...where the U.S. Army made mustard gas during World War II was once on the Superfund list of high-priority hazardous waste sites. Its transformation, completed in 2010, was no easy journey. But Tom Dougherty, a former regional director of the...
Let's get this repository built and performing the job Congress intended for it to do
...Nevada Democrat.In the debate, Paul said the nuclear waste site was a state rights issue. "And then we get involved...than $1 billion into a trust fund to set up a permanent waste site, including decades of material generated at the Savannah...
...likely death of a planned nuclear waste site at Nevada's Yucca Mountain has...about a high-level radioactive waste site coming to their neighborhood...nation's only active deep underground waste site is the Waste Isolation Pilot Project...
...creation of the solid-waste trust fund and a tire-recovery fund to serve as a source to cover the costs of cleaning up waste sites. Joshua's Law created another fund, named for a teenager killed in a car crash, that is supposed to pay for driver-education...
...meant for important programs.In the early 1990s, lawmakers approved two pools of money to help clean up hazardous waste sites, update unlined landfills, improve solid waste collection and recycling and get rid of dumps along roads and streams...
Yucca Mountain's termination will have lingering effect on nuclear waste in Georgia and South Carolina.
A contention by environmental groups that Southern Nuclear's plan to add reactors at Plant Vogtle did not adequately address storage issues was rejected this week.
...there's serious business, too. Hospital police have the unique responsibility of guarding the biohazardous and chemical waste sites on campus, along with other materials protected under federal guidelines.Law enforcement in 19 counties send their...
...decades of nuclear weapons production, was stored in 15,605 drums that were to be disposed of at an EnergySolutions waste site in Clive, Utah.After the first shipment-5,408 drums-was sent to Utah in December, the state's governor protested...
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