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Energy Department settles with EPA for waste management violations at Hanford
The U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) has agreed to improve waste handling practices and pay $136,000 in a settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. According to the agreement, DOE allegedly operated several dangerous waste storage units without proper permit authorization and placed waste in a landfill before treating it. Instead, DOE treated the waste after ...
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Solvent dispensing system breaks the barrier for laboratory NFPA flammable storage limits
Practical Applications, Inc. (PAI), a leading environmental company, has completed their proprietary solvent dispensing system startup at Cambridge, MA based Alnylam Pharmaceuticals, Inc. The system is designed to continuously supply solvent reagents to laboratory equipment more safely and economically than traditional methods. Traditional practice limits solvent quantities stored at the bench ...
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LSM Engineering Celebrates Continued Middle East Success
LSM Engineering is celebrating its ongoing success in Saudi Arabia demonstrated by long-standing relationships with customers such as Almarai. Representatives from LSM were in Riyadh for Enterprise Ireland’s trade mission to KSA and the U.A.E led by Charlie Flanagan TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade during the first 2 weeks of November. LSM established its business relationship ...
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LSM Engineering Celebrates Continued Middle East Success
LSM Engineering is celebrating its ongoing success in Saudi Arabia demonstrated by long-standing relationships with customers such as Almarai. Representatives from LSM were in Riyadh for Enterprise Ireland’s trade mission to KSA and the U.A.E led by Charlie Flanagan TD, Minister for Foreign Affairs and Trade during the first 2 weeks of November. LSM established its business relationship ...
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Problems for Chester’s waste collection scheme
Residents in parts of Cheshire West and Chester are claiming that their waste collection scheme is spiralling out of control as rubbish left out is attracting rats and other vermin. People who live in the Boughton and Hoole areas of the city have told the council that neighbours are putting rubbish bags out on the wrong collection days, attracting rats and foxes as well as leading to an increase ...
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U.S. EPA fines Central California facility $30,000 for hazardous waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today fined one of the largest metal food can makers in the United States $30,000 for the improper management of hazardous waste at its Riverbank, California facility. Inspections at Silgan Containers Manufacturing Corp. in 2009 and 2010 uncovered violations of federal standards governing the handling and storing of hazardous waste. In this case, the ...
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Sunoco Settles Hazardous Waste Violations at its Former Philadelphia Facility
Sunoco, Inc. (R&M) has agreed to pay a $117,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its former facility located at 4701 Margaret St., Philadelphia, Pa., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. EPA cited Sunoco for violating the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the federal law governing the treatment, storage, and disposal of ...
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Wasted Dive – Florida city debuts new underground dumpsters for public spaces
Dive Brief: Kissimmee, FL has become the first U.S. city to partner with Underground Refuse Systems for the installation of 17 underground collection bins, as reported by the Orlando Sentinel. The units are 11 feet deep and six cubic yards across, with modern-looking collection bins on top. These units can also be equipped with key card access to limit illegal dumping. They can be collected ...
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US Plants Prepare Long-Term Nuclear Waste Storage
Nuclear power plants across the United States are building or expanding storage facilities to hold their spent fuel - radioactive waste that by now was supposed to be on its way to a national dump. The steel and concrete containers used to store the waste on-site were envisioned as only a short-term solution when introduced in the 1980s. Now they are the subject of reviews by industry and ...
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Appeals court suspends DOE collection of nuke fees
A federal appeals court on Tuesday ordered the Energy Department to suspend collection of about $750 million in fees annually for the permanent disposal of nuclear waste because the agency had no plans to use the money. In a sharply worded opinion, the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia said the Obama administration failed to provide a good reason why money for the federal ...
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Perma-Fix Northwest Richland settles with EPA for waste management violations
Perma-Fix Northwest Richland, Inc. (Perma-Fix), a contract handler of radioactive and mixed (radioactive and hazardous) waste from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Hanford Reservation and other sources, has agreed to improve onsite waste handling practices and pay a $187,620 penalty as part of a settlement announced today by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. According to the ...
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Groups To Warn Industry Is Pressuring NRC To `Flout` Court Order On Environmental Impact Of Nuclear Reactor Waste
One day before the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) holds its monthly waste confidence rule public conference call, national and grassroots environmental groups from across the U.S. will file a rebuttal of claims made by the Nuclear Energy Institute (NEI), which has suggested incorrectly that the NRC can largely dispense with additional research needed for a court-ordered environmental impact ...
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U.S. EPA fines reno area facility $79,500 for hazardous waste violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency fined a hazardous waste treatment, storage and recycling company $79,500 for the improper management of hazardous waste at its Fernley facility. A 2010 inspection at 21st Century Environmental Management of Nevada, LLC, uncovered violations of federal standards governing the handling and storage of hazardous waste. In this case, the facility processes and ...
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Nuclear Waste Storage Decision Poses Long-Term Public Health Risks
The Nuclear Regulatory Commission today approved a controversial new rule and Environmental Impact Statement regarding nuclear waste that could pose long-term risks to public health and the environment. The NRC’s new rule and EIS could allow utilities to keep dangerous radioactive spent fuel in temporary storage at their reactors indefinitely and bar any waste-related licensing challenges. ...
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Ansto & Battelle sign radioactive waste technology deal
The Australian Nuclear Science & Technology Organisation's Synroc technology is to be demonstrated as a way to clean up radioactive waste at the United States (US) Idaho National Laboratory. Dr George Collins, ANSTO's Chief of Research, said a US$1.4 million deal was signed between ANSTO Inc (ANSTO's US arm) and Battelle Energy Alliance - the management and operating contractor for the Idaho ...
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Chicago’s Petcoke Problem: City Council Ordinance Moves in the Right Direction
Chicago’s City Council today prohibited more oil refining waste storage sites from blighting the city’s neighborhoods, air and waterways with the passage of an ordinance aimed at banning new coal and petroleum coke (petcoke) operations. The ordinance is a step in the right direction, but it will not rid Southeast Side residents of the petcoke piles that continue to place a huge burden ...
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12-month imprisonment given to illegal waste tyre trader
A 12-month prison sentence has been given to a man who illegally stored tyres, among other waste, at his home and workplace. Mark Smith from Malvern unlawfully stored waste at the Blackmore Park Industrial Estate and his home in Guarlford. Trading under his company Mark Smith Tyres, Smith was advised to get a waste management licence by the Environment Agency (EA) in 2003. He failed to apply ...
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Westinghouse to Provide Significant Engineering Services for Centralized Waste Storage Facility in Spain
Westinghouse Electric Company today announced that it has received a multi-million dollar contract from ENRESA (Empresa Nacional de Residuos Radiactivos), the Spanish agency responsible for radioactive waste management and nuclear plant decommissioning, to provide the main engineering services for the centralized high-level waste (HLW) and spent fuel interim storage facility (Almacén ...
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Marysville metal caster invests $230,000 in hazardous waste reduction as part of EPA settlement
SeaCast, Inc., a metal casting facility in Marysville, Washington, has agreed to pay The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency a penalty of $18,000 to settle alleged hazardous waste violations at the company, which is located within the boundaries of the Tulalip Indian reservation. As part of the EPA settlement, SeaCast will invest at least $230,000 to install and operate a production process ...
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Behlen Manufacturing Company to Pay $59,996 Civil Penalty for Hazardous Waste Violations in Columbus, Neb.
Behlen Manufacturing Company, an agricultural and industrial product manufacturer, has agreed to pay a $59,996 administrative civil penalty to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in Columbus, Neb. In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $75,578 to install pollution reducing equipment as part of a supplemental ...
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