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2. Hazardous waste in the United States - Wikipedia

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   In California, waste oil and materials that contain or are contaminated with waste oil are usually regulated as hazardous wastes if they meet the definition of "Used Oil" even if they do not exhibit any of the characteristics of hazardous waste. The term "used oil" is a legal term which means any oil that has been refined from crude oil, or any ...

3. Chemical dumps in ocean off Southern California - Wikipedia

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   From the 1930s until the early 1970s, multiple government agencies (including the California Regional Water Quality Control Board and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers) approved ocean disposal of domestic, industrial, and military waste at 14 deep-water sites off the coast of Southern California. Waste disposed included refinery wastes, filter ...

4. List of Superfund sites in California - Wikipedia

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   This is a list of Superfund sites in California 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 ...

5. Los Angeles wildfires: California cities vow to ‘shut down ...

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   Multiple cities in Southern California are vowing to "shut down" a site being used by the Environmental Protection Agency to collect and process hazardous waste from the devastating Eaton Fire ...

6. Waste oil - Wikipedia

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   Used oil" is a precise regulatory term. "Waste oil" is a more generic term for oil that has been contaminated with substances that may or may not be hazardous. [1] Any oil contaminated with hazardous waste may itself be a hazardous waste, and if so, must be managed subject to hazardous waste management standards.

7. Walmart faces $7.5-million penalty for dumping hazardous and ...

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   Walmart could pay up to $7.5 million in penalties following a 2021 lawsuit alleging the retailer dumped over 80 tons of hazardous waste in California landfills.

8. California's effort to plug abandoned, chemical-spewing oil ...

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   California will use the funding to plug and remediate 206 high-risk orphaned oil and gas wells and decommission 47 attendant production facilities with about 70,000 feet of associated pipelines.

9. California Department of Toxic Substances Control - Wikipedia

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   The Hazardous Waste Control Act of 1972 [3] established legal standards for hazardous waste. Accordingly, in 1972, the Department of Health Services (now called the California Health and Human Services Agency) created a hazardous waste management unit, staffing it in 1973 with five employees concerned primarily with developing regulations and setting fees for the disposal of hazardous waste.