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  2. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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    EPA developed strict requirements for all aspects of hazardous waste management including the treatment, storage, and disposal of hazardous waste. In addition to these federal requirements, states may develop more stringent requirements or requirements that are broader in scope than the federal regulations.

  3. Plans for new hazardous waste landfill near Yukon suspended ...

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    Nov. 21—MAX Environmental Technologies has halted its plan to reapply for a permit to add a new hazardous waste landfill at its site near Yukon. The Upper St. Clair-based company is instead ...

  4. Hazardous waste - Wikipedia

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    "In terms of hazardous waste, a landfill is defined as a disposal facility or part of a facility where hazardous waste is placed or on land and which is not a pile, a land treatment facility, a surface impoundment, an underground injection well, a salt dome formation, a salt bed formation, an underground mine, a cave, or a corrective action ...

  5. Solid waste policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    There are different designs for landfills used for municipal solid waste or household waste, construction & demolition waste, and hazardous waste. According to an EPA report, the number of municipal solid waste landfills has gone down from 7924 in 1988 to 1754 in 2006. There were close to 1900 construction & demolition landfills in 1994. [6] [21]

  6. EPA says fire burning inside an L.A. County landfill poses ...

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    In addition to the EPA's action, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control has issued multiple violation notices in connection with the landfill's disposal of the hazardous waste.

  7. List of Superfund sites - Wikipedia

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    Superfund sites are polluted locations in the United States requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. Sites include landfills, mines, manufacturing facilities, processing plants where toxic waste has either been improperly managed or dumped.

  8. United States Environmental Protection Agency - Wikipedia

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    Regulation of solid waste (non-hazardous) and hazardous waste under RCRA. To implement the 1976 law, EPA published standards in 1979 for "sanitary" landfills that receive municipal solid waste. [153] The agency published national hazardous waste regulations and established a nationwide permit and tracking system for managing hazardous waste ...

  9. NH approves 60-acre expansion of Turnkey landfill in ... - AOL

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    The second part is a requirement for (Waste Management) to meet all U.S. EPA updated requirements for landfills. We can open the permit to make sure those are included. Because of that, we agreed ...