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EPA Inspections Reveal Clean Air Act Violations at Wilbur-Ellis Company Facilities in White Cloud, Troy and Silver Lake, Kan.
In a settlement agreement with EPA Region 7 filed today, Wilbur-Ellis Company has agreed to pay a $67,404 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its fertilizer facilities in White Cloud, Troy, and Silver Lake, Kan. The company is also required to spend an additional $113,121 on emergency response equipment to complete a Supplemental Environmental Project, benefitting ...
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Grant of $30,000 to help chemical facilities in Missouri comply with regulations
EPA has awarded the Missouri State Emergency Agency (SEMA) $30,000 to assist with outreach, education and implementation of the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management Program. All chemical facilities that handle, process or store a threshold quantity of 500 to 20,000 pounds of regulated chemicals are subject to EPA’s chemical accident prevention requirements. “This grant is ...
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Abilene Products Co., Inc., Agrees to $90,660 Settlement for Violations of Clean Air Act at Abilene, Kan., Fertilizer Facility
Abilene Products Co., Inc., has agreed to pay a $15,290 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act (CAA) at its fertilizer facility in Abilene, Kan. As part of its settlement agreement with EPA Region 7, the company will spend an additional $75,370 to complete a supplemental environmental project. The settlement stems from an inspection that revealed Abilene Products failed ...
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NRC chair: Work needed to finish Fukushima changes
The outgoing chair of the U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission said Tuesday the industry must finish making the safety changes required after a nuclear disaster in Japan, and it faces unresolved questions over how to store nuclear waste as existing plants close. Allison Macfarlane became the agency's leader in July 2012 after the stormy tenure of former chair Gregory Jaczko, whose management style ...
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EPA Inspection Leads to Safer Work Practices at Fort Dodge, Iowa, Water Treatment Plant
The city of Fort Dodge, Iowa, has agreed to implement safer work practices at its John T. Pray Water Treatment Plant in an effort to resolve alleged violations of the Chemical Accident Prevention regulations under the federal Clean Air Act. According to an administrative compliance order on consent filed by EPA Region 7 in Lenexa, Kan., the Agency conducted an inspection of chlorine handling at ...
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Physicians for social responsibility create maps of nuclear accident evacuation zones in the U.S.
Physicians for Social Responsibility Create Maps of Nuclear Accident Evacuation Zones in the U.S. Though we hear little about the Fukushima nuclear accident in our mainstream media or from our government, the situation just keeps getting worse. Many more people were affected and continue to be affected by radiation. Crops and fields have been ruined... the list goes on and on. PSR has prepared a ...
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Improvements to UK safety and environmental standards post-Buncefield
Ninety-seven percent of the safety and environmental improvements that the oil and fuel industry agreed to deliver post-Buncefield have been completed. As the joint Competent Authority (CA) for the Control of Major Accident Hazards Regulations (COMAH), the Health and Safety Executive, the Environment Agency and the Scottish Environment Protection Agency, have today published a report on the ...
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EC takes Italy to court for lack of hazardous accident emergency plans
The European Commission is bringing Italy before the European Court of Justice for failing to complete the process of drawing up emergency plans in case of major accidents for installations where hazardous substances are present. The Commission is also closing a case against Italy on the designation of special nature protection sites following significant progress achieved in 2007. Environment ...
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Fall River, Mass. Water Treatment Plant Upgrades Will Make Community Safer under EPA Settlement
The Fall River, Mass. Water Filtration Plant will make significant upgrades to eliminate the use of chlorine gas at the facility, under the terms of a settlement with EPA for alleged violations of Clean Air Act’s chemical accident prevention regulations. The settlement requires Fall River to pay a $5,000 penalty and to implement a project to reduce public health risk in the community by ...
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ISO to develop new global standard for improving road safety
ISO has just approved the creation of a new project committee to develop an international standard for road traffic safety management systems The secretariat of the project committee, ISO/PC 241, Road safety management, has been assigned to SIS Swedish Standards Institute, and its first meeting is expected to be held in Stockholm, 16-19 June 2008. ISO/PC 241 will bring together stakeholders ...
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Beef Products Inc. to Pay $450,000 Penalty for Clean Air Act Violations at its Waterloo, Iowa, Facility
Beef Products Inc. (BPI) has agreed to pay a $450,000 civil penalty to settle alleged violations of Clean Air Act regulations in Waterloo, Iowa, the Environmental Protection Agency announced today. As part of a consent decree lodged today in U.S. District Court in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, BPI has agreed to conduct third-party audits of its compliance with the Clean Air Act’s Risk Management ...
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Regulators order pipeline testing, other steps after spill
The company responsible for a pipeline that spilled thousands of gallons of oil along the California coast was ordered to take a series of steps before it can restart the line, federal regulators said Friday. The Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration required Plains All American Pipeline to remove the damaged section of pipe, test it and empty the remainder of the line. The ...
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COMAH: Expert urges under-prepared businesses to act now over fuel re-categorisation
New legislation for the control of major accident hazards involving dangerous substances (Seveso III) will come into force from the start of June 2015. But a proposed HSE amendment to this could have consequences which organisations need to be aware of and prepare for now, according to specialists in health and safety legislation Cedrec. The decision to implement changes has been driven by the ...
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ABS Consulting Vice President Steve Arendt Recommends a Risk Based Approach for Process Safety Management Excellence to Senate Committee
Houston, TX – During testimony before the U.S. Senate Committee on Environment & Public Works, Steve Arendt, Vice President, Organizational Performance and Assurance, ABS Consulting, recommended that any future process safety regulation should incorporate a risk based approach to process safety management (PSM). In the hearing entitled 'Lessons Learned from the Chemical Safety Board (CSB) ...
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Cheshire, Conn. company faces fine for environmental reporting violations
A Cheshire, Conn., company that makes metal parts for the aerospace industry faces a fine of up to $175,739 for charges by EPA that it violated federal clean air and right-to-know laws. According to an EPA complaint filed last week, Consolidated Industries violated the federal Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act by failing to file chemical reporting forms for chromium and nickel ...
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Cheshire, Connecticut company to pay fine for clean air and chemical reporting violations
A Cheshire, Conn., company that makes metal parts for the aerospace industry has agreed to pay a penalty of $105,240 to settle claims by EPA that the company violated federal Clean Air Act requirements meant to prevent chemical releases as well as federal community right-to-know laws. According to EPA, Consolidated Industries Inc. violated the federal Emergency Planning and Community ...
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OSHA New Accident Rule is Stirring the Pot
A new accident rule issued by the United States Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration, which will go into effect on Aug. 10, will change the way that manufacturers and businesses log their injuries and illnesses. OSHA directives state that all businesses inform their employees of their respective rights to file any injury or illness, without fear of ...
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BP products agrees to pay largest single-facility clean air act penalty for releases of Hazardous pollutants at Texas City refinery
$15 million penalty resolves federal civil claims stemming from two fires, leak, and reporting violations at refinery (HQ) The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that BP Products North America Inc. has agreed to pay a $15 million penalty to resolve federal Clean Air Act violations at its Texas City, Texas petroleum refinery. The penalty is ...
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Thousands of gallons of oil sopped up from California coast
More than 7,700 gallons of oil has been raked, skimmed and vacuumed from a spill that stretched across 9 miles of California coast, just a fraction of the sticky crude that escaped from a ruptured pipeline, officials said Thursday. Up to 105,000 gallons may have leaked from the pipeline Tuesday, and up to 21,000 gallons reached the sea just northwest of Santa Barbara, according to estimates from ...
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FRANCE France Notifies EC Of Ban On Microplastics And Cotton Buds With Plastic Stems: France has notified the EC that it will ban “rinse-off cosmetic products for exfoliation or cleaning that contain solid plastic particles” from January 1, 2018. The Decree on microplastics provides definitions for “[c]osmetic product,” “[r]inse-off cosmetic,” ...
By Acta Group
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