hazardous-waste

The owners of one small San Clemente business, Racing Optics, departed for Las Vegas after enduring harassment and threats of fines from state and local authorities over trivial issues concerning their homes, including failure to recycle water properly and to obtain the proper hazardous-waste permit for disposing of oil.

Cali to Business: Get Out! Steven Malanga 2011

It found that the agency was spending too much to reduce some relatively small risks - hazardous-waste sites, underground fuel tanks and garbage dumps, all of which were hot topics in the news back then - and not enough on some bigger ones, such as radon, global warming this was back in 1987! and chemicals being dumped into rivers and coastal waters.

The EPA's 'cancer premium' shows how fear overshadows the greater risks Risk expert David Ropeik 2011

Another young man remembers the way managers handled a malfunctioning gate in the hazardous-waste building.

Plant Workers Recall Moment Quake Struck Phred Dvorak 2011

The law allows them to emit greater amounts of some toxic chemicals into the air than the hazardous-waste incinerators specially designed to burn the very same chemicals--including industrial solvents, aluminum-plant waste, and other toxic leftovers from the production of chemicals, pharmaceuticals, and oil.

The Center for Public Integrity: Town divided over major employer's permission to pollute the air The Center for Public Integrity 2011

Mexico treaty passed that reduced heavy-metal emissions and controlled hazardous-waste dumping in both countries.

Second Acts Kristi Essick 2011

Roads, dams, hazardous-waste systems, school buildings, and public drinking water all received a D or D –.

How America Can Rise Again 2010

JOHN WYCHE is the founder and CEO of TrashCo, a Miami-based waste-management company that sanitizes dumpsters and responds to hazardous-waste spills.

Avital Binshtock: Green Washing -- the Good Kind Avital Binshtock 2011

• The Environmental Protection Agency will soon propose a rule to reduce burdens on hazardous-waste generators by moving from paper-based to electronic reporting, saving up to $126 million annually.

Washington Is Eliminating Red Tape Cass Sunstein 2011

JOHN WYCHE is the founder and CEO of TrashCo, a Miami-based waste-management company that sanitizes dumpsters and responds to hazardous-waste spills.

Avital Binshtock: Green Washing -- the Good Kind Avital Binshtock 2011

The call—the best of his career—was informed by his background: Mr. Musante once worked as a geologist, searching for plumes of contamination at hazardous-waste sites.

Oil and Gas Producers 2011