Waste Management
North Carolina 2025-2026 Session
NC Managing Environmental Waste Act of 2025 [HB-8]
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[Waste Management / Recycling ]
NC Managing Environmental Waste Act of 2025
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary G. Belk
Ref To Com On Rules And Operations Of The Senate on 07/31/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Landfills. [HB-878]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Extends the landfill buffer zone from one-half mile to one mile. Requires the landfill buffer zone to apply to lands in the state conservation district and lands designated as national conservation areas. Effective 7/1/3000. (HD1)
Sponsored by: Rep. Scot Z. Matayoshi
Reported From Wal (stand. Com. Rep. No. 311) As Amended In Hd 1, Recommending Passage On Second Reading And Referral To Jha. on 02/10/2025
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Hawaii 2025 Regular Session
Relating To Waste Management. [SB-446]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Beginning 7/1/2025, prohibits the construction, modification, or expansion of a landfill unit or any component of a landfill unit mauka of the underground injection control line without first establishing a buffer zone of not less than one-quarter mile around the landfill unit. Prohibits the utilization of fly ash, bottom ash, or a combination of fly and bottom ash from a municipal waste combustor, including any ash residue that remains after removal of metals for recycling into new metal products, for the purposes of road building, construction,
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Sponsored by: Sen. Donovan Dela Cruz
Pass First Reading on 03/06/2025
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Kentucky 2025 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to waste management districts. [HB-88]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Amend KRS 109.115 to allow a member serving on a waste management district board in a county containing a consolidated local government to serve until his or her successor is appointed, not to exceed 60 days after the expiration of his or her term; require that the board director's position be vacated after the 60-day period; provide that on the effective date of the Act, any current director on a waste management district board in a county containing a consolidated local government who has exceeded 60 days on the board after expiration of his or
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Sponsored by: Rep. John F. Hodgson
To Natural Resources & Energy (s) on 03/04/2025
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
Litter Reduction Act of 2024 [HB-978]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Litter Reduction Act of 2024
Sponsored by: Rep. Mary G. Belk
Passed 1st Reading on 05/06/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Health And Encouraging The County Of Maui, United States Army Corps Of Engineers, And Federal Emergency Management Agency To Take Certain Measures To Ensure The Safest Possible Management Of Ash And Debris From The August 2023 Maui Wildfires. [SCR-167]
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[Grants ]
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Urging The Department Of Health And Encouraging The County Of Maui, United States Army Corps Of Engineers, And Federal Emergency Management Agency To Take Certain Measures To Ensure The Safest Possible Management Of Ash And Debris From The August 2023 Maui Wildfires.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald D. Kouchi
Referred To Hhs/psm. on 03/14/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Urging The Department Of Health And Encouraging The County Of Maui, United States Army Corps Of Engineers, And Federal Emergency Management Agency To Take Certain Measures To Ensure The Safest Possible Management Of Ash And Debris From The August 2023 Maui Wildfires. [SR-141]
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[Funding ]
[Grants ]
[Public Safety ]
Urging The Department Of Health And Encouraging The County Of Maui, United States Army Corps Of Engineers, And Federal Emergency Management Agency To Take Certain Measures To Ensure The Safest Possible Management Of Ash And Debris From The August 2023 Maui Wildfires.
Sponsored by: Sen. Ronald D. Kouchi
Referred To Hhs/psm. on 03/14/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol. [SR-94]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura
Certified Copies Of Resolution Sent, 05-31-24 on 05/31/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol. [SCR-112]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Demanding The Department Of Accounting And General Services To Develop A Comprehensive Recycling Program, With Specific Focus On The Collection Of Hi-5 Recyclable Items, To Be Implemented In All Offices At The Hawaii State Capitol.
Sponsored by: Sen. Joy A. San Buenaventura
Referred To Lmg, Fin, Referral Sheet 27 on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solid waste management. [HB-706]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
Amend KRS 224.1-010 to restrict residual wastes in the definition of "municipal solid waste disposal facility" and define "residual waste" and "residual waste facility"; amend KRS 224.40-315 to require the generator of a residual solid waste and the location of the residual waste site or facility to be located in the same county to qualify for the exception from local determination; restrict the owner of a residual waste site or facility from accepting industrial wastes from other facilities outside of the county and then disposing of those wastes
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Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to the environmental remediation fee and making an appropriation therefor. [HB-773]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Budget and Spending ]
[Funding ]
Amend KRS 224.43-500 to increase the environmental remediation fee from $1.75 to $2.00; amend KRS 224.43-505 to allocate 50 percent of the environmental remediation fee collected from residual waste facilities to the county where the facility is located and that remaining 50 percent to the Kentucky Heritage Land Conservation fund; APPROPRIATION.
Sponsored by: Rep. Rebecca Raymer
Introduced In House on 02/26/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to environmental emergencies. [HB-583]
[Environmental ]
[Public Safety ]
Amends KRS 224.1-401 to require that the chief executive officers of all forms of local government and mayors receive notification of a declaration of an environmental emergency in their jurisdiction.
Sponsored by: Rep. Michael Lee Meredith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 60) on 04/04/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to waste management districts. [HB-565]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Amend KRS 109.115 to allow a director on a waste management district board to serve until his or her successor is appointed, not to exceed 60 days after the expiration of his or her term; require that the board director's position be vacated after the 60 day period; provide that the requirements of the Act apply to current directors on waste management district boards; RETROACTIVE.
Sponsored by: Rep. Kevin D. Bratcher
Received In Senate on 03/13/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
A JOINT RESOLUTION directing the Energy and Environment Cabinet to provide guidance and consultation on best management practices for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) to entities that discharge directly or indirectly into Kentucky's waterways. [SJR-149]
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[Water ]
[Public Health ]
Directs the Energy and Environment Cabinet to provide guidance and consult on the best management practice for perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) with entities that discharge into the waters of the Commonwealth.
Sponsored by: Sen. Brandon D. Smith
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 105) on 04/05/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to construction or demolition waste disposal. [HB-478]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Construction ]
[Environmental ]
Amends KRS 224.40-120 to allow an off-site construction or demolition waste disposal permittee to request an increase in the size of the permitted area to no more than two acres total if the applicant is compliant and meets permit requirements for the current and newly permitted areas, including posting an additional bond for the newly permitted area.
Sponsored by: Rep. Danny R. Bentley
Became Law Without Governor's Signature (acts Ch. 113) on 04/06/2024
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Hawaii 2024 Regular Session
Relating To Waste Management. [HB-2530]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
Requires all publicly or privately owned or operated transfer stations in the State to be open to the public for at least two days a week.
Sponsored by: Rep. Greggor Ilagan
Referred To Wal/eep, Cpc, Referral Sheet 3 on 01/26/2024
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Virginia 2024 Regular Session
Virginia Waste Management Board; open burning of solid wastes, transportation of vegetative waste. [SB-342]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Environmental ]
[Transportation and Motor Vehicles ]
Virginia Waste Management Board; transportation and open burning of vegetative waste. Requires the Virginia Waste Management Board to amend regulations to allow for vegetative waste to be transported to another location for open burning if it is impractical or unsafe to destroy such waste on the premises of private property. Virginia Waste Management Board; transportation and open burning of vegetative waste. Requires the Virginia Waste Management Board to amend regulations to allow for vegetative waste to be transported to another location for
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Sponsored by: Sen. Richard H. Stuart
Governor: Acts Of Assembly Chapter Text (chap0235) on 03/28/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to solid waste management service companies. [HB-135]
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Creates a new section of KRS Chapter 109 to define “confidential business information” and to provide that no county or waste management district shall compel the production or submission of confidential business information from a solid waste management service company.
Sponsored by: Rep. Jared A. Bauman
Signed By Governor (acts Ch. 145) on 04/09/2024
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Kentucky 2024 Regular Session
AN ACT relating to metal recyclers. [HB-91]
[Environmental ]
[Waste Management / Recycling ]
[Air Quality ]
[Manufacturing ]
[Public Safety ]
Create new sections of Subchapter 30 of KRS Chapter 224 to require the Energy and Environment Cabinet to promulgate administrative regulations to implement a comprehensive program to control explosions and combustion events at metal recycling facilities; require administrative regulations to be promulgated within 120 days after the effective date of the Act; include standards and requirements for controlling hazardous emissions, flying objects, smoke and dust, and the need for pre-shredders; define "pre-shredder" and "metal recycling facility";
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Sponsored by: Rep. George A. Brown
Introduced In House on 01/03/2024
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North Carolina 2023-2024 Session
PFAS Pollution and Polluter Liability [HB-864]
[Environmental ]
[Water ]
[Public Health ]
[Science ]
[Law Enforcement ]
[Public Safety ]
PFAS Pollution and Polluter Liability
Sponsored by: Rep. Becky Carney
Reptd Fav Com Substitute on 06/11/2024