The Environmental Protection Agency has other ways of regulating hazardous waste.

The move challenges Federal authority to regulate hazardous waste.

It's the first serious international effort to regulate hazardous waste.

The South Carolina policy, a clear challenge to the Federal Government's authority to regulate hazardous waste, took effect in March.

The London Convention applied only to waste dumped from ships, and thus did nothing to regulate waste discharged as liquids from pipelines.

To stop what was described as price-gouging by organized crime, the state decided to regulate waste hauling and disposal as a public utility.

All levels of government - federal, state, and local - are involved in regulating solid waste in United States.

The move, a clear challenge to the Federal Government's authority to regulate hazardous waste, came in an executive order by Gov. Carroll Campbell.

Filters used in perchloroethylene based machines are also regulated hazardous waste in the United States.

This means that a special directive is needed to regulate waste from the mining industry and other extractive industries.