Blog Post Archive
EPA: California Steel Company Fined for Improperly Labeled Hazardous Waste Containers
EPA Release Date: 10/28/2014
Contact Information: Nahal Mogharabi, 213-244-1815, mogharabi.nahal@epa.gov
LOS ANGELES—The U.S.
Environmental Protection Agency fined Kern Steel Fabrication, Inc.
$57,100 for improper management of hazardous waste generated at its 627
Williams Street facility in Bakersfield, Calif.
During a 2012 investigation, EPA found that
the facility failed to properly label about 30 of its containers holding
hazardous wastes such as waste paint,
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21st May 2015
EPA: Strategy to Reduce District’s Sewer Overflows Will Include Green Infrastructure
(PHILADELPHIA- May 20, 2015)
– The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the District of Columbia
(District) and DC Water today announced an agreement to modify a 2005
federal consent decree (CD) allowing DC Water to incorporate green
infrastructure in its long-term strategy for curtailing combined sewer
overflows (CSOs).
The modification, filed yesterday in Federal District
Court in Washington, D.C., gives DC Water the go-ahead to pursue an
integrated green/gray infrastructure
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20th May 2015
EPA: Hazardous Waste Generator Violations at GKN Armstrong Wheels, Iowa
Environmental News
(Lenexa,
Kan., May 13, 2015) - EPA Region 7 compliance evaluation inspections at
two GKN Armstrong Wheels, Inc., facilities in Iowa revealed violations
of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the
storage and handling of hazardous waste at each facility. In a
settlement filed recently in Lenexa, Kan., the company agreed to pay a
$150,031 civil penalty to the United States.
Independent inspections at the company's Estherville and Armstrong
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20th May 2015
EPA: Clean Harbors Fined for Violating RCRA
DALLAS – (May 12,
2015) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency recently issued a consent
agreement and final order to Clean Harbors Deer Park, LLC, in La Porte,
Texas. The company violated laws under the Resource Conservation and
Recovery Act (RCRA) related to the storage and handling of hazardous
waste. The company will pay a $22,400 civil penalty and is required to
take steps to protect the local community from health and environmental
risks associated with hazardous waste.
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20th May 2015
EPA: Settlement with Continental Carbon Company to Reduce Air Pollution at Manufacturing Facilities in Three States
WASHINGTON
– In a settlement with the United States and the states of Alabama and
Oklahoma, Continental Carbon Company has agreed to install pollution
control technology that will significantly cut emissions of harmful air
pollutants at manufacturing facilities in Alabama, Oklahoma and Texas,
the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the Department of
Justice announced today. The settlement will resolve claims that
Houston-based Continental violated the Clean Air Act by mo
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20th May 2015