The measures include solar power expansion, legislation to combat climate change, and a bill to treat wastewater from hydro
fracking 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.
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.
From specific tasks
such as hazardous waste disposal and vault and manhole cleaning, to emergency response, equipment failures, plant fires, product releases and disaster recovery, our goal is to eliminate your liability, reduce costs and help you maintain your competitive edge.
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.
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?