Legal

The U.S. economy has been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic – especially small businesses...

The California Office of Administrative Law (OAL) has disapproved a rulemaking package of the California Department of Resources Recycling and Recovery (CalRecycle) that contains proposed regulations for implementation of SB-1383, a law set to...

By hiding the real costs of landfills to the public, the true value of recycling is hidden, as well as the critical gains from avoiding environmental disasters associated with releases from waste containment. Bad decisions will follow from...

The National Waste & Recycling Association (NWRA) and several of its member companies joined with dozens of other national, state, and local organizations and companies on a letter to congressional leaders urging the suspension of the 12 percent...

With a population of 1.6 million, Phoenix, Ariz., is the fifth largest city in the United States.  Even its suburbs are jumbo-sized.  Tempe, which hosts the main campus of Arizona State University, is larger than Chattanooga, Tenn.  Mesa, the...

Chemours alleged that DuPont lowballed the cost of environmental liabilities Chemours would face in reimbursing DuPont for PFAS-related pollution.

The act could have forced the closure of the city’s waste incinerators, Wheelabrator Baltimore and Curtis Bay Medical Waste Services.

The policy addresses different categories of noncompliance differently.

Groups are filing lawsuits to stop the incineration of PFAS compounds.

The law, which is enforced at the state level, prohibits retail stores from providing single-use plastic bags, with some exceptions.