Under the policy change, state monitors would be required only at commercial hazardous waste landfills.

He said other states, with their bans on hazardous waste landfills, were more to blame.

"Even if it were, what they're asking is to put it into hazardous waste landfills.

It is also home to one of the two most toxic hazardous waste landfills in all of Switzerland.

The current proposal calls for the excavation of six heavily contaminated spots, with the material taken to hazardous waste landfills.

Children living on landfills hazardous waste landfill.

Coterin had planned to develop a hazardous waste landfill on the site but were unable to secure the necessary permits from the local government.

The question of providing environmental justice by dispersing hazardous waste landfills throughout the state was first raised by the Legislature in 1987.

Hazardous waste landfill sites may not be able to take all types of hazardous waste.

These standards help minimize short and long-term threats to human health and the environment, which directly benefits local communities where hazardous waste landfills are located.

The new school has been built on a hazardous waste landfill at the Glebelands in the western part of St Julians.

Implementation of this process also reduces the amount of soil that must be disposed of in a hazardous waste landfill.

The largest commercial hazardous waste landfill in the nation is situated in Emelle, Ala., where blacks make up 78.9 percent of the population.

Hazardous waste landfill (sequestering, isolation, etc.)

Because the wood in the old boardwalk was chemically treated, storm-damaged timbers had to be disposed of at great cost at hazardous waste landfills.

More than a decade of consolidation has left just a handful of commercial hazardous waste landfills in the country, which, they say, is not necessarily a bad thing.

The town is known for being the site of the largest hazardous waste landfill in the United States, operated by Waste Management, Inc.

Typically, in non hazardous waste landfills, in order to meet predefined specifications, techniques are applied by which the wastes are:

The study revealed, " Three of the four commercial hazardous waste landfills in the Southeast United States were located in majority black communities."

The Chemical Waste site is the only commercial hazardous waste landfill in the Northeast and contains some of the contaminated soil from Love Canal.

Expected Impact at Site Mrs. Robertson said Alabama's ban would affect the hazardous waste landfill at Emelle, the nation's largest.

Disposing of ash in licensed hazardous waste landfills, which have double plastic linings, sophisticated moisture collection systems and tighter operating procedures, can cost $200 to $500 a ton, they said.

The state selected the Shocco Township to host a hazardous waste landfill containing 30,000 cubic yards of polychlorinated biphenyl (PCB)-contaminated soil.

Waste Management Inc., the world's biggest waste handler, says it has offered $2.5 million to settle a lawsuit filed over a hazardous waste landfill in this southern Illinois town.

Mr. Rocco said officials at the Warren County incinerator in Oxford Township have had to ship hazardous ash to a New York State hazardous waste landfill.