waste management law News
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Cority’s Waste Management Solution Earns Top Product of the Year Award from Environment + Energy Leader
Cority, the global enterprise EHS software provider, today announced that its Waste Management solution received the Top Product of the Year Award in the elite Environment + Energy Leader Awards program. This win is an indication that the program’s expert judges consider Cority’s Waste Management solution a top example of the exemplary work being done today in the fields of energy and ...
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Under Settlement, North Windham, Conn. Company Reduces Hazardous Waste
In a recent settlement with EPA, the manufacturer of bonded abrasives in North Windham, Conn. has acquired new equipment that will reduce its generation of waste epoxy resins. The settlement resolves allegations by EPA that United Abrasives, Inc. violated federal and state hazardous waste laws. Under the settlement, United Abrasives paid a penalty of $26,619 and spent nearly $100,000 on an ...
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Seabrook N.H. Metal Finisher Improves Hazardous Waste Management under EPA Settlement
Under a recent settlement, a Seabrook, N.H., metal finishing company will improve its hazardous waste management practices, thereby improving health protections for the community. Aero-Dynamics, Inc. will also pay a penalty of $118,000, settling EPA claims that it violated hazardous waste regulations. The improved hazardous waste management practices will greatly reduce the risk of a release of ...
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EPA Requires Hudson, NH Manufacturing Company to Pay a Fine and Make Hazardous Waste Operations Safer for Community
A manufacturer of printing equipment in Hudson, NH has agreed to pay a penalty of $116,000 to resolve claims by the US Environmental Protection Agency that it violated hazardous waste laws. In an agreement signed recently with EPA’s New England office, Presstek, Inc. (Presstek) agreed to pay the penalty and to comply with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Last September, ...
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Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson settles with EPA for hazardous waste law violations
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson in Anchorage failed to comply with federal hazardous waste management laws and has agreed to pay a fine to resolve the violations, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The base has taken action to correct the violations and will pay a fine of over $21,000. “Careful hazardous waste management protects human lives and the ...
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Teva Pharmaceuticals USA to Pay $2.25M Civil Penalty for Air, Water, and Hazardous Waste Violations at Mexico, Mo., Facility
Teva Pharmaceuticals USA Inc. has agreed to pay a $2.25 million civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), and the State of Missouri’s Air Conservation Law, Clean Water Law, and Hazardous Waste Management Law at the company’s facility in Mexico, Mo., the Justice Department, EPA ...
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New Haven Company will pay penalty for hazardous waste violations
A New Haven, Conn. company that makes door hardware has agreed to pay $39,705 to settle EPA’s claims that it violated state and federal hazardous waste laws. The Sargent Manufacturing Company violated state hazardous waste laws as well as the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). These laws are designed to help protect public health and the environment by promoting the ...
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Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks mismanaged hazardous waste and failed to maintain adequate training plan for personnel handling waste
Eielson Air Force Base near Fairbanks mismanaged hazardous waste at its facilities and failed to ensure that personnel handling hazardous waste had proper training, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The base agreed to pay a penalty for alleged violations of federal hazardous waste management laws, correct the violations and improve its waste management and ...
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Two New England companies fined for violating hazardous waste management requirements
Two New England companies that store and distribute hazardous chemicals have agreed in separate settlements to pay a total of more than $179,000 in penalties and to donate about $43,000 worth of equipment and training to local fire departments to settle EPA claims that they violated federal laws regulating companies that handle hazardous chemicals. Settlement agreements with EPA’s New ...
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Kent hazardous waste company sparks fires, pays EPA penalty
A Kent, Washington, hazardous waste management facility has agreed to pay the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a $275,000 penalty for violating state and federal hazardous waste management laws. According to EPA, workers at Burlington Environmental caused two fires by mishandling hazardous waste and failing to comply with basic facility safety rules. “Improper hazardous waste handling ...
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Braintree, Mass. waste facility agrees to spend over $1.7 million to settle alleged hazardous waste violations
In a settlement valued at more than $1.7 million, Clean Harbors of Braintree, Inc. has agreed to pay a significant penalty and perform additional projects, to settle a complaint filed by the U.S. Department of Justice on behalf of EPA, regarding numerous violations of hazardous waste management and emergency planning laws at the company’s Braintree, Mass. facility. Under the settlement, ...
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Saco, Maine Metal Finishing Company to pay fine for hazardous waste violations (ME)
A metal finishing and electroplating facility in Saco, Maine, has agreed to pay $38,250 to settle claims it violated state and federal hazardous waste laws. Southern Maine Specialties violated state hazardous waste laws as well as the federal Resource Conservation and Recovery Act by improper storage, labeling and other management of hazardous waste, as well as by not providing adequate employee ...
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Leominster Dye company to pay fine for environmental violations
A Leominster company that produces plastic dye pellets has agreed to pay $17,409 to settle claims it violated state and federal hazardous waste management laws. Hudson Color Concentrates, located at 50 Francis St., produces custom color plastic pellet concentrates for the plastics industry working with mixtures of color pigments. Hudson is a division of L&A Molding. This settlement resolves ...
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North America’s largest lead producer to spend $65 million to correct environmental violations at Missouri facilities (MO)
Doe Run Resources Corp. of St. Louis, North America’s largest lead producer, has agreed to spend approximately $65 million to correct violations of several environmental laws at 10 of its lead mining, milling and smelting facilities in southeast Missouri, the Justice Department, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources announced today. The ...
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North America’s largest lead producer to spend $65 million for environmental violations at Missouri facilities
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the U.S. Justice Department and the Missouri Department of Natural Resources today announced that Doe Run Resources Corp. of St. Louis, North America’s largest lead producer, has agreed to spend approximately $65 million to correct violations of several environmental laws at 10 of its lead mining, milling and smelting facilities in southeast ...
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Puget sound Naval Shipyard pays $56,000 for hazardous waste violations (WA)
The Puget Sound Naval Shipyard and Intermediate Maintenance Facility has agreed to pay $56,000 for hazardous waste violations at its facility in the Bremerton Naval Complex, according to an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. In January 2009, inspectors from the Washington State Department of Ecology and EPA found violations of hazardous waste management laws at the ...
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From rubbish to resource
Environment Agency unveils new strategy for tackling tomorrow’s waste Helping businesses use resources more efficiently and divert more waste from landfill were today unveiled as top targets for the Environment Agency over the next five years. Launched on day two of the Agency’s annual conference, the new corporate strategy Creating A Better Place 2010-2015 also outlines the key waste-related ...
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EU environmental liability directive soon to become law
The European Union’s Environmental Liability Directive (ELD) will come into force in England from 1 March and will have an impact on waste management activities, according to international law firm Freshfields. The Environmental Damage (Prevention and Remediation) Regulations require operators not only to take preventative action to avoid environmental damage occurring in the first place, but ...
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East Boston sandblaster fined for hazardous waste violations
Amex Inc., an East Boston, Mass. sandblaster of tanks, bridges and barges, has paid a fine and will donate emergency response equipment, totaling $30,000, under the terms of a settlement with EPA regarding hazardous waste violations. The Agreement filed by EPA resolves violations of federal hazardous waste management law at the East Boston facility. Under the settlement, Amex paid a cash penalty ...
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