chemical tracking News
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Regulatory compliance – reminders & tools
As the 2010 work year is under way, several compliance and regulatory reporting actions are required for practically every organization that uses chemicals in their operations. Whether your environmental responsibilities are local, regional, or global, you need to provide a variety of reports for chemical activities and usage in 2009. You also need to review or establish chemical tracking ...
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EPA releases 2007 TRI data using the Electronic Facility Data Release (e-FDR)
To better inform communities about releases of toxic chemicals from industrial facilities in their area, EPA this week announced the availability of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) facility-level data for 2007. This is the 5th annual Electronic Facility Data Release (e-FDR) and displays the TRI data exactly as received by EPA from the facilities - one form for each chemical at a facility. Many ...
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Track your chemicals online - chemtrac®3 launched
The REACH Centre is glad to announce the launch of chemtrac®3, the latest version of its comprehensive online chemicals management and regulatory reference tool. chemtrac®3 now offers following additional features Upload and manage your substance inventory Monitor the regulatory compliance status of your products Share substance lists with colleagues for easy project management ...
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OEHHA’s DARTIC Will Discuss Titanium Dioxide Nanoparticles at December Meeting
The Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee (DARTIC) of California’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) will meet on December 10, 2020, to discuss the prioritization of 22 chemicals or chemical groups, including titanium dioxide nanoparticles. DARTIC will provide OEHHA with advice on the prioritization of these chemicals for listing ...
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HPR-30 System Installed at TU Munich, Germany
Recently, the Hiden representatives in Germany, Sachin Menon & Wolfgang Kerschbaum from Hiden Analytical Europe GmbH, completed the install of a HPR-30 system at the Technical University of Munich (TUM), ...
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BLM proposed rule on drilling technique criticized as going too far, not far enough
The Bureau of Land Management will create high and unnecessary financial burdens and will undercut state regulations with its proposed rule to regulate hydraulic fracturing on federal and Indian lands, according to industry groups filing comments just ahead of the Aug. 23 comment deadline. Environmental activists took the opposite view, criticizing BLM's proposal as insufficient to protect human ...
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Study maps pollution’s pathway to the Arctic, sets path for future research
MIT researchers have built a model that will be further developed as part of an NSF-funded project to track how chemicals get to remote Arctic environments. Written by Vicki Ekstrom. You can read the original story in MIT News It's been more than a decade since global leaders met in Stockholm, Sweden, to sign a treaty with the goal of eliminating persistent organic pollutants making their way ...
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Safetec Names Kim Peterson Director of Environmental, Health and Safety
Safetec Compliance Systems, a leading provider of global chemical risk and compliance technology solutions, has named Kim Peterson as its Director of Environmental, Health and Safety (EHS). As an experienced, hands-on EHS professional, Ms. Peterson brings to Safetec greater insight into the challenges EHS Managers face in managing day-to-day tasks, including recordkeeping and reporting, handling ...
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Scientists track chemical changes in cells as they endure extreme conditions
One of nature’s most gripping feats of survival is now better understood. For the first time, scientists from the U.S. Department of Energy’s Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory observed the chemical changes in individual cells that enable them to survive conditions that should kill them. The team tracked the chemical changes in Desulfovibrio vulgaris, which is a single-cell bacterium that ...
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Air pollutants in the Arctic act as global indicators
Original story at MIT news. Despite global treaties and national regulations limiting toxic chemicals known as persistent organic pollutants (POPs), many of these chemicals still remain in the environment for long periods of time and accumulate in our land, water and air. These chemicals —which reach remote regions of the globe, such as the Arctic, through air currents — have ...
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Chemical Release Data Available
EPA Sets New Early Record for Releasing Data to Communities Nationally Washington, D.C. - EPA's Toxic Release Inventory (TRI) data is available this year earlier than ever before for local communities and national analysis. Facility-specific data was released last September and the full national data released today. 'EPA is getting quality data out to the public faster through electronic ...
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Carpet Cleaning Machines by Daimer® to Ship with Stain Cleaning Chemicals
U.S.A. – Daimer Industries, Inc.®, one of top Internet sources for industrial-rated carpet cleaning machines, will provide free with its popular XTreme Power® XPH-9300 extractors two, one-gallon jugs of earth-safe stain removing Eco Green® Carpet Care & Upholstery solution. Fully diluted, the super concentrated stain cleaning chemicals provide around 60 gallons of finished ...
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Interior issues new drilling rule on public land
Companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands will be required to disclose publicly the chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, the Obama administration said Thursday. The new "fracking" rule replaces a draft proposed last year that was withdrawn amid industry complaints that federal regulation could hinder an ongoing boom in natural gas production. The new draft rule ...
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Sphera Identified as a Chemicals Management Market Leader in Independent Research Report
Sphera has been named a market leader for chemicals management by Verdantix, an independent research and consulting firm, in its recently released “EHS Software Benchmark” report. Verdantix gave Sphera the highest marks for having “the most comprehensive functionality to facilitate chemicals compliance foundations.” For the benchmark report, Verdantix applied seven ...
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Wyden: FracFocus a `constructive` tool on drilling
A website partially funded by the oil and gas industry could be a "constructive" tool for federal regulators as they consider requiring public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing operations, Senate Energy Committee Chairman Ron Wyden said Thursday. Wyden, D-Ore., stopped short of endorsing the website, FracFocus.org, but said it could be helpful as lawmakers and federal agencies ...
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Wercs digs up the dirt on clean
You don't know what's in that household cleaner underneath the sink but one local company does. And the work it does for the nation's largest retailers tracking chemical ingredients in thousands of items could push safer products onto store shelves across America. Before any chemical product gets into Wal-Mart, Sears and Kmart, its manufacturers must come clean with what's inside to The Wercs, a ...
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Fracking: US tightens rules for chemical disclosure
The Obama administration said Friday it is requiring companies that drill for oil and natural gas on federal lands to disclose chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, the first major federal regulation of the controversial drilling technique that has sparked an ongoing boom in natural gas production but raised widespread concerns about possible groundwater contamination. A rule to take effect in ...
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Sevron Ltd partners with The BESA Group
Sevron Ltd and BESA Announce Partnership Streamlining Chemical Safety and Risk Management in Over 1000 Workplaces Leading technology company Sevron Ltd have announced their formal partnership with the Building Engineering Services Association (BESA) today. Sevron has now officially become the preferred provider of chemical safety and risk assessment software for BESA. Their flagship product ...
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Individual power stations’ emissions can be identified from a distance
Air pollutants and greenhouse gases (GHGs) from a coal-fired power station have been correctly identified 12 km away, researchers report in a new US study. Their monitoring method paves the way for a space-based satellite system which can check emissions reported by individual power stations against actual emissions. It is challenging to check the accuracy of emissions reported by nations under ...
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