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EPA Finalizes Cleanup Plan for Shenandoah Road Superfund Site in East Fishkill, New York
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has finalized its plan to clean up contaminated ground water at the Shenandoah Road Ground Water Contamination Superfund site in East Fishkill, New York. Past industrial activities contaminated the ground water with tetrachloroethene, commonly known as PCE, which is a volatile organic compound that can have serious health effects. The cleanup plan calls ...
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EMSL Analytical Launches MysteryOdor.com
This month, a new online resource for the people dealing with mystery and nuisance odors became available. EMSL Analytical, Inc., one the North America’s largest air quality testing laboratories, is pleased to announce the launch of MysteryOdor.com. Mystery odors in an indoor environment can cause everything from a nuisance to health concerns for building occupants. These same odors can ...
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EMSL Expands Charlotte Asbestos and Mold Lab Testing Lab
EMSL is pleased to announce the recent move of their Charlotte laboratory. The new facility is a state of the art 4,500 square foot building which nearly doubles EMSL’s laboratory space. This move was necessitated by EMSL’s tremendous growth in the Charlotte area since opening in June 2008. Contributing to this tremendous growth has been the steady addition of quality personnel and ...
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EMSL Moves Asbestos and Mold Lab to Denver
EMSL - 30 Years of Quality Asbestos Lab Results PRLog (Press Release) - Aug 11, 2011 - EMSL is pleased to announce the move of their Colorado laboratory currently located in Centennial to a new location in Denver conveniently located off I-25. The new facility is a state of the art 3,800 s.f. building which nearly doubles EMSL’s laboratory space. This move was necessitated by ...
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Quantitative Passive Air Samplers
While monitoring air quality is important in many situations, a variety of different quantitative passive samplers are available for such work. A proposed new ASTM International standard, WK45755, Guide for Selection of Quantitative Passive Samplers for Volatile Organic Compounds in Air, will help users decide which air sampler type will best suit their needs. WK45755 will cover issues such as ...
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EPA Takes Action on Two Potentially Harmful Chemicals
Last week, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced actions on two chemicals to reduce harm to people. Under the Toxic Substance Act the EPA, “has released action plans to address the potential health risks of methylene diphenyl diisocyanate (MDI), toluene diisocyanate (TDI), and related compounds. Americans may be exposed to these chemicals when they are used in certain ...
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New Videos Showing IAQ Pump Calibration Procedures Now Available Online
Last month, EMSL Analytical, Inc., released three new online videos describing how to perform primary calibration of various IAQ and industrial hygiene sampling pumps. The educational videos discussed primary calibration of high volume and low volume sampling pumps as well as popular portable pumps used to collect samples on Air-O-Cell® cassettes. For indoor air quality and industrial ...
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EPA sampling results announced for capital city Plume Site in Montgomery, AL
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced the sampling results for part of a remedial investigation of the Capital City Plume site in Montgomery, AL. The United States Geological Survey (USGS) and EPA collected samples of indoor air, outdoor soil gas, and an indoor water sample in August 2011 in downtown Montgomery, Alabama, at two locations considered to be potential ...
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EMLab P&K Helps North Dakota With Mold Testing and Bacteria Testing After Flooding
The Souris River overflowed its banks last month, breaking a 130-year-old high-water record and damaging thousands of homes. About 11,000 people were evacuated from Minot, ND neighborhoods nearest the river as the water crested nearly 13 feet above flood stage. The flood damaged an estimated 4,100 homes in Minot, ND, most of which were not insured against flooding. The damage was so severe that ...
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EMLab P&K Increases Mold Testing and Bacteria Testing Capacity To Help With Recovery After Mississippi River Flooding
Spring snow melt off and weeks of heavy rain have caused flooding in the Mississippi River and Ohio River Valleys that has become the worst flooding in the central United States in 70 years. Thousands of people have been evacuated from their homes and neighborhoods in Arkansas, Illinois, Indiana, Kentucky, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, and Tennessee among other parts of the Midwest and ...
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