Emission regulations for diesel trucks in California are becoming an expensive burden on small businesses. By 2020, nearly every truck in California...
Entries Tagged Washington
Blogs
$15 Minimum Wage Breaks Records
The Seattle City Council unanimously approved a $15 minimum wage — the highest big-city minimum wage in the U.S. — for workers...
Online Exclusives
Rules and Regs: Washington Pumper Sentenced to Prison for Illegal Dumping
The owner of a Longview, Wash., septic pumping company has been sentenced to 27 months in prison for illegally dumping more than...
Blogs
Digging up bones
Has one of your onsite system installs ever encroached on an ancient American Indian burial grounds? Apparently the situation isn’t all that...
Blogs
They promote the onsite industry
Through its new website blog, Ace Acme Septic Services is showing that individual service companies can become strong advocates for the decentralized...
Editorial
Michigan Supreme Court Accepts Appeal of Public Sewer Requirement
The Michigan Supreme Court has accepted an appeal of a lawsuit claiming the state’s Department of Environmental Quality does not have the...
Editorial
Maryland Governor to Reintroduce Septic System Ban
Maryland Governor Martin O’Mally announced in August that he would reintroduce a ban on septic systems in new, large developments. He first...
Editorial
California Proposal Seeks Nitrate Testing
State onsite rules proposed in California would require agencies to test for nitrate entering the groundwater, but agency officials contend that they...
Editorial
Ontario Looks to New Regulatory Standards
Changes proposed by the Ontario Ministry of Municipal Affairs and Housing would bring onsite regulations in line with those recently established by...
Editorial
June Rules and Regs
Missouri
The attorney general recommended that Camden, Miller, Benton, and Morgan counties work together to create a regional sewer district whose boundaries surround...








