Once fully implemented, the pollution controls required by the settlement are estimated to reduce harmful air emissions of VOCs by more than 5,600 tons per year. The settlement is also expected to reduce toxic air pollutants, including benzene, by nearly 500 tons per year.
Read moreCarville National Leather Corporation was a family owned tannery business that operated in Johnstown, New York, from 1976 until it closed in September 2013. Robert Carville owned and operated the business for approximately 10 years prior to its closure.
Read moreGreene’s job was to transport the liquid runoff from solid waste at an Eastover landfill to the Florence Wastewater Management Facility. Instead, he illegally dumped the liquid runoff, or ‘leachate,’ into the Leesburg Branch Creek on multiple occasions in mid-2017.
Read moreAccording to the charges, he used that business to prepare fictitious order forms and invoices showing purchases purportedly made on behalf of Dexter Field Services for equipment, replacement parts, and tools. He is charged with having received more than $400,000 from Dexter Field Services as a result of these fraudulent documents. He allegedly caused these checks to be deposited in a BC Environmental bank account and used the money for his personal benefit.
Read moreThe Draft Bill also places a duty on the government to formulate and implement policy and laws with regard to “the welfare needs of animals as sentient beings.” (Draft Bill.) In discharging this duty, the government must continue to have regard to the public interest. The government has stated: “there was never any question that our policies on animal welfare are driven by the fact that animals are sentient beings … . I am keen to reinforce this in legislation as we leave the EU.” (Id. at 4.)
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