March 2020 USEPA Addresses COVID-19 On Thursday 3/26/20 the USEPA announced a policy for Enforcement Discretion during the current pandemic. The complete notice is attached. The policy is temporary and applies to potential civil violations

Updated September 7, 2021 See below for important links regarding COVID-19. We will update these as regularly as possible. — CDC: https://www.cdc.gov/coronavirus/2019-ncov/index.html USEPA:  https://www.epa.gov/coronavirus USDOT:  https://www.transportation.gov/coronavirus USGOV:  https://www.coronavirus.gov/ FEMA:  https://www.fema.gov/disaster/coronavirus OSHA: https://www.osha.gov/coronavirus DHS: https://www.dhs.gov/coronavirus SOCMA:

March 2020 To Our Stakeholders,WTS, Inc. joins together with you as we press forward to safely support Essential Critical Infrastructure Workers during this COVID-19 Response. https://www.cisa.gov/publication/guidance-essential-critical-infrastructure-workforceAs a member of the critical infrastructure industry as defined

February 2020 As a reminder – a large number of the requirements of the Generator Improvement Rule from last year go into effect on USEPA’s New Aerosol Can Universal Waste Rule became effective federally today –

January 2020 It has been some time since WTS has sent out an e-Manifest update. The reason for that is that there is virtually no news to report! However, here is some information to consider:  

July 2019 Here’s the latest update on e-Manifest: FEES: USEPA has announced the new fee structure for e- manifest. These fees take effect on October 1, 2019 and are scheduled to remain the same through

July 2019 Here’s the latest update on e-Manifest: Adoption / usage of the fully electronic hazardous waste manifest continues to lag. USEPA convened a meeting last month to specifically address issues around ”Increasing Adoption of

April 2019 Here’s the latest update on e-Manifest: Widespread use of e-Manifest is still lagging. From October 1, 2018 through February 28, 2019, USEPA has processed 840,249 manifests and only 1,927 of them, <1%, were

January 2019 Here’s the latest update on e-Manifest: Note that due to the Federal Government Shutdown, USEPA has temporarily ceased (as of 12-29-18) all support functions for the RCRA info portal including e-Manifest.The RCRA info

November 2018 Here’s the latest update on e-Manifest:  Acceptance of the e-Manifest is still crawling along. USEPA reported on 10-31-18 that it has received 496,251 manifests from 6/30 to 10/30 and only 1,310 had been

October 2018 Here’s the latest update on e-Manifest implementation: The transition to a fully electronic system has shown little or no progress since our last update. On 09/26/18, USEPA reported that they have received 154,848

August 2018 Here’s some of the latest news regarding e-Manifest since the June 30th implementation: Though e-Manifest was ”successfully” launched on June 30th, the transition to a fully electronic system continues to lag. According to