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  2. Resource Conservation and Recovery Act - Wikipedia

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    RCRA laws and regulations from the EPA; RCRA summary from the EPA; As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 82 of the United States Code from the LII; As codified in 42 U.S.C. chapter 82 of the United States Code from the US House of Representatives; Solid Waste Disposal Act aka RCRA (PDF/details) as amended in the GPO Statute Compilations collection

  3. Solid waste policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Solid Waste Tree, Based on Resource Conservation and Recovery Act, United States Environmental Protection Agency. Solid waste means any garbage or refuse, sludge from a wastewater treatment plant, water supply treatment plant, or an air pollution control facility and other discarded material, including solid, liquid, semi-solid, or contained gaseous material resulting from industrial ...

  4. Mercury regulation in the United States - Wikipedia

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    In general, RCRA regulations are waste-specific, not source-specific, and thus may apply to any facility that generates mercury-containing wastes. RCRA regulations assign specific waste codes to five types of wastes that are either "characteristic" wastes or "listed" wastes. Mercury is both a characteristic and a listed waste under RCRA. [40]

  5. United States Environmental Protection Agency - Wikipedia

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    The system is largely managed by state agencies under EPA authorization. Standards were issued for waste treatment, storage and disposal facilities (TSDFs), and ocean dumping of waste was prohibited. [154]: 2–4 In 1984 Congress passed the Hazardous and Solid Waste Amendments (HSWA) which expanded several aspects of the RCRA program: [155]

  6. Free cash flow - Wikipedia

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    In financial accounting, free cash flow (FCF) or free cash flow to firm (FCFF) is the amount by which a business's operating cash flow exceeds its working capital needs and expenditures on fixed assets (known as capital expenditures). [1]

  7. Environmental policy of the United States - Wikipedia

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    Alternatively, the government can use inducements, or "market reform". Inducements are rewards and punishments used to influence people or groups. The two major types of market reforms are charge systems, such as emissions taxes, and "tradable permit systems". One type of tradable permit system is an "auction of pollution rights" in which the ...

  8. Fracking in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Environmental Protection Agency illustration of the water cycle of hydraulic fracturing. Fracking in the United States began in 1949. [1] According to the Department of Energy (DOE), by 2013 at least two million oil and gas wells in the US had been hydraulically fractured, and that of new wells being drilled, up to 95% are hydraulically fractured.

  9. Enterprise search - Wikipedia

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    The search is generally offered only to users internal to the company. [1] [2] Enterprise search can be contrasted with web search, which applies search technology to documents on the open web, and desktop search, which applies search technology to the content on a single computer.