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The Cohoes Common Council has passed a local law putting a levy on the income received by Norlite for its treatment and disposal of hazardous waste.
Cohoes Mayor Bill Keeler says Local Law 5 imposes a 4 percent assessment on gross receipts of any hazardous waste facility in the city. New York State Environmental Conservation law allows a host community to impose an annual assessment of up to 4% on the gross receipts of any commercial Hazardous Waste Facility located in the municipality.
Keeler says the city continues its scrutiny of Norlite s operations after discovering earlier this year that toxic firefighting foam was being burned in its kiln.
Posted By Kali Cozyris on Tue, Dec 15, 2020 at 11:24 AM A new rule, effective January 1, 2021, will no longer allow the landfill disposal of treated wood waste wood that has been treated with chemical preservatives that pose a risk to human health and the environment. A news release from the Humboldt County Department of Health & Human Services this morning stated that transfer station employees have been instructed by the state to reject any treated wood waste after Dec. 31, 2020, and households and businesses will be required to dispose of treated wood as hazardous waste after that time. Treated wood waste comes from old wood that has been treated with chemical preservatives. These chemicals help protect the wood from insect attack and fungal decay while it’s being used. Fence posts, sill plates, landscape timbers, pilings, guardrails and decking are examples of chemically treated wood. TWW contains hazardous chemicals that
environmental cops. ten years ago they said they had more problems with john menard and his company than with any other wisconsin company. they cited him and his company, menards menards, at least 13 times over three decades for ignoring or violating problems. he was caught on video dumping arsenic-laden hazardous waste ashes from one of his lumber plants. instead of paying for the stuff to go to a hazardous waste facility, apparently john menard would just bag up the waste, bring it home to his house and put it in his trash at home. it would just go to the landfill. john menard ended up paying a
nobody s given us answers and children continue to be born sick. reporter: we want to emphasize that there has been no official connection between the hazardous waste facility and the alarming number of birth defects. also, the lawsuit filed against kings county is still pending. here s what waste management told us once the epa s findings were released. the epa, quote, detected very low levels of pcbs con find to the inside of a pcb storage and flushing building and a small area of soil adjacent to the storage building. the inside of the building has already been cleaned, according to to epa standards, and the affected soil will be immediately cleaned to meet epa requirements. epa also noted three paperwork violations which have already been addressed. recently completed monitoring of air soil and vegetation at the site has confirmed that the pcbs storied and treated at the facility have no impact on human health and the environment. the health and safety of