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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 ...
The following is a list of diesel-electric locomotives that meet or exceed EPA Tier 4 locomotive emissions regulations. Pages in category "EPA Tier 4-compliant locomotives of the United States" The following 5 pages are in this category, out of 5 total.
New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) are pollution control standards issued by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The term is used in the Clean Air Act Extension of 1970 (CAA) to refer to air pollution emission standards, and in the Clean Water Act (CWA) referring to standards for water pollution discharges of industrial wastewater to surface waters.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. [2] President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9, 1970; it began operation on December 2, 1970, after Nixon signed an executive order. [3]
The EPA was also blamed for missing legal deadlines to revise the RVO targets. Some say this introduced market uncertainty, harming both consumers and producers. The EPA made this announcement in May to meet a June 1, 2015 deadline established by the settlement to a lawsuit brought by fossil fuel and chemical trade associations. The EPA ...
The input file can include data describing network topology, water consumption, and control rules, and is supported by many free and commercial modeling packages. While EPANET is used as the computational engine for most water distribution system models, most models are developed and maintained in hydraulic modeling packages based on EPANET's ...
EPA issued guidance to states on implementing the new GHG guidelines. EPA Fact Sheet: January 2011 New GHG air permitting began for facilities that would have to go through air permitting for non-GHG pollutants anyway. EPA GHG Permitting Fact Sheet: January 2011 EPA proposed a three-year deferral of GHG permitting for facilities that use biomass.
On a national level, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) oversees a variety of waste issues under the mandate of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. These include regulation of hazardous wastes, landfill regulations, [2] and setting recycling goals. [citation needed]