Sentences with phrase «hazardous waste dumps»

There are also 2,555 miles of road, 35 public schools, one power plant and 966 hazardous waste dumps and sewage treatment plants at the same level.

I was in school in the 70's and recall the pictures of hazardous waste dumps and dangerously polluted rivers and smogged up cities and etc..

It also gives the location of nearby environmental trouble spots, including brownfield sites, hazardous waste dumps and chemical plants.

It fought to weaken clean air standards, [37] lobbied against the Kyoto Protocol, and opposed a hazardous waste dumping ban.

Not exact matches

In 2006, two years after Vedanta acquired the mine, the company dumped hazardous waste into the Kafue River, a major source of drinking water for the country, according to a lawsuit filed on behalf of 2,000 residents.

City officials said a ruling Monday by a judge in U.S. District Court means the city and its Park District «are not generating, storing or disposing of hazardous waste, or dumping waste» by allowing the shooting.

Shipping the soil to a dump site for hazardous waste would have cost $ 450,000, he said.

Hydraulic fracturing, along with other processes used to drill wells, generates emissions and millions of gallons of hazardous waste that are dumped into open - air pits.

He found 72 toxic chemicals exuding from the hazardous waste sites, but 113 at dumps taking household waste.

«It may be difficult to justify now, but dumping hazardous waste will become more and more expensive,» he says.

Ramos» neighborhood is part of the Parker Street hazardous waste site, approximately 114 acres that include two schools, homes and commercial properties built atop fill contaminated with PCBs from an old municipal burn dump.

While campaigning against toxic waste dumping by industrialized nations in developing Asian countries, Hernandez realized that it was not only hazardous waste, but also toxic technologies that multinational companies were exporting throughout the region.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to the Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution and Wetlands.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Biodiversity, Climate Change, Desertification, Endangered Species, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Marine Life Conservation, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Wetlands and Whaling.

Major International Environmental Agreements: A party to Conventions on Air Pollution, Air Pollution - Nitrogen Oxides, Air Pollution - Sulphur 85, Antarctic - Environmental Protocol, Antarctic - Marine Living Resources, Antarctic Seals, Antarctic Treaty, Biodiversity, Climate Change, Endangered Species, Environmental Modification, Hazardous Wastes, Law of the Sea, Marine Dumping, Nuclear Test Ban, Ozone Layer Protection, Ship Pollution, Tropical Timber 83, Wetlands and Whaling.

• Take and understand orders for sweeping streets and gutter in assigned areas • Ascertain that street cleaning equipment and motorized vehicles are in good shape prior to each shift • Fill water tanks at the beginning of each shit and ensure that they are refilled rom fire hydrants as and when needed • Drive sweeping vehicle to clean streets of debris, trash and other contaminants • Operate controls to activate rotary brushes and water sprays • Store collected waste in the vehicle's rear and transport it to designated dump areas • Empty waste in dump areas, maintaining awareness of any hazardous materials • Perform preventative and general maintenance on sweeping vehicles and also keep it fueled • Handle minor repair functions such as removing and replacing conveyors and repair tensioners and belts • Create and maintain logs of jobs for each day and ensure that they are submitted to the supervisor on a weekly / daily basis

Title insurance is definitely something to consider, especially in case you find that toxic or hazardous waste has previously been stored or dumped on the property.