Sentences with phrase «as hazardous waste»

They would also like to see waste water from the drilling practice classified as hazardous waste.
The point is that urine is a useful resource which we treat as a hazardous waste product.
The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydro fracking as hazardous waste.
Under federal law, the products do not have to be regarded as hazardous waste, but states are free to impose stricter standards.
In some cases, the water was so toxic it could be classified as hazardous waste.
To prohibit the Environmental Protection Agency from regulating coal combustion byproducts as hazardous waste under subtitle C of the Solid Waste Disposal Act, and for other purposes.
PCBs were regulated as hazardous waste by the federal government, and I understood that they would be managed appropriately.
But, after meetings between the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) and industry groups — who insist that classifying coal ash as hazardous waste could mean billions in clean - up costs — the EPA has delayed its rule - making indefinitely.
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The State Assembly, led by Democrats, passed a package of one house bills for Earth Day, including requiring private drinking wells to be tested before fracking occurs, and to classify fracking wastewater as hazardous waste.
While the state Assembly passed bills to classify the water as hazardous waste, and to begin a health study, the Senate did not pass the bills, and the legislature left town with no agreements.
The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydrofracking as hazardous waste.
Police treat methamphetamine labs as hazardous waste sites.
Thus, according to US News & World Report, the EPA is currently «weighing whether to classify the gypsum stacks as hazardous waste under federal statutes, which would force the industry to provide strict safeguards» (to nearly 1 billion tons of waste).
In the retail sector, managing discarded and returned consumer aerosol cans can hit the «tripwire» for RCRA ignitability, requiring their management as hazardous waste.
Today the AP writes: «While the spill of ash from burned coal contains arsenic and potentially carcinogenic heavy metals, it is not regulated as hazardous waste.
Because it is not classified as hazardous waste under Environmental Protection Agency standards, there is no federal supervision of its use in agriculture.
Industry groups protested, saying that if the EPA began defining coal ash as hazardous waste, that decision could backfire — choking off a trade that recycles the material into concrete, and creating even more unwanted ash.
Solvent - based paints need to be disposed of as hazardous waste, so take them to your local recycling centre.
• A rider that would prevent the EPA from labeling the toxic ash left over from coal combustion as hazardous waste — something that would no doubt alarm the people of Kingston, Tenn., buried by a coal - ash spill in 2008.
Fire extinguishers are classified as hazardous waste and need to be disposed of carefully.
«Over time, EPA's regulations have treated it as a solid waste, equivalent to household garbage, but not as a hazardous waste,» EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson said.
Did fracking fluids ever contain industrial waste mixtures which, if pumped into the ground for non-gas production purposes, would have been regulated as hazardous waste?
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