hazardous waste

People of color, often in the lowest-paid jobs, are forced into the cheapest housing, which tends to be next to the busiest streets, in communities closer to polluting industries and hazardous waste sites.

AB 762 requires charter schools and private schools to follow the same siting requirements as public schools for evaluating a school site for potential hazardous substances, hazardous emissions, or hazardous waste.

Once again, utilities escaped the hazardous waste label for coal ash.

Given those low percentages and the limited oversight by states, EPA officials recommended tougher coal ash regulations — ones that stopped short of reclassifying coal ash as a hazardous waste.

The EPA considered whether coal ash should be classified as a hazardous waste.

This will provide for a "super-fund" to cover hazardous waste cleanup costs.

One of the most pressing problems to come to light in the past four years has been improper hazardous waste disposal.

To reduce the threat posed by abandoned hazardous waste dumps, EPA will spend $410 million.