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In the United States, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulates household, industrial, manufacturing, and commercial solid and hazardous wastes under the 1976 Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). [2] Effective solid waste management is a cooperative effort involving federal, state, regional, and local entities. [3]
The deputy secretary for Waste, Air, Radiation, and Remediation plans, directs and coordinates the department's programs related to air quality, waste management, radiation protection, and environmental cleanup. The bureaus of Waste Management, Radiation Protection, Air Quality, and Environmental Cleanup & Brownfields are housed here. [7]
The first environmental statute was the Rivers and Harbors Act of 1899, which has been largely superseded by the Clean Water Act (CWA). However, most current major environmental statutes, such as the federal statutes listed above, were passed in the time spanning the late 1960s through the early 1980s.
An Act to provide technical and financial assistance for the development of management plans and facilities for the recovery of energy and other resources from discarded materials and for the safe disposal of discarded materials, and to regulate the management of hazardous waste. Acronyms (colloquial) RCRA: Nicknames: Solid Waste Utilization Act
Greater Greensburg Sewage Authority has invested more than $15 million in capital improvements [32] to the treatment plant and sewer system over the past twenty years, including expanding the plant from its former capacity of 2.5 million gallons a day to its current capacity, and separating storm and sanitary sewer lines per the Stormwater ...
Clean Air Act (CAA) Clean Water Act (CWA) Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) Coastal Zone Management Act (CZMA) Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act
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 ...
Solid Waste Disposal Act of 1965; Solid waste policy of the United States; List of Superfund sites; U. Uranium Mill Tailings Radiation Control Act; W. Willie Tax