environmental compliance Articles
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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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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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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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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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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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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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Launch of online environmental compliance resource for universities and colleges
The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) have announced the launch of a new web-based compliance centre called CampusERC . This progressive site has been “designed as a multifaceted library of resources for college and university environmental officers to keep up with the latest news and information on environmental issues, study best practices in ...
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Back to Basics
A refresher on how to properly manage HazMat inventory How are you managing the hazardous materials (HazMat) used, stored, and produced in your facility? That is the question. Unless a facility manager has a multimillion-dollar budget and works in an organization with a cultural commitment to safety and risk management, they're probably managing ever-more-complex rules and requirements with ...
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Regulatory compliance case study
Service performed: Developed a Task Notification System (TNS) for 11 facilities in the U.S. Summary: As a proud partner of a leading manufacturing of glass, our experts have provided ongoing environmental support services since 2004, with particular focus on environmental compliance and ongoing management of recurring environmental tasks. In order to effectively manage environmental compliance ...
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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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Managing environmental compliance for Consol Energy, USA case study
Project Summary: Consol Energy Inc. (NYSE: CNX) is the largest producer of high-Btu bituminous coal in the United States. ERIMS is an integral aspect of how Consol monitor, manage, and report on a complex and dynamic array of environmental measurements across multiple facilities and states, as required by various regulatory agencies. This data is massive in scale and reporting requirements are ...
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An approach to calculating the return on investment (ROI) for software purchases
This article presents an approach to calculating the return on investment for software designed to address environmental compliance information. Return On Investment - Introduction Return on Investment (ROI) calculations are commonly used as a primary value point in evaluating the purchase of products and services. The ROI is usually calculated by the formula: ROI = (Return – Cost)/Cost ...
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Introducing the environmental profile of green supply chains to assess their environmental capability
Environmental assessment of supply chains is a key research field to provide organisations the opportunity of identifying improvements and measuring the effect of investments in greening products and processes. The focus on supply chain management is growing as a leverage to compete in global markets and handle the always more pressing environmental regulations. The paper describes a study to ...
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Fine-Tuning EH&S performance with technology
Despite challenging economic circumstances, environmental compliance is a business obligation that cannot be ignored. However, regulatory compliance is not the only aspect of environmental management that should be considered. Careful environmental management is a growing concern among consumers and the public image of a company is greatly influenced by how the company handles its environmental ...
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Our expert on EHS Today: ISO 14001 revisions – greater focus on environmental compliance
In November 2011, the International Standards Organization (ISO) started a 3-year procedure to revise the ISO 14001 environmental management system standard. The revision is intended to better align the standard with current and future environmental and business conditions and practices. The revision is due to be published in 2015 and will impact the standard in terms of both structure and ...
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Web Dashboards – An Efficient Way to Monitor Environmental Compliance
EQuIS™ Enterprise dashboards compile all relevant environmental information into a single, up-to-date display allowing data managers to see the big picture at a glance while having access to more in-depth information as needed. Maintaining environmental compliance requires an efficient way of managing data streams from various sources. EQuIS™ Enterprise dashboards compile all ...
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Meet eDAS 4.0 - the smarter way to monitor and manage your environmental performance
What is eDAS 4.0? eDAS 4.0 is an environmental data acquisition system that allows you to visualise your environmental performance data both on-site and remotely. At a time when it has never been more critical to comply to environmental regulations, eDAS 4.0 will reliably support you with your environmental compliance by collating, centralising, and presenting your monitoring data on an easy to ...
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Three Important Issues
With a reliable and custom summary of environmental regulations that addresses ONLY THOSE REGULATIONS THAT HAVE THE POTENTIAL TO IMPACT YOU AND YOUR BUSINESS, you can address issues upfront and aggressively, resulting in more time available to run your business effectively and without environmental compliance issues. Tracking Environmental Regulations Un often be a backburner chore for ...
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Pollution Prevention Solutions During Permitting, Inspection and Enforcement Activities
Executive Summary In 1995, the nation’s largest industrial users of toxic chemicals released 2.2 billion pounds of toxic chemicals into the environment (U.S. EPA, 1995 Toxic Release Inventory) and spent billions of dollars managing pollution control technology systems to prevent that number from being higher. If one were to add in the purchase price of the raw materials that eventually escaped ...
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50 Years After the First Earth Day, What Challenges Are Next for Environmental and Sustainability Professionals?
2020 is a milestone year for environmental and sustainability management. It's a benchmark year for many companies’ environmental and sustainability goals; it has brought unprecedented management challenges surrounding the COVID-19 pandemic; and it marks 50 years since the first Earth Day, which brought about the creation of the EPA and the environmental profession. So much has been ...
By NAEM
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