, located at 841 Wyomissing Blvd., ...
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EC sends Italy final warning of possible fines over illegal waste landfills
The European Commission is pursuing legal action against Italy over breaches of EU environmental law on waste and waste water treatment. In the first case, Italy has been sent a final written warning that it could face fines unless it moves rapidly to close and clean up thousands of illegal and uncontrolled waste disposal sites across the country. Italy was condemned by the European Court of ...
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