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Pragmatic choices.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Allan Gerlat The Obama Green Team is in place. And now we'll see just how much greener the United States will get in the years to come. The president-elect named Steven Chu energy secretary, Lisa Jackson as head of the Environmental Protection Agency, Nancy ...
Strange invaders; Group raids Enviro Defense office to protest policies.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman A group of more than a dozen environmental activists briefly staged a protest at the Washington offices of the more mainstream group Environmental Defense on Dec. 1. The angry activists led by Rachel Smolker, who said she is the daughter of ...
Personnel.(Blue square energy appoints Joseph Babin)(Case construction equipment appoints Danny McGaugh)(City carton recycling appoints Jason Lee)(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2008 ... BLUE SQUARE ENERGY Joseph Babin named president and CEO. CASE CONSTRUCTION EQUIPMENT Danny McGaugh named vice president and general manager. CITY CARTON RECYCLING Jason Lee named regional sales manager for the Cedar Rapids, Iowa, territory. CONSERVATION ...
Letters.(Letter to the editor)
Dec 22, 2008 ... Reagan enthusiasts I read your column in Waste News regularly, sometimes in agreement and sometimes not. You provide thoughtful insight whether I agree or disagree, and that insight is valuable for its own sake. As a strong conservative, I have my reservations about ...
California sees big jump in container recycling.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Joe Truini California has boosted its container recycling rate to 76% for the first half of 2008 and is on pace for a record year, according to the state Department of Conservation. From January to June, Californians recycled 7.6 billion beverage containers, ...
Justice Dept. files suit against N.Y. dry cleaner.(Brief article)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The U.S. Justice Department has filed a civil complaint in federal court seeking more than $1.7 million under the Superfund law from a former operator of the American Drive-In Cleaners in Levittown, N.Y., as well as a trust that currently owns the ...
Not scrap's finest hour.
Dec 22, 2008 ... A "60 Minutes'' segment on electronic scrap being dumped in China and causing serious human health risks has heated up the long-standing controversy. It's given the scrap industry another public relations black eye at best and endangered essential export business at worst. ...
Johnson's parting gift.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Controlling greenhouse gas emissions, already a complicated issue on many levels, got a little more complex for the future with the ruling last week by EPA administrator Stephen Johnson that the federal government cannot do so by using the Clean Air Act. The decision predictably ...
Clean Harbors Inc. forms property development unit.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Jim Johnson Clean Harbors Inc., a company known for its environmental and hazardous waste management services, is getting into the property development business. A new company subsidiary, Clean Harbors Development LLC, is being created to develop portions of ...
Report says U.S. EPA needs to streamline threat assessments.(Report)
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency needs to streamline its process of generating risk assessments that estimate the potential threats posed by chemicals in the environment, according to new report from the National Research Council, part of the ...
EPA finalizes exemption for farm manure.(Environmental Protection Agency)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The U.S. EPA has finalized a rule that exempts farms from having to report air releases of hazardous substances from manure. The new exemption for emissions related to animal manure will reduce reporting burdens on farmers and enable response ...
Obama's picks get thumbs-up.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman President-elect Barack Obama's selections of key energy and environment officials received a mixed but mostly positive reaction from both environmentalists and the business community. Obama introduced the energy and environment officials he ...
Obama urged to enforce water act.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman Two House committee chairmen have written a letter urging President-elect Barack Obama to beef up enforcement of the Clean Water Act once his administration takes office next month. Reps. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and James Oberstar, D-Minn., who ...
E-waste report draws industry fire.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Joe Truini Apparently, an hour was not enough time to cover electronic waste exports. The dust seemed to have settled following a Nov. 9 segment on the CBS TV news program "60 Minutes'' titled "Following the Trail of Toxic E-waste.'' The scathing story ...
Inbox.(scrap metal industry)(Report)
Dec 22, 2008; ... Byline: Pete Fehrenbach Mixed Metal News from China: The Atlantic Monthly has posted on its Web site a slide show illustrating the scrap-metal market meltdown in China: www.theatlantic.com/doc/200812u/china-scrap-photos Among the report's interesting points is this: ...
Midnight memo; EPA affirms GHG stance.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Byline: Bruce Geiselman The federal government cannot use the Clean Air Act to regulate greenhouse gas emissions from power plants or other buildings, according to a memorandum released Dec. 18 by EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson. Democrats and environmentalists have ...
New Products.
Dec 22, 2008 ... ONSET COMPUTER CORP. has announced improvements to its Web-based energy and environmental monitoring software HoboLink. Features include expanded data scaling, enhanced rainfall graphs and signal strength indicator. The measurement accuracy of the Hobo Water Level data loggers now ...
At Deadline.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Obama fills Interior, Agriculture slots President-elect Barack Obama will nominate former Iowa Gov. Tom Vilsack as secretary of agriculture and Sen. Ken Salazar, D-Colo., as secretary of the interior. Environmental and conservation groups, including the Sierra Club ...
WN to boost scrap, recycling coverage.
Dec 22, 2008 ... Beginning with its next issue, Waste News will increase its coverage of the scrap and recycling business, and will alter its name to reflect that shift. In 2009 we will publish a special section on scrap 18 times a year, beginning in February. The section will be an addition of ...
A look back.
Dec 22, 2008 ... 10 years ago: Pesticide makers and local and state waste officials remain far apart on how to tell consumers to dispose of bug spray. 5 years ago: The federal government proposes rules for trimming electric power that would bring about the ...