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Babst Calland
over 8 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
EPA Issues New Rules Governing Recycling That Will Impact Most Major Industries
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently revised its rules governing the recycling of spent materials, listed hazardous sludge and listed by-products associated with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) definition of solid...
E. Lynn Grayson
over 8 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
New EPA Rule Regulates Coal Ash As Non-Hazardous
By E. Lynn Grayson The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced the first national regulations to provide for the safe disposal of coal combustion residuals (coal ash) from coal-fired power plants which will be regulated under...
Williams Mullen
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
Generators Need to be Vigilant About TCLP Sampling Protocol
By A. Keith "Kip" McAlister, Jr. The Toxicity Characteristic Leaching Procedure (TCLP), SW-846 Method 1311, was promulgated by EPA pursuant to the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act to test and determine the potential leaching rate...
Jenner & Block Corporate Environmental Lawyer
over 8 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
DOD Finalizes Amendments to DFARS Regarding the Storage, Treatment, and Disposal of Non-DOD Toxic and Hazardous Materials on DOD Sites
The Department of Defense (DOD) has published a final rule that amends Defense Federal Acquisition Regulation Supplement (DFARS) subpart 223.71 to better align the DFARS with the current provisions set forth in 10 U.S.C. 2692, [ enhanced version available...
LexisNexis Legal Newsroom Staff
over 8 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
Safeway, Inc. to Pay $9.87 Million Settlement for Environmental Violations
Safeway Inc. has entered into a Stipulated Final Judgment and Permanent Injunction in California to resolve allegations that more than 500 Safeway stores and distribution centers, including its other brands, Vans, Pavilions and Pak 'n Save, violated...
Steven M. Siros
over 8 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
E-Waste Settlement Nets State of California $51.8 Million
By Steven M. Siros AT&T agreed to pay $51.8 million to resolve allegations that it improperly disposed of hazardous electronic waste at its facilities in California. In one of the first enforcement actions of its kind in California, AT&T has...
E. Lynn Grayson
over 7 years ago
Environmental
Hazardous Waste
EPA E-Manifest Implementation Update
By E. Lynn Grayson On October 5, 2012, President Obama signed into law the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment Act (PDF) , which authorizes the EPA to implement a national electronic manifest system. Commonly referred to as "e...
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
over 10 years ago
Environmental
Fish and Wildlife
Amount of plastic trash in the ocean may be vastly underestimated
Prior posts have noted the various plastic debris wastes that are located in the oceans. Prior posts have also suggested that there may be plastic waste in the water column, though its quantification was uncertain. A recent assessment suggests that the...
Francis G.X. Pileggi
over 11 years ago
Corporate
Corporate Law Blog
Delaware Court of Chancery Dismisses Breach of Fiduciary Duty, Waste and Caremark Claims Challenging Goldman Sach’s Compensation Structure
In the case of In Re The Goldman Sachs Group, Inc. Shareholder Litigation , C.A. No. 5215-VCG (Oct. 12, 2011), read opinion here , Vice Chancellor Glasscock, in his first major corporate law decision, granted defendants' motion to dismiss a derivative...
LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff
over 12 years ago
Litigation
News Headlines
Gulf Waste Heads To Landfills, Some With Problems
NEW ORLEANS - (AP) The cleanup of history's worst peacetime oil spill is generating thousands of tons of oil-soaked debris that is ending up in local landfills, some of which were already dealing with environmental concerns. The soft, absorbent boom...
LexisNexis Litigation Resource Community Staff
over 12 years ago
Litigation
News Headlines
Court Asked To OK New Hanford Cleanup Schedule
SPOKANE, Wash. - (AP) State and federal agencies asked a federal judge Wednesday to approve a new cleanup schedule for the Hanford nuclear reservation, the nation's most polluted nuclear weapons site. The motion filed by the U.S. Department of Energy...
LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff
over 12 years ago
Top Emerging Trends
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EPA to Issue Greenhouse Gas reporting program for coal mines, wastewater treatment, waste landfills and magnesium production
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing requirements under its national mandatory greenhouse gas (GHG) reporting program for underground coal mines, industrial wastewater treatment systems, industrial waste landfills...
LexisNexis Emerging Issues Community Staff
over 12 years ago
Top Emerging Trends
Emerging Issues Law Blog
The Green Heroes of Reed Elsevier Recognized as a Part of United Nations World Environment Day
United Nations World Environment Day (WED) 2010 is aimed to be the biggest, most widely celebrated, global day for positive, environmental action. Commemorated on June 5th since 1972, WED is one of the principal vehicles through which the United Nations...
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
over 12 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law Blog
Gasification of garbage: A future strategy?
One of the problems with the disposal of even household trash (in California, at so-called Class 3 landfills) is that pollution, particularly of groundwater, may result, even from well constructed sites. Sometimes construction is less than ideal; sometimes...
Thomas H. Clarke, Jr.
over 11 years ago
Environmental
Environmental Law Blog
Mycoremediation shows promise in breaking down "disposable" diapers
Despite their name, disposable diapers are difficult to break down in a landfill; studies suggest they may take centuries to rot away. The reason they are so persistent is that the main ingredient of disposable diapers is cellulose, a rather persistent...
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