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Scotts Manufacturing Company to Pay $148,388 penalty for Hazardous waste issues at Fort Madison, Iowa, facility (IA)
The Scotts Manufacturing Company, of Marysville, Ohio, has agreed to pay a $148,388 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of hazardous waste laws at its pesticide blending and packaging facility in Fort Madison, Iowa. Scotts employs approximately 200 full-time and 200 part-time workers at the Fort Madison facility, which blends and packages various lawn and ...
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Hazardous waste specialist prepares for £1m revenue boost with new shredder
Hazardous waste specialist Wastege has invested in an UNTHA S25 shredder as the team gears up to take on an additional £1m of business. The Hull headquartered firm has more than 30 years’ waste management and recycling experience, supporting clients throughout the UK. But with an ever-growing reputation for tackling particularly complex materials, Wastege is increasingly being tasked ...
By Untha UK Ltd
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EPA Awards US$800k in environmental justice grants to communities in 28 states
EPA is awarding approximately $800,000 in grants to organizations working with communities facing environmental justice challenges throughout the country. Forty grants, up to $20,000 each, are going to community-based organizations and local and tribal governments in 28 states for community projects aimed at addressing environmental and public health issues. “These grants mark the beginning of ...
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Morocco: GTZ advisory services spur new waste legislation
Eschborn, 21 March 2007. Morocco’s modern national waste control law, on the books since the beginning of this year, is a basis for regulated waste management. 'What we're doing now is breathing life into this law,' says Mohamed El-Khawad, head of the Moroccan-German environmental programme, a cooperative programme with the KfW Entwicklungsbank (KfW development bank) financed by the German ...
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Feds to Clean Navy Ordnance Off Vieques Island
NEW YORK, New York, October 1, 2007 (ENS) - Cleanup work on the island of Vieques, Puerto Rico is moving forward after more than 60 years of U.S. Navy use of the island and surrounding waters for amphibious training exercises, air-to-ground maneuvers and a waste explosives detonation range. The island is located about seven miles southeast of mainland Puerto Rico. The U.S. Environmental ...
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Yakima fertilizer manufacturer signs settlement with EPA to resolve hazardous waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has reached an agreement with Kronos Micronutrients to resolve violations of federal hazardous waste laws, according to an EPA settlement. The company is a fertilizer manufacturer in the town of Moxee, Washington, located in the Yakima Valley. Among the most serious violations EPA found during a June 2012 inspection at the facility was evidence of ...
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Powercon Corp. settles hazardous waste violations at Severn, Md. facility
Powercon Corporation has agreed to pay a $40,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility in Severn, Md., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. As part of the settlement, Powercon has also implemented a recycling project that will significantly reduce its hazardous waste. The settlement addresses compliance with ...
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Hazmat Training Comes to San Antonio, TX
September 22, 2010- When workers handle hazardous waste or ship hazardous materials, training is not just a good idea, it’s the law. According to the EPA, workers who handle hazardous waste must be trained annually, and the federal DOT requires that workers involved in the shipment of hazardous materials be trained at least every three years. If your facility generates hazardous waste in ...
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EPA Takes Action to Protect Public from Hazardous Waste Fines SUNY Downstate Medical Center for improper storage and handling of hazardous waste
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a legal complaint against SUNY Downstate Medical Center for violating federal hazardous waste law. The hospital must come into compliance with hazardous waste requirements and faces fines up to $156,710 for the improper management and storage of hazardous wastes in two buildings in its Brooklyn, New York campus. EPA inspections revealed the ...
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Federal Prisons to Self-Police Environmental Violations
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania, July 25, 2007 (ENS) – Sixteen federal prisons housing an estimated 20,000 inmates in Maryland, Pennsylvania, Virginia and West Virginia will undergo environmental inspections to see if they are meeting regulations for controlling air and water pollution, and hazardous waste. The Department of Justice Bureau of Prisons will audit its prison facilities in the ...
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Olson Wire Products Co., Inc. Settles Hazardous Waste Violations at its Baltimore Facility
Olson Wire Products Co. has agreed to pay a $80,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility located at 4100 Benson Ave., in Baltimore, Md., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. EPA cited Olson Wire, which manufactures steel wire shelving and fabricated wire products, for violating the Resource Conservation and ...
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EPA Inspections Reveal Hazardous Waste Violations at University of Missouri-Kansas City Campus
EPA Region 7 compliance evaluation inspections of the University of Missouri-Kansas City's (UMKC) Volker Campus and Dental School in Kansas City, Mo., revealed violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the storage and handling of hazardous waste. In a settlement filed recently by EPA in Lenexa, Kan., the university will pay a $32,679 civil penalty to the United ...
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VA hospitals in Leavenworth and Topeka, Kan., agree to pay civil penalty and implement plan to manage hazardous wastes
The U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs Eastern Kansas Health Care System has agreed to pay a US$51,501 civil penalty and spend nearly a half-million dollars on a plan to manage pharmaceutical and chemical wastes, all in an agreement to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste laws at its hospitals in Leavenworth and Topeka, Kan. The agreement, filed today in Kansas City, Kan., resolves a ...
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Hazardous Waste Settlement Leads to School Cleanups in 60 Schools in R.I. and Mass.
A commercial waste handler in Rhode Island has agreed to pay a fine of $58,278 and to spend $252,152 to clean hazardous chemicals out of approximately 60 schools in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in order to settle EPA claims that the company violated state and federal hazardous waste laws at a facility in Providence, R.I. Northland Environmental and its owner, PSC Environmental Services, will ...
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Wal-Mart Pleads Guilty To Federal Environmental Crimes And Civil Violations And Will Pay More Than $81 Million
Wal-Mart Stores Inc. pleaded guilty today in cases filed by federal prosecutors in Los Angeles and San Francisco to six counts of violating the Clean Water Act by illegally handling and disposing of hazardous materials at its retail stores across the United States. The Bentonville, Ark.-based company also pleaded guilty today in Kansas City, Mo., to violating the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide ...
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