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This is a list of Superfund sites in Nevada designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law. 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]
Waste Management has said that the plant, announced in April 2008, and built and operated by The Linde Group with state funding, is the world's largest facility to convert landfill gas into vehicle fuel. [40] [41] [42] Waste Management works with environmental groups in the U.S. to set aside land to create and manage wetlands and wildlife habitats.
According to Benchmarkia, Tahoe-Reno Industrial Centre is the sixth largest industrial park by area in the world. [6] Facilities include rail-serviced sites with Union Pacific Railroad and BNSF Railway, municipal water and sewer, natural gas service, and five power plants on site producing more than 900 megawatts (1,200,000 hp). [1] [7] [8]
After purchasing Houston-based giant waste hauler Browning-Ferris Industries (BFI) in 1999, together with private equity firms the Blackstone Group and Apollo Management, [1] Allied Waste Industries, Inc. became the second largest non-hazardous solid waste management company in the United States (behind industry leader Waste Management, Inc ...
The California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (also known as CalRecycle) is a branch of the California Environmental Protection Agency that oversees the state's waste management, recycling, and waste reduction programs. CalRecycle was established in 2010 to replace the California Integrated Waste Management Board.
Local newspaper, the Leduc Representative (the Leduc Rep), and the regional newspaper, the Leduc-Wetaskiwin Pipestone Flyer, serve Leduc. Leduc's first FM radio station, CJLD-FM, began in 2013 and is known on-air as "93.1 The One". An internet-based community radio station, branded "Leduc Radio" since 2008, also serves the city.
The Reno–Sparks Metropolitan Statistical Area, as defined by the United States Census Bureau, is an area consisting of two counties in Western Nevada, anchored by the cities of Reno and Sparks. As of the 2020 census , the MSA had a population of 490,596.
KONE was sold to its present owners, Lotus, in 1967 for $135,000, marking the company's entry into the Reno radio market. [10] Among the features of K-ONE's programming in the late 1960s was a three-hour, commercial-free, underground music show aired at night. [ 11 ]