A typical case study: solid waste management in petroleum refineries.
INTRODUCTION There is a four fold increase in natural calamities in last two decades reported in press due to increase in pollution levels that is major concern for the future sustainable growth for man and its habitat. The mammoth growth of petroleum products processing have resulted in...

Air emissions standards and guidelines under the Clean Air Act for the incineration of hospital, medical, and infectious waste.
I. INTRODUCTION Approximately 2400 hospital/medical/infectious waste incinerators (HMIWIs) operate in the United States, and they combust about 846,000 tons of hospital/medical/infectious waste (HMIW) each year.(1) The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) estimated that there are approximately 1139 small, 692 medium, and 463 large HMIWIs, as well as 79...

Solid waste management in petroleum refineries.
INTRODUCTION The high rate of growth of petroleum products processing have resulted in the generation of enormous amount of waste that poses a serious threat to environmental quality on the mother earth and its inhabitants. The depletion of natural resources reinforces the need to utilize the reminder...

Safe Food and Fertilizer.
For five years, one small-town housewife-turned-mayor and four farmers--each suffering health problems caused by industrial wastes--worked diligently and cooperatively to unravel one of the fertilizer industries' best kept secrets. The information gathered became the basis for the 1997 Seattle Times series "Fear in the Fields: How Hazardous Wastes Become...

Case summaries.
I. ENVIRONMENTAL QUALITY A. Hazardous Waste 1. A & W Smelter & Refiners, Inc. v. Clinton, 1246 F.3d 1107 (9th Cir. 1998). A & W Smelter (A & W) possessed an ore pile at its processing facility in the Mojave Desert. The ore...

From Wasteland to Wonderland.
GEPIL is standing true to the test of waste management and resource recycling in South Gujarat and India Gujarat Enviro Protection and Infrastructure Limited (GEPIL) is a Luthra Group of Company, engaged in the business of developing, operating and maintaining Enviro Infrastructure Projects on DBOO (Design, Built,...

EPA Cites Joyner's Die Casting & Plating for Hazardous Waste Violations.
CHICAGO, April 5 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 recently filed a complaint and compliance order against Joyner's Die Casting & Plating, Inc. (Brooklyn Park, Minn.), for alleged violations of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). A $124,157 fine is proposed. The...

EPA Environmental Enforcement Highlights for Minnesota.
CHICAGO, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 today announced that its enforcement actions in Minnesota in 2006 have caused regulated entities to pay more than $1.1 million to correct past environmental violations and help prevent future ones. In the past fiscal year, EPA...

Hazardous waste drowning ground water.
Byline: Neha Kohli NEW DELHI: India generates enough untreated hazardous waste to cover the whole of Delhi. Going by the latest report of the hazardous waste management committee of the Supreme Court, there are only 10 independent operational treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDF) for industrial hazardous...

Green Oasis Environmental (GRNO) in U.K. Agreement with London-Based Environmental Energy Consulting.
CHARLESTON, S.C., July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- Green Oasis Environmental, Inc. (OTC Bulletin Board: GRNO) announced today the signing on April 25, 2001 of an Exclusive Representation and Operating Agreement with Environmental Energy Consulting Ltd. (EEC). This agreement allows EEC to market GRNO's proprietary technology within the United...