EPA recently initiated a rulemaking process aimed at reviewing how empty industrial drums are regulated under the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). This is a move which could have ...

EPA’s strategy to rework RCRA policy for the retail sector has three prongs: (1) issuing new guidance, policies, and rules that improve the fit between RCRA regulations and the retail sector; (2 ...

Yesterday, EPA also released its toxicity assessment for the compound GenX, finding it to be the most toxic of the four the agency will scrutinize under RCRA, although both PFOA and PFOS are to ...

RCRA gives EPA the authority to control and regulate hazardous waste from “cradle-to-grave” under its Subtitle C regulatory framework. 42 U.S.C. §§ 6921-6934; 40 C.F.R. Parts 260 – 273.

Under the RCRA Corrective Action Program, EPA and the states oversee nearly 4,000 cleanups across a range of sites, including current and former chemical manufacturing plants, oil refineries, lead ...

Royal Caribbean also has to ensure that waste is separated per RCRA rules. “Additionally, RCL will update its Standard Operating Procedure (SOPs) and submit to EPA Region 6 for review,” the ...

There are over 2,300 RCRA-regulated waste generator facilities in New Mexico, for example, but only two appear to have volunteered information about PFAS to EPA.

With the inception of the Resource Conservation Recovery Act (RCRA,) EPA made it clear that hazardous waste generators are responsible for the wastes that they generate. In addition, EPA also has ...

EPA published new RCRA requirements on November 28, 2016 to make substantial changes to the first enacted rule of 1981. The initial rule may cause confusion but EPA’s intent is to update the ...

In 2010, acting pursuant to its authority under the Safe Drinking Water Act, EPA promulgated a rule creating the new “Class VI” well, and prohibiting the injection of hazardous RCRA “solid ...

EPA said Newmont and Barrick mines “illegally treated and disposed of” toxic waste. ... (RCRA). “EPA and NDEP see it different,” Hadder said Wednesday.