environmental compliance Articles
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Environmental Compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley
Untitled Document Outline Intro and pre-Sarbanes-Oxley requirements Application of Sarbanes-Oxley to Environmental Disclosure The EMS as a tool for Sarbanes-Oxley compliance Seven Elements of an Effective Compliance Program The role of a technology solution in satisfying Sarbanes-Oxley ...
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Laying the foundations for sustainability with environmental compliance
A revival of environmenal awareness, as seen in consumers’ hunger for green products and public promotion of corporate sustainabiliry iniciatives, has reenergized spending on environmental health and safety ...
By IHS Markit
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ChemManager Article on Degussa using TechniData EPM
ChemManager Article on Degussa using TechniData EPM. Degussa Ensures Environmental ...
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Establishing an Environmental Compliance Management Program
Environmental Compliance Management Programs are a tool that can minimize the regulatory burden. This article discusses the four levels of an effective program. Download ...
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NextEra Environmental Compliance - Case Study
Learn how NextEra (formerly FPL) uses mobility to manage their Environmental Compliance from the field. Ian Cohen from NextEra discusses their use of regAction and how it has helped them maintain compliance. NextEra is currently utilizing programs from regAction to track and manage their Audits, Incidents and Compliance related initiatives. There is also a mobile component that allows them ...
By regAction
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Environmental Compliance Management Programs for Small Industrial Facilities
Many small industrial facilities cannot justify the expense of an on-site environmental professional to stay abreast of regulatory developments and ongoing environmental compliance activities. This paper addresses the methodology for the development and implementation of an environmental compliance management program for facilities with no dedicated environmental ...
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Six Keys to Effective Environmental Compliance
Environmental regulation is not new. Nor is the recent emphasis on streamlining the compliance process through regulatory reform, and other methods in the news. But the most reliable and useful “streamlining” you can do for your organization is based on the following six common sense, fundamental principles that in my experience are the Six Keys to the kingdom: 1. Plan ahead When you ...
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Asug Environmental Health & Compliance sig newsletter
Welcome to the Environmental Health & Compliance (EH&S) SIG newsletter! The EH&S SIG is focusedon SAP users responsible for environmental, health, compliance and safety issues within theirorganizations. These issues include, but aren't limited to: product safety, dangerous goods, wastemanagement and the various xApps the compliment the EH&S module. For more information, ...
By Verisk 3E
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Working Effectively with your Folks at the Plants
This article gives you some practical ideas on how to interact with your colleagues at the plants. Let's start by taking a hard look at the plant manager. The degree to which your plant maintains its environmental compliance status depends largely on the attitude of the plant manager. To view the full article please click here (PDF - 102 KB) ...
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`Environmental Compliance and Sarbanes-Oxley,` presented at the 2005 NCASI West Coast regional meeting
Outline Intro and pre-Sarbanes-Oxley requirements Application of Sarbanes-Oxley toEnvironmental Disclosure The EMS as a tool for Sarbanes-Oxleycompliance Seven Elements of an EffectiveCompliance Program The role of a technology solution insatisfying Sarbanes-Oxley Introduction Sarbanes-Oxley (Sarbox) is intended to restore investorconfidence by increasing the accuracy and ...
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Developing a Culture of Industrial Environmental Compliance
' Efforts to reduce industrial pollution in developing countries have focused on developing environmental institutions and legal frameworks, largely by establishing command and control regulations and market based incentives. Overall, however, formal regulation by itself has not proven very effective in reducing industrial pollution in these countries. While there is no substitute for an ...
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Extracting objective criteria from subjective judgments – affordability, competitiveness and sustainability of environmental regulation
Rationales, methods and issues associated with evaluating the affordability and competitiveness effects of potential environmental compliance costs are reviewed. Factors that impede arriving at definitive, unequivocal conclusions regarding the affordability of compliance costs or whether irreversibly adverse competitiveness consequences result from environmental regulations are enumerated. ...
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Wastewater Environmental Compliance Made Easy
Environmental Wastewater Treatment Success Environmental Compliance Made Easy Compliance AND Profits Zero Discharge Many times zero discharge of waste water is not only necessary to meet ever more stringent environmental requirements but can increase your bottom line by allowing the reuse of waste water to a great degree. Integrated's line of Floccin™ flocculating agents has been ...
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REACH exposed: stressing environmental compliance
Originally published in SMT May, 2008 In June 2007, I contributed an article to SMT that focused on the emergence of environmentally conscious technologies (ECTs), to address the ever present requirements for greener products and the greening of manufacturing supply chains. The key factors identified when evaluating the use of ECT’s were toxicity, energy, and waste. Toxicity requirements have ...
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REACH Exposed: Stressing environmental compliance
In June 2007, I contributed an article to SMT that focused on the emergence of environmentally conscious technologies (ECTs), to address the ever present requirements for greener products and the greening of manufacturing supply chains. The key factors identified when evaluating the use of ECT’s were toxicity, energy, and waste. Toxicity requirements have been driven by global product ...
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Compliance Audit Program
Multi-Site, Multi-Jurisdiction Environmental Compliance Audit Program 1. BUSINESS CHALLENGE In 1993, following an enforcement action by a provincial environment ministry, a major media print and media organization retained ÉEM to assist in the design and development of a corporate environmental strategy, which included policy, procedures, training and a compliance audit program, covering 20 ...
By EEM Inc.
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Environmental compliance enforcement from the government accountability office
This article presents the testimony before the Committee on the Environment and Public Works in the U.S. Senate about the EPA's effort to improve and make more consistent it's compliance and enforcement activities. Why GAO Did This Study The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) enforces the nation’s environmental laws and regulations through its Office of Enforcement and Compliance ...
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Value Points of Using the Floccin
These points are used as a tool to help you identify your facilities existing conditions in regards to operational costs and environmental compliance. Below is a newsletter that will help answer the following questions. The example mentioned in the newsletter was of an actual food processing plant that we helped to optimize their system and they are still a valued customer to this day. When you ...
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The Difficulties With Attaining Compliance With Environmental Regulations
If you are an environmental compliance manager today with college age children you are probably encouraging them to become dentists or orthodontists, and not to follow in your footsteps as an environmental compliance manager. Arguably one of the toughest positions today is being responsible for managing environmental compliance at an industrial facility. The primary element to managing the ...
By All4 Inc.
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Setting Up the ecoAsset Portfolio: An Ounce of Prevention Can Save Tons of Cure.
Addressing a few key implementation issues prior to applying risk management to environmental compliance is critical for program success. Often these issues are as simple as making minor adjustment to computational models and portfolio structures to ensure an accurate overlay on existing risk management programs. The challenge is to address these issues not only for today’s compliance programs ...
By IHS Markit
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