asbestos air sampling News
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EMSL Portland, Maine Laboratory Receives NVLAP Accreditation for TEM and PLM Asbestos Analysis
EMSL Analytical, Inc., one of the nation’s leading providers of advanced environmental laboratory services, is proud to announce that their Portland, Maine laboratory has been awarded accreditation from the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP). The NVLAP Asbestos Fiber Analysis accreditation guarantees that EMSL’s Maine laboratory is proficient in the analysis ...
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EMSL Expands Charlotte Asbestos and Mold Lab Testing Lab
EMSL is pleased to announce the recent move of their Charlotte laboratory. The new facility is a state of the art 4,500 square foot building which nearly doubles EMSL’s laboratory space. This move was necessitated by EMSL’s tremendous growth in the Charlotte area since opening in June 2008. Contributing to this tremendous growth has been the steady addition of quality personnel and ...
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EMSL Moves Asbestos and Mold Lab to Denver
EMSL - 30 Years of Quality Asbestos Lab Results PRLog (Press Release) - Aug 11, 2011 - EMSL is pleased to announce the move of their Colorado laboratory currently located in Centennial to a new location in Denver conveniently located off I-25. The new facility is a state of the art 3,800 s.f. building which nearly doubles EMSL’s laboratory space. This move was necessitated by ...
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Developer Admits Improper Removal of Asbestos, Violation of Clean Air Act
Anthony Crompton, the developer in charge of the Citadel Plaza Redevelopment project in Kansas City, pleaded guilty to violating the Clean Air Act on Wednesday. During the demolition process, he improperly removed asbestos-containing materials from numerous houses as he made way for the $85 million retail center. Crompton faces up to five years in prison without parole and a $250,000 fine. ...
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Idaho Transportation Department settles with EPA for exposing untrained workers and mishandling asbestos waste during shop renovation
The Idaho Transportation Department (ITD) has agreed to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for alleged violations of federal asbestos regulations. EPA has alleged that ITD hired inmates from the St. Anthony Idaho Work Camp (Idaho Department of Correction) to perform renovation work involving removal of asbestos-containing floor tile at an ITD Maintenance Shop in ...
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Asbestos Still Impacting Chicago and Illinois
The environmental and building science consultants from EC2 provide asbestos air and bulk sampling to ensure building occupants are not being exposed to deadly asbestos fibers. Illinois, and in particular the Chicago area, has traditionally been one of the manufacturing centers for the United States. The area became a major railhead, port and steel mill center. With industry, the population ...
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EPA monitors air quality in cleanup from Iowa floods
The US Environmental Protection Agency is conducting air sampling for asbestos and air monitoring for particulates as Iowa communities clean up from recent floods. EPA on-scene coordinators will assess air quality by using fixed monitoring equipment situated at key points throughout the flood-damaged area. The initial locations for sampling and monitoring activities include the cities of Cedar ...
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Donald Weekes Becomes AIHA Fellow
Donald Weekes of InAIR Environmental, Ltd. has been elected as an American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) Fellow. The award was presented at a ceremony recently in Philadelphia, PA at the annual American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AICHE). Fellows of AIHA are individuals who have been Full members in good standing for a minimum of 15 years. These individuals have been ...
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Big Tex Grain Site in San Antonio is Ready for Reuse
The Environmental Protection Agency today announced the Big Tex Grain site in San Antonio has been awarded a certificate by the EPA signifying that the site has been cleaned and ready for reuse. Potential uses for the site include residential, retail or commercial, but remain subject to local zoning ordinances and all other applicable laws. The Big Tex Grain site, owned by Big Tex San Antonio, ...
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Asbestos proficiency testing program support earns national accreditation
RTI International scientists recently earned recognition from the American Association for Laboratory Accreditation for their significant involvement in proficiency testing of laboratories using optical and electron microscopy to analyze for asbestos in building materials and air samples. The accreditation as a proficiency testing provider is based on internationally-accepted criteria for ...
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Air monitoring results for particulate matter, asbestos posted on EPA`s Joplin tornado web page; no health concerns so far
EPA Region 7 is sharing online the results of its ongoing air monitoring activities within the Joplin, Mo., tornado impact zone. So far, the data from Region 7’s air sampling for asbestos and particulate matter, which began May 28, has not indicated any health-related concerns. As additional data is collected and analyzed, EPA will post those results at www.epa.gov/joplin, which also ...
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Illinois Fire Raises Asbestos Concerns from Area Residents
The environmental and building science consultants from EC2 provide air and bulk asbestos sampling to ensure emergency responders, area residents and building occupants are not exposed to deadly asbestos fibers. Last month a raging fire in Algonquin, Illinois may have released dangerous asbestos fibers into the air. A 94 year old vacant factory that had been scheduled to be torn down in the ...
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Asbestos Find Halts Demolition Project in California Town
Last month, an article in the Oakdale Leader discussed how demolition activities at an old city water tank had to be halted and eventually changed due to the discovery of asbestos on the inside of the tank. According to the article, the water tank was built in 1912 and initial tests on the outside of the tank did not indicate the presence of asbestos. Once demolition began, workers found a ...
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Chicago`s Oak Street Beach contaminated with asbestos
The Illinois shoreline and Illinois Beach State Park have a long history of asbestos contamination, so as the 2008 beach season opens on Lake Michigan, a conservation group is advising beachgoers how to minimize inhalation of cancer-causing asbestos fibers. For at least 20 years, asbestos fibers were released daily and carried southward by Lake Michigan's currents from the Johns-Manville ...
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