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2. List of Superfund sites in Washington (state) - Wikipedia

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   The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1] These locations are known as Superfund sites, and are placed on the National Priorities List (NPL).

3. Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump - Wikipedia

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   Alkali Lake Chemical Waste Dump is a hazardous waste disposal site near the southwest edge of Alkali Lake, a seasonally dry playa in Lake County, Oregon. It is in the Summer Lake watershed. [1] The site has been the focus of Oregon Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) efforts to remediate a complex mix of toxic chemicals. Problems were ...

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. Clean Harbors - Wikipedia

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   The company had one truck and four employees who transported and disposed of hazardous wastes for local businesses, and over time expanded to offer emergency hazardous waste cleaning services and industrial waste disposal, as well as ongoing management of hazardous material sites. Revenues continued to climb approaching $50 million in 1986.

6. Hazardous waste in the United States - 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 in 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 ...

7. Toxic waste - Wikipedia

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   Disposal is the placement of waste into or on the land. Disposal facilities are usually designed to permanently contain waste and prevent the release of harmful pollutants to the environment. [citation needed] The most common hazardous waste disposal practice is placement in a land disposal unit such as a landfill, surface impoundment, waste ...

8. List of waste disposal incidents - Wikipedia

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   Khian Sea waste disposal incident: 1986 Kingston Fossil Plant coal fly ash slurry spill: coal fly ash slurry spill 2008 United States 2015 Gold King Mine waste water spill: acid mine waste spill 2015 United States Gold mine at Kingston, Queensland: toxic waste Australia Lake Karachay: radioactive waste dump site Russia Love Canal: toxic waste dump

9. Waste management law - Wikipedia

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   Waste management laws govern the transport, treatment, storage, and disposal of all manner of waste, including municipal solid waste, hazardous waste, and nuclear waste, among many other types. Waste laws are generally designed to minimize or eliminate the uncontrolled dispersal of waste materials into the environment in a manner that may cause ...