The Environmental Protection Agency is charged with ensuring compliance with the provisions and intent of the law, but it is the states that are often on the front lines of enforcement. Local police departments are the first responders. A conglomera...
Vince Sato of the Los Angeles City Attorney's Office, Environment Protection Section, recounts a case of intentional malicious conduct by a business, which was commonplace several decades ago.
The future of chemical treatment technology is striving to attain the reduction of waste at its source, and seeking to improve the monitoring of that which is discharged.