Remove Clean Air Act Remove Pollution Control Remove Recycling Remove Waste
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Other 2023 N.C. Environmental Legislation

Smith Enviorment

Some background — As required by the Clean Air Act, North Carolina has a State Implementation Plan (SIP) for ozone pollution describing how the state will meet the federal ozone standard. SOLID WASTE Disposal of lithium- ion batteries. million to $865.9 Limit the vehicle emission inspection program.

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Environmental Perspectives

Environmental Science

Million tons/yr of waste: 7,600 industrial, 250 municipal, 25 hazardous. 1,900 landfills, 21 for hazardous waste. 100 nuclear reactors; 2,000 tons/yr nuclear waste. For example, most states now have optional “lookup tables” to look up the action trigger concentrations for groundwater and soils related to hazardous waste sites.

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USA: “The Coke Side of Life”—More Sugar, Less Science

Corp Watch

Earth Island Institute and Plastic Pollution Coalition Take On Big Plastic Plastic Pollution Coalition | February 27, 2020 “The Coca-Cola Company and our other defendants churn out millions of tons of plastic packaging each year and want us to believe that it is all being recycled.

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