hazardous waste operation News
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Hazardous waste operations and emergency response training comes to Cary
Personnel who are expected to stop, contain, and clean up releases of hazardous materials are required to have 24 hours of initial training. Personnel who are involved in clean-ups at waste sites, including Superfund sites, RCRA corrective action sites, or voluntary clean-ups involving hazardous substances must have 40 hours of initial instruction.Environmental Resource Center, the leading ...
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Hazardous waste operations and emergency response training comes to Cary
Personnel who are expected to stop, contain, and clean up releases of hazardous materials are required to have 24 hours of initial training. Personnel who are involved in clean-ups at waste sites, including Superfund sites, RCRA corrective action sites, or voluntary clean-ups involving hazardous substances must have 40 hours of initial instruction.Environmental Resource Center, the leading ...
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Environment agency brings charges against waste firm
Dudley-based waste firm Envirosol has received fines of more than £45,000 for dangerously storing hazardous waste. The charges were brought by the Environment Agency under the Pollution Prevention and Control Regulations 2000. Envirosol pleaded guilty to the charges at Dudley Magistrates Court. During a routine site inspection by EA officers, they found a number of significant breaches by the ...
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U.S. EPA to hold information sessions for free environmental job training program in Rialto, Calif.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is offering job readiness training to local residents for environmental jobs that will aid in the cleanup of the Rockets, Fireworks and Flares Superfund site in Rialto, California. As part of the free job training program, participants will be trained in pre-employment skills, hazardous waste operations and emergency response and CPR/First Aid. The agency ...
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The HAZWOPER Training
Certain industries are more at risk for being exposed to harmful substances than others. Employees who are regularly exposed or have the potential to be exposed to hazardous substances and wastes will benefit greatly from completing the Hazardous Waste Operations and Emergency Response Standard or HAZWOPER training. Particularly, this includes those who are engaged in operations involving ...
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EPA Requires Hudson, NH Manufacturing Company to Pay a Fine and Make Hazardous Waste Operations Safer for Community
A manufacturer of printing equipment in Hudson, NH has agreed to pay a penalty of $116,000 to resolve claims by the US Environmental Protection Agency that it violated hazardous waste laws. In an agreement signed recently with EPA’s New England office, Presstek, Inc. (Presstek) agreed to pay the penalty and to comply with the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA). Last September, ...
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Behlen Manufacturing Company to Pay $59,996 Civil Penalty for Hazardous Waste Violations in Columbus, Neb.
Behlen Manufacturing Company, an agricultural and industrial product manufacturer, has agreed to pay a $59,996 administrative civil penalty to settle a series of Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA) violations in Columbus, Neb. In addition to paying the civil penalty, the company will spend a minimum of $75,578 to install pollution reducing equipment as part of a supplemental ...
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Hygieneering, Inc. Signs Contract With Large US Food Manufacturer for Safety & Health Consulting Services
Hygieneering, Inc. signed a contract to assist a large US food manufacturer with safety and health consulting services that include (PSM) Process Safety Management and HAZWOPER- Hazardous Waste Operations & Emergency Response training services. Hygieneering provides safety consulting, environmental consulting, testing and training, asbestos project management, emergency response services and ...
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EPA Joins Philly Nonprofit in Recognizing Graduates of Environmental Jobs Training Program
EPA Regional Administrator Shawn M. Garvin today recognized the Energy Coordinating Agency (ECA) and graduates of ECA’s jobs training program for successfully completing training for possible careers in environmental cleanup work. The jobs training was made possible through a nearly $200,000 EPA Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant to ECA. ECA graduated its inaugural ...
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Workers in Alaska and Washington to receive training for environmental safety and cleanup jobs
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $400,000 in federal job training grants to the City of Tacoma and Zender Environmental, Alaska through the EPA Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training program. EPA’s Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training program provides environmental and health and safety training and helps graduates develop a broader set of ...
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Brand FX body of Pocahontas, Iowa, to replace use of solvent and pay $11,021 penalty for hazardous waste violations
SNF, Inc., doing business as the Brand FX Body Company, of Pocahontas, Iowa, has agreed to pay a $11,021 civil penalty to the United States, and spend an additional $61,715 on a supplemental environmental project, to settle a series of violations of federal hazardous waste regulations. According to an administrative consent agreement filed by EPA Region 7 in Kansas City, Kan., Brand FX’s ...
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EPA seeks public comment on draft permits for romulus hazardous waste underground injection wells
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announced the start of a public comment period on draft permits for two underground hazardous waste injection wells that Environmental Geo-Technologies seeks to reopen at 28470 Citrin Drive in Romulus, Michigan. The company has also applied to the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality for an air permit and a license to operate this facility. ...
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Kansas City, Mo., Metropolitan Energy Center selected to receive $300,000 green jobs grant
EPA Region 7 Administrator Karl Brooks and Kansas City, Mo., Mayor Sly James today recognized the Metropolitan Energy Center (MEC) for being selected to receive a $300,000 Environmental Workforce Development and Job Training Grant from EPA. MEC, a workforce development organization, is one of 21 grantees to receive a portion of the $6.2 million awarded nationally by EPA for workforce development ...
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EPA Requires Nevada Gold Mining Company to Correct Reporting Violations
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency settled with Veris Gold USA, Inc. for failing to correctly report toxic chemical releases and waste management activities as required by the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act. The company agreed to a civil penalty of $182,000. The violations involved late and incorrect reporting for ten chemical compounds including arsenic, cobalt, ...
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EPA Honors 17 Environmental Job Training Program Graduates in Columbus, Miss.
During a ceremony today at the Genesis Dream Center in Columbus, Miss., representatives from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recognized 17 graduates from the Superfund Job Training Initiative (SuperJTI). EPA provided the two-week environmental job training program in conjunction with the ongoing cleanup at the Kerr McGee Chemical Superfund Site. The SuperJTI program was offered to ...
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EPA creates jobs in Texarkana, Texas - training will provide skilled environmental professionals
The City of Texarkana is receiving $300,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). The project will provide environmental job training and workforce development to poverty stricken areas in Northeast Texas. “The Brownfields Job Training Program provides a tremendous opportunity for people to learn the skills needed to secure fulltime employment in the environmental ...
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City of Tacoma awarded $300,000 in EPA Brownfields job training grant funds to train workers for a better, “greener” future
The City of Tacoma will receive $300,000 in EPA Brownfields grant funding to provide job training to assess, manage and clean up solid and hazardous waste sites. Celebrating their fifth EPA financed job training program, the City of Tacoma and its partners boast a 75% placement rate for its graduates at an average wage of $13.74. Brownfields was originally focused on training workers to ...
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Oregon Companies Settle with EPA for Illegal Disposal of Millions of Pounds of Reactive Hazardous Waste
Oregon Metallurgical of Albany, Ore. and TDY Industries of Millersburg, Ore. have agreed to pay a combined total of $825,000 in civil penalties to resolve alleged violations related to improper storage, transportation, and disposal of anhydrous magnesium chloride, a reactive hazardous waste that can pose serious fire and explosion threats. In addition to the penalty, the companies must improve ...
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EPA to Provide Nearly $200,000 for Environmental Job Training in Puerto Rico
U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Regional Administrator Judith A. Enck announced that the EPA has selected a leading nonprofit organization, PathStone Corporation, to receive $192,300 to provide green job training in Puerto Rico. PathStone provides services to low-income families and economically distressed communities throughout Puerto Rico, as well as in New York, Pennsylvania, New Jersey, ...
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Hazmat Training Comes to Cary, NC
September 22, 2010 - When workers handle hazardous waste and/or hazardous materials, training is not just a good idea, it’s the law. According to the EPA, workers who handle hazardous waste must be trained annually. Environmental Resource Center’s DOT and RCRA Annual Update and Refresher course is the perfect way to meet both your annual review and DOT 49 CFR recurrent training ...
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