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Clark Seif Clark Selected for Award of Arizona’s Statewide Environmental Consulting Services for Asbestos and Lead Contract
Clark Seif Clark is pleased to announce that they have been selected for award of the State of Arizona’s Contract No. ADSPO12-033355. The contract covers statewide environmental consulting services for asbestos and lead. The State Procurement Office (SPO) made their decision in October. The dangers due to exposure to asbestos have been known for years. Asbestos still poses a serious ...
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Pipe Insulation in Homes May Expose People to Dangerous Asbestos Fibers
Cinnaminson, NJ, October 15, 2012 Many homes built up until the 1970s were constructed using insulating blankets and paper tape on their steam pipes, boilers and furnace ducts that contained asbestos. Due to the material’s strength, durability, and insulating fire resistant properties it was a popular choice and was installed in many homes and buildings.� Over time, these materials can ...
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Asbestos Siding on Homes May Expose People to Dangerous Asbestos Fibers
Many homes built between the 1930s and the 1970s were constructed using asbestos siding and shingles on the exterior of the property. Due to the material’s strength, durability and fire resistant properties it was a popular ingredient in both manmade shingles and siding products. Over time, these materials can become damaged and begin to degrade. When this occurs, cancer causing asbestos ...
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Former EPA fugitive sentenced to more than seven years in prison for asbestos training scam
The former owner of the country’s largest asbestos abatement training school was sentenced to prison today, after having fled the United States after her trial in November 2008. U.S. District Judge Nathaniel M. Gorton sentenced Albania Deleon, 41, formerly of Andover, Mass., to 87 months in prison to be followed by three years of supervised release. She was also ordered to pay more than ...
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Asbestos Removal Project in an Illinois School has Parents Concerned
Last month, WFIE Channel 14 reported on an asbestos removal project at a Carmi, Illinois high school. Usually when parents learn of asbestos being removed from their child’s school it brings relief to parents’ minds, but this time many parents voiced concerns. The reason for the parents’ concern was due to the fact that the asbestos removal project was beginning during the ...
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GSA and construction firms pay $100,000 penalty for mishandling asbestos at building renovation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) settled an enforcement action against the United States General Services Administration (GSA), and four private parties for alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at the John W. McCormack Post Office and Court House Building in Boston, Mass. The parties will collectively pay a penalty of $100,000. The action alleged that GSA, Goody Clancy and ...
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New York Air monitoring firm, supervisors found guilty of fraud and conspiracy (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that a federal jury in Utica, New York has found Certified Environmental Services, Inc. (CES), two of its managers, Nicole Copeland and Elisa Dunn and one of its employees, Sandy Allen, guilty of conspiring to aid and abet Clean Air Act violations, commit mail fraud, and defraud the United States. The ...
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Owner of Massachusetts` Largest Asbestos Training School Indicted
The owner of Environmental Compliance Training was charged in federal court on Aug. 22 with falsely reporting the school had trained dozens of individuals to conduct asbestos removal work. One employee of the company was also charged, in a case jointly investigated by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the United States Attorney for the District of Massachusetts. Albania DeLeon, of ...
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