hazardous waste operation News
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Hazardous waste operations and emergency response training comes to Cary
Personnel who are expected to stop, contain, and clean up releases of hazardous materials are required to have 24 hours of initial training. Personnel who are involved in clean-ups at waste sites, including Superfund sites, RCRA corrective action sites, or voluntary clean-ups involving hazardous substances must have 40 hours of initial instruction.Environmental Resource Center, the leading ...
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Hazardous waste operations and emergency response training comes to Cary
Personnel who are expected to stop, contain, and clean up releases of hazardous materials are required to have 24 hours of initial training. Personnel who are involved in clean-ups at waste sites, including Superfund sites, RCRA corrective action sites, or voluntary clean-ups involving hazardous substances must have 40 hours of initial instruction.Environmental Resource Center, the leading ...
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The HAZWOPER Training
Certain industries are more at risk for being exposed to harmful substances than others. Employees who are regularly exposed or have the potential to be exposed to hazardous substances and wastes will benefit greatly from completing the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard or HAZWOPER training. Particularly, this includes those who are engaged in operations involving ...
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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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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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Brand FX body of Pocahontas, Iowa, to replace use of solvent and pay $11,021 penalty for hazardous waste violations
SNF, Inc., doing business as the Brand FX Body Company, of Pocahontas, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $11,021 civil penalty to the United States, and spend an additional $61,715 on a supplemental environmental project, to settle a series of violations of federal hazardous waste regulations. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., Brand FX’s ...
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EPA seeks public comment on draft permits for romulus hazardous waste underground injection wells
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the start of a public comment period on draft permits for two underground hazardous waste injection wells that Environmental Geo-Technologies seeks to reopen at 28470 Citrin Drive in Romulus, Michigan. The company has also applied to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for an air permit and a license to operate this facility. ...
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EPA Honors 17 Environmental Job Training Program Graduates in Columbus, Miss.
During a ceremony today at the Genesis Dream Center in Columbus, Miss., representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized 17 graduates from the Superfund Job Training Initiative (SuperJTI). EPA provided the two-week environmental job training program in conjunction with the ongoing cleanup at the Kerr McGee Chemical Superfund Site. The SuperJTI program was offered to ...
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Oregon Companies Settle with EPA for Illegal Disposal of Millions of Pounds of Reactive Hazardous Waste
Oregon Metallurgical of Albany, Ore. and TDY Industries of Millersburg, Ore. have agreed to pay a combined total of $825,000 in civil penalties to resolve alleged violations related to improper storage, transportation, and disposal of anhydrous magnesium chloride, a reactive hazardous waste that can pose serious fire and explosion threats. In addition to the penalty, the companies must improve ...
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Hazmat Training Comes to Cary, NC
September 22, 2010 - When workers handle hazardous waste and/or 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. Environmental Resource Center’s DOT and RCRA Annual Update and Refresher course is the perfect way to meet both your annual review and DOT 49 CFR recurrent training ...
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Manufacturer of concrete mixing equipment in Indianola, Iowa, to pay $59,775 civil penalty for hazardous waste violations (IA)
Cemen Tech, Inc., a manufacturer of concrete mixing equipment, has agreed to pay a $59,775 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of federal hazardous waste laws at its facility in Indianola, Iowa. EPA Region 7 conducted inspections of Cemen Tech’s facility at 1700 N. 14th Street in Indianola in 2007 and 2009, according to an administrative consent ...
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EPA Inspections Reveal Hazardous Waste Violations at GKN Armstrong Wheels in Estherville and Armstrong, Iowa
EPA Region 7 compliance evaluation inspections at two GKN Armstrong Wheels, Inc., facilities in Iowa revealed violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the storage and handling of hazardous waste at each facility. In a settlement filed recently in Lenexa, Kan., the company agreed to pay a $150,031 civil penalty to the United States. Independent inspections at the ...
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U.S. takes action to stop illegal acid waste from Texas chemical plant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department today announced that Air Products LLC has agreed to pay nearly US$1.5 million in civil penalties to resolve hazardous waste mismanagement violations at its Pasadena, Texas chemical manufacturing facility. The settlement resolves Air Products’ Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in ...
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Fines issued for Radioactive Substances Act breach
Two companies and an individual who tried to dispose of radioactive waste without authorisation have been fined by Bedford Magistrates’ Court today (Fri) for breaching the Radioactive Substances Act 1993. The radioactive material was in an X-ray Flourescence Meter which belonged to FFEI Ltd (formerly known as Fuji Film Electronic Imaging Ltd) and used at its Peterborough premises until October ...
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US Ecology to pay nearly $500,000 for hazardous waste violations (NV)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today fined US Ecology $497,982 for 18 counts of hazardous waste violations. US Ecology operates a commercial hazardous waste treatment, storage and disposal facility in Nye County, Nev., on the outskirts of Beatty. EPA inspectors found numerous violations at a hazardous waste unit designed to thermally treat contaminated materials, like soils, to remove ...
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Companies fined for illegal waste activities
Two companies have been fined a combined total of £26,000 following a major Environment Agency investigation into the illegal handling, storage and export of hazardous waste. Chemson Ltd, of Northumberland Dock Road, Wallsend, near Newcastle, and the Empress Green Trading Company Ltd, of Woods Lane, Oldham, were sentenced today at Bradford Crown Court, along with Joanna Potts, 46, an ...
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NASA Awards Environmental Compliance and Operations Contract
NASA has selected Navarro Research and Engineering Inc. of Oak Ridge, Tenn., to provide environmental compliance and restoration services at the agency's White Sands Test Facility in Las Cruces, N.M. The White Sands Test Facility Environmental Compliance and Operations (ECO) contract calls for a two-year base period beginning June 1 and extending through May 31, 2015. One-year options are ...
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Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc., to pay $150,000 penalty for hazardous waste issues at Kimball, Neb., facility (NE)
Clean Harbors Environmental Services, Inc., an international provider of environmental, energy and industrial services, has agreed to pay a $150,000 civil penalty to the United States to settle a series of alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its hazardous waste treatment and storage facility in Kimball, Neb. Clean Harbors’ Kimball facility is the only permitted commercial ...
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Texas Man Sentenced Gets Five Months Prison Time for Hazardous Waste Transport Crimes
Dennis Rodriguez of El Paso, Texas, was sentenced yesterday to five months in prison for violating hazardous waste transport law while operating his company, North American Waste Assistance, located in the same city. Rodriguez was also sentenced to five months home confinement, two years of supervised release and ordered to pay a $10,000 fine. Under a plea agreement reached last February, ...
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U.S. EPA files complaint against Nevada businessman for solid and hazardous waste violations in Indian Country (NV)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is citing Gardnerville, Nevada, businessman Reed Skenandore with violating federal law governing the safe handling and disposal of solid and hazardous waste. Skenandore operates an auto dismantling business and an un-permitted illegal waste disposal site that has resulted in open dumping and illegal disposal of hazardous waste over an 80-acre site. The ...
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