VEOLIA ES TECHNICAL SOLUTIONS LLC

Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC is the U.S. hazardous-waste-management subsidiary of Veolia, a French environmental-services group with operations across water, waste, and energy services [source: https://www.veolianorthamerica.com/]. The U.S. operating row tracked under EPA Facility ID 110041964158 references a Colton, California operating site within Veolia ES Technical Solutions' broader 51-facility U.S. footprint, classified under NAICS 562112 (Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal) [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip].

Federal EPA ECHO records flag this entity with fifty-nine non-compliance quarterly markers across the 51-facility footprint in the most recent two-year window [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The most consequential federal enforcement event in the public record is a U.S. EPA settlement with the company's Azusa, California facility to reduce hazardous air pollution [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-settles-azusa-calif-facility-reduce]. The California Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) issued a Consent Order (Docket HWCA 2008-1688) covering hazardous-waste violations at the same Azusa facility [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/Veolia_ENF_CO_10020]. The California Air Resources Board has separately reached a settlement with Veolia Industrial Services Inc. on air-emissions matters [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/veolia-industrial-services-inc-settlement].

Veolia ES Technical Solutions operates a network of hazardous-waste-treatment-and-disposal facilities across the U.S., with the largest concentration in California, the Northeast, and the Gulf Coast. Each facility operates under a federal RCRA hazardous-waste-handler authorization, applicable Title V Clean Air Act permits, and state-level permits administered by agencies like California's Department of Toxic Substances Control (DTSC) and the California Air Resources Board (CARB) [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/Veolia_ENF_CO_10020] [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/veolia-industrial-services-inc-settlement]. The CIMC RCRA Profile Page for the Azusa, California facility documents the federal hazardous-waste-handler authorization scope at one of Veolia's larger California operations [source: https://ordspub.epa.gov/ords/cimc/f?p=CIMC:RCRA:::::P14_RCRA_HANDLER_ID:CAD].

The U.S. EPA settlement with the Veolia Azusa, California facility addressed Clean Air Act NESHAP-program shortfalls and required injunctive relief plus a civil penalty. The federal newsreleases archive preserves the canonical record of that settlement [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-settles-azusa-calif-facility-reduce]. The DTSC Consent Order Docket HWCA 2008-1688 concurrently addressed state-level RCRA-equivalent violations at the same Azusa site, with the consent order PDF available through the DTSC enforcement-archive portal [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/Veolia_ENF_CO_10020]. DTSC has also published a corresponding public-comment-period notice for the Azusa enforcement matter [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/event/veolia-es-technical-solutions-llc-azusa-comment-p].

A separate federal Clean Water Act enforcement matter at Veolia North America, LLC — Docket CWA-01-2023-0048 — is preserved in EPA's published-document portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-05/cwa-01-2023-0048-veolia-]. The Good Jobs First Violation Tracker aggregates parent and subsidiary enforcement penalties across federal and state agencies for Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC operations in California [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker/ca-veolia-es-t].

Veolia ES Technical Solutions' California enforcement detail centers on the Azusa, California facility, which has been the subject of both federal and state regulatory actions over multiple years. The U.S. EPA settlement with the Azusa facility resolved Clean Air Act NESHAP-program shortfalls — the canonical federal record of that settlement is preserved in the EPA newsreleases portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-settles-azusa-calif-facility-reduce]. In parallel, the California Department of Toxic Substances Control issued Consent Order Docket HWCA 2008-1688 against Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC at the same site, addressing state RCRA-equivalent violations [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/Veolia_ENF_CO_10020].

The DTSC matter included a public-comment period, with notice published on the DTSC events portal [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/event/veolia-es-technical-solutions-llc-azusa-comment-p]. The Veolia Industrial Services Inc. CARB settlement is documented separately on the California Air Resources Board's settlements-page portal and addresses air-emission compliance matters at separate Veolia operations [source: https://ww2.arb.ca.gov/veolia-industrial-services-inc-settlement].

At the federal Clean Water Act level, Docket CWA-01-2023-0048 — a 2023-vintage matter at Veolia North America, LLC — is preserved as a published document on the EPA system-files portal [source: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-05/cwa-01-2023-0048-veolia-]. EPA's enforcement-cases-by-statute portal lets researchers filter civil cases and settlements by Clean Air Act, Clean Water Act, RCRA, and other statutes; Veolia subsidiary records appear across multiple statute filters [source: https://cfpub.epa.gov/enforcement/cases/index.cfm?templatePage=12&ID=1] [source: https://www.epa.gov/enforcement/civil-and-cleanup-enforcement-cases-and-set].

Independent reporting has covered Veolia's broader U.S. operations beyond this facility row. The Coronado News documented Veolia's track record as the operator of the South Bay International Wastewater Treatment Plant, which serves the U.S.-Mexico border sewage transfer corridor [source: https://thecoronadonews.com/2025/05/veolia-a-look-at-the-track-record-of-a-]. Bluefield Research's analysis of EPA municipal consent decrees provides additional context on the broader Clean Water Act enforcement framework that governs Veolia and other municipal-water operators [source: https://www.bluefieldresearch.com/research/epa-municipal-consent-decrees/]. The Sacramento, California regional office is one of Veolia North America's larger U.S. operating bases [source: https://www.veolianorthamerica.com/contact-us/find-office/sacramento-ca].

The Veolia ES Technical Solutions LLC row tracks a Colton, California operating site (EPA Facility ID 110041964158) within the broader 51-facility U.S. hazardous-waste-management footprint. EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online (ECHO) facility-search portal is the canonical lookup for parent-mapped facility data; the Facility Registry Service at EPA links each operating site to its parent-corporation Federal Registry ID [source: https://echo.epa.gov/files/echodownloads/echo_exporter.zip]. The Azusa, California facility — the subject of the most documented Veolia ES Technical Solutions enforcement record — is one of the company's larger California sites, with its CIMC RCRA Profile Page providing the canonical federal hazardous-waste-handler authorization view [source: https://ordspub.epa.gov/ords/cimc/f?p=CIMC:RCRA:::::P14_RCRA_HANDLER_ID:CAD].

Veolia North America's broader U.S. operating presence includes regional offices in Sacramento (California), the Northeast, and the Gulf Coast, supporting the parent-corporate water, waste, and energy services lines [source: https://www.veolianorthamerica.com/contact-us/find-office/sacramento-ca]. Wikipedia's Veolia entry summarizes the parent-corporate global structure, ownership history, and major operating subsidiaries, providing context on how the U.S. hazardous-waste subsidiary fits into the broader group portfolio [source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veolia].

Hazardous-waste-treatment-and-disposal facilities are characterized by a distinct emission and effluent profile relative to other heavy-industry sectors. The dominant air-emission categories are volatile organic compounds (from solvent recovery and tank-storage operations), hazardous-air-pollutants regulated under federal NESHAP rules (including a wide range of organic and inorganic species depending on the waste stream profile), and process-vent emissions from incineration and thermal-treatment units [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-settles-azusa-calif-facility-reduce].

In the water-discharge dimension, hazardous-waste facilities operate under combined federal NPDES and state-level discharge permits that limit metals, organic compounds, and process-derived contaminants in effluent and stormwater [source: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-05/cwa-01-2023-0048-veolia-]. The DTSC Consent Order at Azusa specifically addressed RCRA-equivalent state hazardous-waste-handling violations, which typically include container-management, tank-system-integrity, and contingency-planning requirements [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/Veolia_ENF_CO_10020].

Veolia publishes a corporate-level Sustainability Report and integrated annual report through its global publications portal, summarizing emissions, water-use, and waste-diversion metrics across the global group [source: https://www.veolia.com/en/newsroom/publications]. Waste Today Magazine documented the release of Veolia's 2024 sustainability report and noted the headline emissions and water-use trajectories [source: https://www.wastetodaymagazine.com/news/veolia-releases-2024-sustainability]. Veolia's Industries division publishes its own corporate-responsibility hub for the energy-performance and industrial-services lines [source: https://www.industries.veolia.com/en/about-us/our-organization/corporate-re].

Within NAICS 562112 (Hazardous Waste Treatment and Disposal) Veolia ES Technical Solutions' direct U.S. peers include Clean Harbors Inc. (the largest pure-play U.S. hazardous-waste handler), Waste Management's hazardous-waste subsidiary network, Republic Services' specialty-waste division, and Stericycle's medical-waste operations. Each operates a similar permitted-treatment-and-disposal model and faces the same federal RCRA, Clean Air Act NESHAP, and Clean Water Act NPDES regulatory regimes plus state-level enforcement parallels through agencies like California's DTSC. Veolia's broader scope across water, waste, and energy services makes it more diversified than the pure-play peers; the consequence is that the U.S. enforcement footprint at any single subsidiary line is smaller in aggregate than at a comparable pure-play operator [source: https://violationtracker.goodjobsfirst.org/violation-tracker/ca-veolia-es-t].

Material forward-looking risks for Veolia ES Technical Solutions cluster on three vectors: continued compliance at the Azusa, California facility under the active EPA Clean Air Act settlement and the DTSC Consent Order Docket HWCA 2008-1688; potential additional state-level enforcement under California's tighter-than-federal hazardous-waste rules; and broader Clean Water Act exposure across the U.S. operating footprint following the 2023 Veolia North America CWA-01-2023-0048 matter [source: https://www.epa.gov/newsreleases/us-epa-settles-azusa-calif-facility-reduce] [source: https://dtsc.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/31/2018/01/Veolia_ENF_CO_10020] [source: https://www.epa.gov/system/files/documents/2023-05/cwa-01-2023-0048-veolia-]. The Veolia North America regional-office and contract-operations footprint also creates ongoing exposure to municipal-water consent-decree enforcement, an enforcement category covered in Bluefield Research's published analysis [source: https://www.bluefieldresearch.com/research/epa-municipal-consent-decrees/].