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St. Louis Community College Selected to Receive $199,994 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Region 7 today announced that St. Louis Community College (SLCC) has been selected to receive $199,994 to train unemployed and underemployed residents of St. Louis in hazardous waste cleanup. Residents who are unemployed, receive public assistance, or are low-income employed and living within the St. Louis metropolitan area, including the City of St. Louis ...
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Under Settlement, B and M and MBTA Will Pay for and Perform Cleanup of Iron Horse Park Superfund Site in Billerica, Mass.
EPA and the U.S. Dept. of Justice have reached a $4.2 Million settlement with Boston and Maine Corp. (B&M) and the Massachusetts Bay Transportation Authority (MBTA) for partial reimbursement of EPA’s past costs, and for full payment and performance of future cleanup work at the Iron Horse Park Superfund Site, Operable Unit 4, in Billerica, Mass. The settlement between the parties calls ...
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Environmental Information Association Tours EMSL’s State-Of-The-Art Corporate Laboratory
On Friday, March 8th, Brent Kynoch, Kimberly Gooding, and Dana Nicodemous from The Environmental Information Association visited EMSL Analytical, Inc. for a corporate lab tour. EIA is celebrating its 30th year anniversary conference with the 2013 National Conference & Exhibition held in Washington, DC from March 24th to 27th. Anyone involved in asbestos management, mold identification and ...
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EPA Selects CLIMB Community Development Corporation in Biloxi, Miss. for Job Training Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that CLIMB Community Development Corporation in Biloxi, Miss. is one of 19 communities in 17 states and territories selected for approximately $3.6 million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grants. Each grantee will receive up to $192,300 to operate environmental training programs to clean up Brownfields ...
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EPA Training Grants Create Job Opportunities Across the Country
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today the selection of 19 communities in 17 states and territories for approximately $3.6 million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grants. Each grantee will receive up to $192,300 to operate environmental training programs to clean up Brownfields sites in economically distressed communities. ...
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IEC Reports on a Case Study of a School District Tackling IAQ Issues
Paul Cochrane, the President of Cochrane & Associates, edits a case study that was just published in the July 2010 issue of the indoor air quality’s (IAQ) leading trade journal. The July 2010 issue of the Indoor Environment Connections (IEC) is currently being shipped to tens of thousands of professionals involved with indoor air quality issues. In this most recent issue a case study ...
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EPA Selects Florida State College at Jacksonville, Fla. for Job Training Grant
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that Florida State College at Jacksonville, Fla. is one of 19 communities in 17 states and territories selected for approximately $3.6 million in Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training (EWDJT) grants. Each grantee will receive up to $192,300 to operate environmental training programs to clean up Brownfields sites in ...
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IAQ Public Relations Firm Offers Discounts to EIA Members
Cochrane & Associates offers marketing and public relations services to environmental, mold and indoor air quality service and product providers. To help the industry increase its marketing and public relations, Cochrane & Associates is now offering, for a limited time, discounted services to new customers from the indoor air quality (IAQ) and environmental industries that belong to ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Approves California Shipyard’s Asbestos Controls
The laboratories at LA Testing provide asbestos testing solutions to protect people, the environment and property from the dangers of asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA, July 12th, 2010 A recent investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a redevelopment project at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in Bayview, California found that current practices are now adequately ...
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Exposure Concerns Following a Fire in a Multifamily Residential Building
Millions of people across the United States live in multifamily residential buildings. These include apartments, town houses, row houses, condominiums and other tenement properties. Unfortunately, fires in multifamily residential buildings happen all too frequently. In fact, the National Fire Data Center reports that multifamily residential building fires accounted for an estimated 109,700 ...
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Radiation Food Testing at EMSL Analytical, Inc.
Several months ago, it was reported that food products including beef, spinach, mushrooms, bamboo shoots, tea, milk, plums and fish were found to be contaminated with cesium and iodine as far as 360 kilometers from Dai-Ichi. Recently, it was also reported that about 963 pounds (437 kilograms) of beef from a farm in Minami-Soma city, 30 miles from the stricken Fukushima Dai-Ichi nuclear station ...
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U.S. Indoor Air Quality Market
Reportlinker.com announces that a new market research report is available in its catalogue: U.S. Indoor Air Quality Market http://www.reportlinker.com/p0958093/US-Indoor-Air-Quality-Market.html#utm_source=prnewswire&utm_medium=pr&utm_campaign=HVAC INTRODUCTION STUDY BACKGROUND This BCC Research market research report is an update of a report published in 2009. Since then, continuing ...
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