Hazardous waste is waste that has substantial or potential threats to public health or the environment. Hazardous waste is a type of dangerous goods. They usually have one or more of the following hazardous traits:ignitability,reactivity,corrosivity,toxicity. Listed hazardous wastes are materials specifically listed by regulatory authorities as hazardous wastes which are from non-specific sources,specific sources,or discarded chemical products. Hazardous wastes may be found in different physical states such as gaseous,liquids,or solids. A hazardous waste is a special type of waste because it cannot be disposed of by common means like other by-products of our everyday lives. Depending on the physical state of the waste,treatment and solidification processes might be required.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is an independent agency of the United States government tasked with environmental protection matters. President Richard Nixon proposed the establishment of EPA on July 9,1970;it began operation on December 2,1970,after Nixon signed an executive order. The order establishing the EPA was ratified by committee hearings in the House and Senate.
Marianne Lamont Horinko served as Acting Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) from July 14,2003 to November 5,2003 during the first term of President George W. Bush. Prior to this appointment Horinko was Assistant Administrator for the Office of Solid Waste and Emergency Response (OSWER) at EPA,having been confirmed by the U.S. Senate on October 1,2001. She continued on as Assistant Administrator until June 1,2004.
The administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency is the head of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),and is thus responsible for enforcing the nation's Clean Air and Clean Water Acts,as well as numerous other environmental statutes. The administrator is nominated by the president of the United States and must be confirmed by a vote of the Senate.
The Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) is a United States law,passed by the 94th United States Congress in 1976 and administered by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),that regulates chemicals not regulated by other U.S. federal statutes,including chemicals already in commerce and the introduction of new chemicals. When the TSCA was put into place,all existing chemicals were considered to be safe for use and subsequently grandfathered in. Its three main objectives are to assess and regulate new commercial chemicals before they enter the market,to regulate chemicals already existing in 1976 that posed an "unreasonable risk of injury to health or the environment",as for example PCBs,lead,mercury and radon,and to regulate these chemicals' distribution and use.
Stephen Lee Johnson is an American politician who served as the Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under President George W. Bush during the second term of his administration. He has received the Presidential Rank Award,the highest award that can be given to a civilian federal employee.
The Federal Insecticide,Fungicide,and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) is a United States federal law that set up the basic U.S. system of pesticide regulation to protect applicators,consumers,and the environment. It is administered and regulated by the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the appropriate environmental agencies of the respective states. FIFRA has undergone several important amendments since its inception. A significant revision in 1972 by the Federal Environmental Pesticide Control Act (FEPCA) and several others have expanded EPA's present authority to oversee the sales and use of pesticides with emphasis on the preservation of human health and protection of the environment by "(1) strengthening the registration process by shifting the burden of proof to the chemical manufacturer,(2) enforcing compliance against banned and unregistered products,and (3) promulgating the regulatory framework missing from the original law".
A biopesticide is a biological substance or organism that damages,kills,or repels organisms seen as pests. Biological pest management intervention involves predatory,parasitic,or chemical relationships.
William Kane Reilly was Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency under President George H. W. Bush. He has served as president of World Wildlife Fund,as a founder or advisor to several business ventures,and on many boards of directors. In 2010,he was appointed by President Barack Obama co-chair of the National Commission on the BP Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill and Offshore Drilling to investigate the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico.
W. Michael McCabe is an American policy advisor specializing in environmental and energy policy. He had previously served as a Regional Administrator,and later Deputy Administrator of the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA),being the only person in the Agency's history to serve as both. Between 2003 and 2006,McCabe consulted for DuPont and led DuPont’s defense against an EPA lawsuit of the toxic PFAS chemical PFOA. In November 2020 he was named a volunteer member of the Joe Biden presidential transition Agency Review Team.
John A. Todhunter was an official in the Environmental Protection Agency. He was nominated by Ronald Reagan for the position of Assistant Administrator for Pesticides and Toxic Substances and occupied the post beginning November 13,1981. He resigned March 25,1983,one of a group of 20 officials forced out with EPA Administrator Anne Gorsuch over the agency's management of toxic waste cleanup under Superfund.
Lynn R. Goldman is the Dean of the Milken Institute School of Public Health at George Washington University. She is an American public health physician,a pediatrician and an epidemiologist.
Dicamba is a selective systemic herbicide first registered in 1967. Brand names for formulations of this herbicide include Dianat,Banvel,Diablo,Oracle and Vanquish. This chemical compound is a chlorinated derivative of o-anisic acid.
The Food Quality Protection Act (FQPA),or H.R.1627,was passed unanimously by Congress in 1996 and was signed into law by President Bill Clinton on August 3,1996. The FQPA standardized the way the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) would manage the use of pesticides and amended the Federal Insecticide,Fungicide,and Rodenticide Act and the Federal Food Drug and Cosmetic Act. It mandated a health-based standard for pesticides used in foods,provided special protections for babies and infants,streamlined the approval of safe pesticides,established incentives for the creation of safer pesticides,and required that pesticide registrations remain current.
The environmental policy of the United States is a federal governmental action to regulate activities that have an environmental impact in the United States. The goal of environmental policy is to protect the environment for future generations while interfering as little as possible with the efficiency of commerce or the liberty of the people and to limit inequity in who is burdened with environmental costs. As his first official act bringing in the 1970s,President Richard Nixon signed the U.S. National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA) into law on New Years Day,1970. Also in the same year,America began celebrating Earth Day,which has been called "the big bang of U.S. environmental politics,launching the country on a sweeping social learning curve about ecological management never before experienced or attempted in any other nation." NEPA established a comprehensive US national environmental policy and created the requirement to prepare an environmental impact statement for “major federal actions significantly affecting the quality of the environment.”Author and consultant Charles H. Eccleston has called NEPA the world's “environmental Magna Carta”.
The Science Advisory Board (SAB) is a United States group of independent scientists selected by the Administrator of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The board provides advice to the agency on the scientific and technical aspects of environmental problems and issues. Upon a request by the Administrator,the board reviews the scientific aspects of any reports or other written products prepared by the agency. Congress established the board in the Environmental Research,Development,and Demonstration Authorization Act of 1978.
The United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was established in July 1970 when the White House and the United States Congress came together due to the public's demand for cleaner natural resources. The purpose of the EPA is to repair the damage done to the environment and to set up new criteria to allow Americans to make a clean environment a reality. The ultimate goal of the EPA is to protect human health and the environment.
Pesticide regulation in the United States is primarily a responsibility of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). In America,it was not till the 1950s that pesticides were regulated in terms of their safety. The Pesticides Control Amendment (PCA) of 1954 was the first time Congress passed guidance regarding the establishment of safe limits for pesticide residues on food. It authorized the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to ban pesticides they determined to be unsafe if they were sprayed directly on food. The Food Additives Amendment,which included the Delaney Clause,prohibited the pesticide residues from any carcinogenic pesticides in processed food. In 1959,pesticides were required to be registered.
Craven Laboratories was an American research company based in Austin,Texas.
William Ludwig Wehrum Jr. is an American attorney,lobbyist,and government official who served as Assistant Administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency for Air and Radiation in the Donald Trump administration.
