laboratory hazardous waste News
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MEDIA ADVISORY: EPA Participates in North Birmingham Summer Youth Camps to provide Environmental Education
Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) personnel will participate in 4 summer youth camps throughout the North Birmingham area in attempt to reach campers in grades K-7 affected by the environmental issues in North Birmingham. WHO: EPA WHAT: Environmental Education Sessions WHEN: July 21-22, 2015 from 8:00am – 3:00pm WHERE: Inglenook, North Birmingham, Fountain Heights, ...
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Washington University in St. Louis to pay $15,000 civil penalty, clean high school labs to settle hazardous waste allegations (MO)
Washington University in St. Louis, Mo., will pay a $15,000 civil penalty and spend at least $45,000 on a supplemental project to help clean local high school laboratories of hazardous waste, as part of a settlement with EPA Region 7 over hazardous waste management issues at the university’s Danforth and School of Medicine campuses. According to an administrative consent agreement filed in ...
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Marine Dies from Exposure to Toxic Chemicals
LA Testing provides chemical and hazardous waste testing services to keep soldiers and industrial workers safe from toxic materials. Garden Grove, CA, September 27th, 2010 Earlier this month it was reported that a widow of a retired Marine was awarded compensation for her husband’s death. The retired soldier had worked at the Marine Corps Air Station in El Toro, California from 1968 ...
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ZweigWhite Acquires Environmental Business Journal Publications and Conference
ZweigWhite Information Services, LLC (ZweigWhite), has acquired Environmental Business Journal, a leading newsletter for environmental industry leaders, together with a series of environmental market reports and the annual Environmental Industry Summit event, from Environmental Business International, Inc. Published since 1988, Environmental Business Journal (EBJ) is recognized as the principal ...
By Zweig Group
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National lab reports violations of hazardous waste permit
An extensive review at one of the nation's premier federal laboratories has turned up violations in how the lab handled hundreds of containers of radioactive waste over the past decade. The latest revelations are on top of the permit violations Los Alamos National Laboratory first reported last year in the wake of a radiation release at the federal government's underground nuclear waste dump in ...
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Providence facility faces EPA penalty for hazardous waste violations
The owner and operator of a hazardous waste management facility in Providence, R.I. face an EPA penalty for violating federal and state hazardous waste laws. According to the recent complaint filed by EPA’s New England office, Northland Environmental and PSC Environmental Services (operator and owner of the facility, respectively) violated state and federal hazardous waste laws, as well as ...
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New EPA rule will improve environmental performance of academic labs
EPA has finalized the Academic Laboratory rule to help improve the environmental performance of teaching and research laboratories owned by eligible academic entities. This rule provides increased regulatory flexibility, while enhancing safe management of hazardous waste. Eligible academic entities include colleges and universities, and teaching hospitals and nonprofit research institutes that ...
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Hazardous Waste Settlement Leads to School Cleanups in 60 Schools in R.I. and Mass.
A commercial waste handler in Rhode Island has agreed to pay a fine of $58,278 and to spend $252,152 to clean hazardous chemicals out of approximately 60 schools in Rhode Island and Massachusetts in order to settle EPA claims that the company violated state and federal hazardous waste laws at a facility in Providence, R.I. Northland Environmental and its owner, PSC Environmental Services, will ...
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