hazardous materials inspection News
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U.S. EPA settlement prompts firm to develop hazardous waste training program for metal finishing industry
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency reached a settlement with Lynx Enterprises, a metal finishing firm in Tracy, Calif., for its failure to comply with federal hazardous waste management regulations. The company agreed to pay a total of $28,750 in civil penalty and spend an additional $108,000 to develop hazardous waste training materials. In October 2010, an EPA inspection discovered that ...
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EPA Awards Louisiana $137,000 to Reduce Asbestos Exposure in Schools
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality a grant to help reduce asbestos exposure in schools. The $137,000 grant will go toward compliance monitoring and assistance, public outreach, inspections, enforcement actions, and ensuring workers are properly trained and accredited. Federal regulations require public and private schools ...
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EPA Grant Helps Reduce Asbestos Exposure in Texas Schools
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Texas Department of State Health Services a grant to help reduce asbestos exposure in schools. The $124,741 grant will go toward compliance monitoring and assistance, public outreach, inspections, enforcement actions, and ensuring workers are properly trained and accredited. Federal regulations require public and private schools to ...
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EPA Grant Helps Reduce Asbestos Exposure in Oklahoma Schools
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded the Oklahoma Department of Labor a grant to help reduce asbestos exposure in schools. The $204,000 grant will go toward compliance monitoring and assistance, public outreach, inspections, enforcement actions, and ensuring workers are properly trained and accredited. Asbestos can be found in a variety of construction materials and ...
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EPA Region 7 orders cedar valley electroplating in Cedar Falls, Iowa, to take immediate action to address hazardous wastes
EPA Region 7 is ordering Cedar Valley Electroplating L.L.C., a metal electroplating business, to take a series of immediate actions to address multiple issues with leaking tanks and containers of hazardous waste at its facility in Cedar Falls, Iowa. Under a unilateral administrative order issued by EPA in Kansas City, Kan., Cedar Valley Electroplating – and R Squared Properties, L.L.C., ...
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EPA awards $150,000 to reduce asbestos exposure in Louisiana (LA)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $150,000 to Louisiana to help reduce asbestos exposure in schools and state buildings. The project will encompass compliance monitoring, compliance assistance and public outreach. The project is covered under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). The program provides protection through on-site surveillance where asbestos is ...
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Texas receives nearly $140,000 to protect citizens from asbestos (TX)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $138,678 to Texas to protect citizens from possible asbestos exposures. The project will continue to prevent unnecessary exposure to asbestos in the workplace and in buildings. The project is covered under the Asbestos Hazard Emergency Response Act (AHERA). The program provides protection through on-site surveillance where asbestos is found. ...
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Arizona Charter Schools Fined for Asbestos Violations
LA Testing provides asbestos testing solutions to protect students, faculty and school administrators from the dangers associated with asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA, June 7th, 2010 This spring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fined three charter school operators in Arizona. The schools were in the greater Phoenix and Tucson areas. The fines totaled in the thousands of ...
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