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Hazardous Waste Landfill: - An excavated or engineered site where hazardous waste is deposited and covered.
[Environmental Protection Agency]

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Get a big whiff of landfill debate  -  04 Aug 2008
Peoria Journal Star,The Illinois Pollution Control Board will host a hearing about proposed changes at Peoria County's hazardous waste landfill. "It threatens the whole of

GUEST VIEW: State needs to get hazardous waste policy  -  Jul 31, 2008
Niagara Gazette,Today, CWM flunks that test because it is the only hazardous waste landfill. A second landfill in NY would not stop CWM expansion, but instead would help it

Waste Landfill Expansion Voted Down ; Dump Site Capacity Deemed ...  -  Jul 19, 2008
RedOrbit,By Aaron Besecker The Erie County Legislature voted unanimously Thursday to oppose the expansion of a hazardous waste landfill in the Niagara County Town of

CIWT Begins Construction of New Site  -  Jul 30, 2008
�富財經,In addition the project will include capacity expansion of a hazardous waste landfill, an industrial effluent treatment system and an organic solvent

MONDAY: Hazardous waste siting plan released (4:17 pm)  -  Jul 28, 2008
Niagara Gazette,...the outcome of CWM Chemical Services application for a new hazardous waste landfill, RMU-2, at its facility straddling the towns of Lewiston and Porter.

CWM: Erie County lawmakers criticize expansion  -  Jul 17, 2008
Niagara Gazette,Without CWM, New York state’s only hazardous waste landfill and one of only 17 commercial hazardous waste landfills remaining in the country, costs for New

Legislature condemns hazardous waste landfilling: Requests county ...  -  Jul 23, 2008
Trading Markets (press release),An estimated 1500 truckloads of waste over a one-year period would bring the PCBs to CWM, the only licensed hazardous waste landfill in the northeastern

NIAGARA COUNTY: Legislature asks DEC to reconsider hauling waste ...  -  Jul 22, 2008
Tonawanda News,...of managing such material and suggests that New York should not add hazardous waste landfill capacity in Niagara County or anywhere else in New York.

Hazardous waste rules light up prospects for mercury  -  Jul 14, 2008
Crain's Manchester Business,It started with the landfill directive, which reduced the number of hazardous waste landfill sites from 250 to 12, and culminated most recently in the WEEE

At Former Landfill, RFID Monitors Workers and Waste  -  Jul 25, 2008
RFID Journal,By Brett Neely July 25, 2008—Sondermülldeponie Kölliken (SMDK), a hazardous waste landfill in Kölliken, Switzerland, has adopted an ultra-wideband (UWB)

PORTER: Opposition piles up to PCB shipment  -  Jul 14, 2008
Niagara Gazette,David Paterson, calling the decision “one more blatant example of a horrible (state) policy that encourages hazardous waste landfill disposal� and called on

Peoria landfill talks trash  -  Jul 24, 2008
Peoria Journal Star,Peoria Disposal Co. runs the hazardous waste landfill near Pottstown. But Peoria Director of Public Works Dave Barber said that doesn't necessarily mean

Ohio EPA alleges landfill operator violated permit  -  Jul 24, 2008
Toledo Blade,By IGNAZIO MESSINA Envirosafe Services of Ohio Inc., which operates the state's only commercial hazardous waste landfill just east of Toledo, violated eight

Cleanup of park hits snag  -  Jul 21, 2008
Gainesville Sun,That other option is taking the soil to a secure hazardous waste landfill in Georgia and bringing in clean dirt. Hart said that the landfill option would

Schumer urges support of LOOW advisers: Says agency should stop ...  -  Jul 18, 2008
TMCnetCWM is the Northeast's only hazardous waste landfill, which sits on the former ordnance works site. The corps had been telling the public for years it will

Continental to buy part of closed plant  -  Jul 15, 2008
TMCnetIn marketing the property, Continental seeks to sell 376 acres, including a closed 58-acre hazardous waste landfill, for $13.8 million.

Anatomy of a cleanup  -  Jul 13, 2008
The Herald-Times (subscription),The contaminated dirt was taken to a hazardous waste landfill in Detroit, Henshaw said. A fill material was added to the formerly contaminated areas and new

Megastore goes ahead on gas site  -  Jul 10, 2008
Gisborne Herald,...was passed on to existing owners and earlier this week work began to remove contaminated soil and transport it to a licensed hazardous-waste landfill.

Human tissue, old bandages and used syringes pile up as waste ...  -  Dec 1, 2007
The Times,Because of the volume and risks involved, the department gave emergency permission for some of the stash to be buried at a hazardous-waste landfill site in

Less hazardous waste sent to landfill shows new report  -  Nov 29, 2007
Materials Handling World Magazine,Less hazardous waste is being sent to landfill, 60% less than in 2004, and more of it is being treated and recycled shows latest figures release today

State sides with waste company over radioactive waste landfill  -  Nov 15, 2007
Aspen Times,The county’s lawsuit filed in April seeks fines against Clean Harbors Deer Trail LLC for alleged violations at its hazardous waste landfill.

Ireland exported 48% of its Hazardous Waste in 2006; EPA ...  -  Nov 7, 2007
FinFacts Ireland,If Ireland were to become fully self-sufficient, hazardous waste landfill and incineration would be required. It noted that while a hazardous waste

State expands efforts to control toxic mercury  -  Dec 1, 2007
Fort Wayne Journal Gazette,Soil and solid-waste contaminated with mercury can be removed and disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill, but the mercury will never be eliminated.

Environment agency accuses county's waste boss of illegal dumping  -  Nov 13, 2007
This is Wiltshire.co.uk,He said it should have been taken to a licensed, hazardous waste landfill site and should have written to the Environment Agency to ask if what he was

ENVIRONMENT: CWM addresses radiation concerns  -  Nov 8, 2007
Niagara Gazette,...meeting Thursday night at CWM Chemical Services, the Town of Porter hazardous waste landfill currently surveying its property for radioactive materials.

Source of toxic 'hot spot' a mystery  -  Nov 26, 2007
Seattle Post IntelligencerRecords show the firm in 1999 hauled away more than 50000 pounds of soil to a hazardous-waste landfill. But the records show that the excavation was done in

Low--level radiation samples at Porter sent to lab via fedex  -  Nov 9, 2007
Trading Markets (press release),That summed up the message aired during a discussion held at CWM, the Northeast's only active commercial hazardous waste landfill -- radiation is all around

Porter officials see opportunity for waterfront park  -  Nov 26, 2007
Buffalo News,The town received $2 million this year from officials at CWM Chemical Services, a hazardous waste landfill operating on Balmer Road.

LEW-PORT: Pre-K class rekindles truck concerns  -  Nov 12, 2007
Niagara Gazette,...as an expanded pre-kindergarten program has pushed class times out of blackout periods for trucks from a nearby hazardous waste landfill.

CWM: ?Foul-smelling? foam not dangerous  -  Nov 3, 2007
Trading Markets (press release),The foam was coming from a pipe from CWM Chemical Services, the Town of Porter hazardous waste landfill, as part of an annual discharge regulated by the

Capital Blog: Beneath the surface of Capitol Lake, and the Capitol  -  Nov 15, 2007
The Daily Advertiser,...issued to clean up the lakes, nothing has been done because the waterbottom is so polluted, it would probably have to go to a hazardous waste landfill.

Tetra Tech Awarded $218 Million Contract Extension to Bring Rocky ...  -  Nov 14, 2007
Business Wire (press release),Tetra Tech provides program management, hazardous waste landfill design, construction oversight, public involvement, regulatory support, and other technical

Veto is hazardous, too  -  Aug 20, 2007
Buffalo News,Eliot L. Spitzer says to the Niagara County residents who oppose the expansion of the state’s only hazardous waste landfill. He hasn’t merely vetoed the

Spitzer vetoes hazardous waste limits  -  Aug 16, 2007
Buffalo News,The proposed legislation would have prohibited the siting of a hazardous waste landfill in an area with the potential to discharge into the Great Lakes

Mistake paves way for Marsa hazardous waste incinerator  -  Aug 13, 2007
Malta Today,It also eliminates the need for a hazardous waste landfill. The EIS states that there will be no significant increase of pollution in Marsa due to the new

Phew!—Chemical Waste Management Open House Over for Another Year  -  Aug 2, 2007
Artvoice,Within the next couple weeks, Governor Eliot Spitzer is expected to weigh in on a bill that would require hazardous-waste landfill operators to demonstrate

Landfill restriction makes sense  -  Aug 2, 2007
Buffalo News,Eliot L. Spitzer signs a bill that stands to kill the expansion of the state’s only hazardous waste landfill, it would go a long way to address the fears of

GREAT LAKES BILL: CWM opponents, supporters react to Spitzer’s veto  -  Aug 16, 2007
Lockport Union-Sun & Journal,Eliot Spitzer vetoed a bill which could have jeopardized the proposed expansion of the Porter-based hazardous waste landfill. Meanwhile, CWM officials and

LEWISTON: Residents ban together against landfill plans  -  Aug 8, 2007
Niagara Gazette,Eliot Spitzer is expected to weigh in on another bill which could affect CWM Chemical Services’ plans for expansion at its nearby hazardous waste landfill,

N-waste bid questioned in DC  -  Aug 3, 2007
Salt Lake Tribune,The company is best-known in Utah for owning and operating a mile-square radioactive and hazardous waste landfill about 80 miles west of Salt Lake City.

State plans monitoring at shuttered lead plant  -  Aug 19, 2007
Munster Times,...together under EPA Superfund guidance into a "corrective action management unit" -- a hazardous waste landfill -- on 11 acres of the USS Lead property.

Toxins cleanup cost: $5 million  -  Aug 22, 2007
The Independent Weekly,The dirt will then be taken to a hazardous waste landfill offsite. The cleanup plan includes a five-year review, monitoring, stream restoration and a mussel

PCB cleanup finally starts; Mohawk reserve being detoxified  -  Aug 14, 2007
Standard Freeholder,Levels above 50 ppm would mean the soil would have to be diverted to a hazardous waste landfill, but Arquette doubted that would be necessary.

150-gallon diesel spill in truck crash ties up Rt. 315 traffic  -  Aug 21, 2007
Wilkes Barre Times-Leader,Datom Products, a hazardous-materials unit out of Dunmore, was brought in to dispose of the material at a hazardous-waste landfill, Bekanich said.

State plans to examine groundwater contamination at former ...  -  Aug 9, 2007
The Carrboro Citizen,Chapman said the 12 “roll-off� cars at the site loaded with soil from the recent $100000 cleanup will be sent to a hazardous waste landfill in Michigan and

Magna to sell 800 acres in Porter; abandons plans for racetracks  -  Aug 11, 2007
Buffalo News,CWM Chemical Services, which operates the only hazardous waste landfill in the Northeast, is the town’s largest employer, with a work force of 80.

Native wins respect as advocate for environment  -  Jul 30, 2007
Myrtle Beach Sun News,Helped win a 15-year legal fight to close a hazardous waste landfill at Lake Marion, operated by Laidlaw/Safety Kleen Corp. At one point, Laidlaw had one of

Environmental lawyer works to save hometown, keep friends  -  Jul 29, 2007
Wilmington Morning Star,Helped win a 15-year legal fight to close a hazardous waste landfill at Lake Marion, operated by Laidlaw/Safety Kleen Corp. - Won a landmark case that kept




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