Massachusetts aims to eliminate permits for 70% of businesses

Article Abstract:

Massachusetts will launch by the end of 1996 the 'Environmental Results Program,' a self-certification system that seeks to eliminate state environmental permits for 70% of businesses. It aims to save state money and provide companies with greater latitude in deciding how to control emissions. The plan calls for the setting of emissions limits for categories of pollution and polluters by state regulators to replace the existing technology-specific, individually suited permits for each pollution source. It also requires CEOs to sign a contract annually certifying that their firms are meeting the limits.

Air Pollution Control-State, Laws, regulations and rules, Air pollution control, Massachusetts, Environmental permits

---

New Jersey, Southern California programs, agencies face cuts

Article Abstract:

Efforts at environmental protection are threatened by funding cuts to top state and regional environmental programs and agencies. Environmentalists and other groups cite the budget cuts by 30% since 1993 for New Jersey's Dept. of Environmental Protection. The reductions affected a number of programs, including the Science and Research Division and the Office of Pollution Prevention's permitting program. Southern California's South Coast Air Quality Management District also suffered a 15% decrease in funding since 1991. Its budget is also planned to be reduced by 50% until 2006.

Pollution Control-State & Local, Administration of Environmental Quality Programs, Resources, Environ & Energy-State-Lcl, Finance, Pollution control, Environmental protection, Natural resource policy, California. South Coast Air Quality Management District, New Jersey. Department of Environmental Protection

---

Similar abstracts:

• Abstracts: Shuttle mission to seek antimatter. Climate warms a bit for NASA mission
• Abstracts: Europe's science powerhouses face limits to growth. An egalitarian system straining at the seams. An elite system struggles with mass education
• Abstracts: Case study of organochlorine pesticides in the indoor air of a home. Organic pollutant accumulation in vegetation
• Abstracts: Spatial and temporal variation in isotopic composition of atmospheric lead in Norwegian moss. Atmospheric deposition of PCBs to moss (Hylocomium splendens) in Norway between 1977 and 1990
• Abstracts: Binding of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons by size classes of particulate in Hamilton Harbor water. Floc architecture in wastewater and natural riverine systems

This website is not affiliated with document authors or copyright owners. This page is provided for informational purposes only. Unintentional errors are possible.