States take on new role in setting their own environmental agenda

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Delaware, Illinois, Colorado, Utah and New Jersey have signed up for the National Environmental Performance Partnership System, a trial program aimed at redefining the state-federal relationship in environmental protection. Under the program, the states will undertake self-assessments of their environmental programs, after which they will work out with EPA a regulatory program based on the individual state's needs as well as the self-assessment. The program is designed to increase the role of states in deciding their own environmental agenda and to allow the EPA to relinquish some authority to state and local governments.

Environmental Programs, Management, Laws, regulations and rules, United States. Environmental Protection Agency, Environmental protection, State government

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Research, regulations spur development of new CEM incinerator technologies

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Research efforts and proposed regulations are fueling the development of new continuous emissions monitoring (CEM) incinerator technologies. Naval Air Center research chemist Mike Seltzer's CEM system for metals has been tested at Waste Technologies Industries' hazardous waste incinerator in East Liverpool, OH. A program to promote CEM development is ongoing at the Savannah River Plant of the Dept. of Energy. CEM testing of pollutants allows continuous testing and instant emissions measurements, thus lowering the costs of testing waste and operating test burns.

Refuse Incinerators, Industrial Process Furnace and Oven Manufacturing, Measuring & controlling devices, not elsewhere classified, Other Measuring and Controlling Device Manufacturing, Industrial furnaces and ovens, Pollution Test & Measure Eqp, Innovations, Pollution control industry, Incinerators

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States try out "pollution prevention permits."

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The state of New Jersey is currently experimenting with a new system where facility-wide pollution prevention permits are issued to companies in lieu of separate media-specific operating permits. With this scheme, emissions limits are set for each part of the production process but it is up to the company to determine how it will meet the specified limits. State officials contend that their approach aims to shift companies from end-of-pipe solutions towards source-oriented preventive measures.

New Jersey

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