It takes very little low margin domestic waste. Margins in the special waste division rose from 8 per cent to more than 20 per cent as the group moved out of treatment of bulk products and focused more on smaller, more hazardous chemicals.
The additional sites bring to 1,194 the waste dumps scheduled to be decontaminated under the Superfund program, which is aimed at dealing with the nation's most hazardous waste problems.
The company has said that it will eliminate socalled deep well injection of hazardous waste by the year 2000.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency intends to monitor South Carolina's ban on hazardous wastes from 32 states and Puerto Rico to determine its effects on the state's own hazardous waste program.
The federal Environmental Protection Agency intends to monitor South Carolina's ban on hazardous wastes from 32 states and Puerto Rico to determine its effects on the state's own hazardous waste program.
Inc., a unit of GenCorp Inc., don't have to pay an estimated $150 million for a hazardous waste cleanup at an Aerojet plant.
The suit, filed by the California Department of Health Services against Safety-Kleen Inc., Elgin, Ill., charges that the hazardous waste recycler committed nearly 100 violations of state and federal environmental laws in California.
Ocean Spray Cranberries Inc. will plead guilty to federal charges that it intentionally dumped hazardous waste into sewers near its fruit-processing plant in an eastern Massachusetts town, authorities said Tuesday.
The government will launch a campaign to reduce highway traffic fatalities and will continue to address concerns about hazardous materials shipments, aging airliners, transportation vehicle design and the distribution and use of illegal drugs.
According to the National Solid Wastes Management Association, an industry trade group, revenue for the solid and hazardous waste disposal business has grown by about $5 billion to $15 billion in the past five years.
Blizzard warnings were issued for the northwestern part of the state, and wet snow and 35 mph wind made driving hazardous.
They are investigating whether hazardous waste was illegally disposed of at the plant and the actions then covered up.
Such proof is all but impossible to obtain, says Anthony Z. Roisman, a former Justice Department litigator and section chief for hazardous waste.
U.S. law requires companies returning hazardous waste to Texas to notify the Texas Water Commission, which shares information with the EPA.
Economists who failed to anticipate this durability may be tempted to despair, sensing that imponderables so overhang the business scene nowadays that forecasting has grown too hazardous an occupation.
Under a December 1988 consent decree, the plant must comply with state and federal hazardous waste laws and pollution standards. Celebrezze said the consent decree gave the state clear authority to regulate disposal and treatment of hazardous waste.
Under a December 1988 consent decree, the plant must comply with state and federal hazardous waste laws and pollution standards. Celebrezze said the consent decree gave the state clear authority to regulate disposal and treatment of hazardous waste.
He also took credit for legislation to restrict the export of hazardous wastes, and said he has launched an initiative to deal with the debt owed to developed nations by the Third World.
William Rosenberg, the EPA's assistant adminstrator for air and radiation, said the long delay in the regulations reflects the difficulties the agency faces in reducing hazardous releases under current federal air quality laws.
In 1985, Mr. Kent said he had invented a revolutionary process for recycling hazardous waste into harmless black gravel.
The Vermont Highway Department reported extremely hazardous driving conditions over north-central and northeastern parts of the state.
A train carrying hazardous material derailed and caught fire today, prompting the evacuation of about 500 people, officials said.
He said the Energy Department has developed other technologies related to hazardous waste removal, but he said he didn't know whether the department has licensing agreements for those technologies.
The other hazardous waste landfill in the Southeast is in Emelle, Ala.
Robert Beevers, a consultant who spent 14 years as a tanker captain, said the worst move Hazelwood made on March 24 was leaving the ship's bridge in the hands of a third mate during a hazardous passage into Prince William Sound.
One possible regulation would require employers to monitor the amount of workers' exposure to toxic chemicals or other hazardous substances.
The state also charged a lack of emergency evacuation and response procedures, inadequate access to respirators and a lack of entry procedures exposed workers to potentially hazardous levels of toxic fumes, suffocation and death.
The potentially hazardous hoses are installed on cookers manufactured by the Kansas-based company between November 1987 and March 1989.
The difference is that the advocacy group includes all accidents involving a train carrying toxic materials and the FRA and AAR point only to accidents where hazardous materials were released.
Jacobs Engineering, an engineering, design, environmental and hazardous waste management and construction concern, said it had completed a previous contract for Houston-based Star Enterprise to design the hydrotreating unit.