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U.S. Environmental Contracting Business Grows to $24.5 Billion in Revenues
The U.S. Environmental Contracting* business generated $24.5 billion in revenues in 2015, with Remediation & Industrial Services contributing $13.6-billion and Hazardous Waste Management contributing $10.9-billion, according to new research by Environmental Business International Inc., publisher of Environmental Business Journal (EBJ). Remediation/Industrial Services and Hazardous ...
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Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. to pay penalty for chemical reporting violations at Aragonite, Utah facility
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)today announced an agreement with Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc. (Clean Harbors) based in Norwell, Mass., resolving alleged violations of the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) at its industrial waste incineration facility in Aragonite, Utah. As part of the settlement, Clean Harbors has agreed to pay a penalty of ...
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Quotes From the Earth Flim Festival
Quotes from the Earth’, a three-day Environmental film festival by Toxics Link and India International Centre with support from The Swedish Society For Nature Conservation kicked off in New Delhi today. Former Union Minister and currently a member of Rajya Sabha from Karnataka Jairam Ramesh inaugurated the festival. Speaking at the inaugural ceremony he said, “We cannot deforest our ...
By Toxics Link
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Scrapping ships - is the EU dumping toxic waste?
Hundreds of rusting old ships registered in the European Union end up being dismantled on beaches on the Indian sub-continent - with Bangladesh being a key destination. There, workers brave oil, asbestos, chemicals and heavy metals as they dismantle the ships by hand. A report to be debated by MEPs Tuesday night in Strasbourg will call for EU-registered ships to be pre-cleaned of hazardous waste ...
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Groups Applaud EPA Action to Reduce Water Pollution From Power Plants
Strong Rules Could Keep Millions of Pounds of Toxic Metals Out of Waterways WASHINGTON - In response to action by leading U.S. environmental groups, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is taking action to keep pollution from coal plant smokestacks out of America's waterways. EPA will issue these new rules, which would protect Americans from millions of pounds of heavy metals and ...
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