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EHS This Week: : Protecting Your Business From Severe Weather, Diesel Spill in St. Lawrence River and More!
On this week’s edition of EHS This Week we’ve got the week’s top stories in environment, health and safety news: Protecting Your Business From Severe Weather California Enforces New Workplace Safety and Health Hazard Rules Diesel Spill in St.Lawrence River Nova Scotia Department Introduces New Bill to Protect OffShore Oil & Gas Workers Listen to the full podcast ...
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Plastic Storage Tanks For Effluent and Dirty Water Processing
Companies across the company fall foul to foul water disposal. Recently, a number of farming businesses have been fined for not disposing of effluent and dirty water correctly and a solution to this problem is the incorporation of dedicated storage tanks, or holding tanks, which keep their contents safe until the correct disposal processes can be put into place. As reported by Farmers Weekly, ...
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EPA, ADEC continue diesel spill cleanup in creek after company fails to complete contamination removal
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and Alaska Department of Environmental Conservation are mobilized to remove 4,400 gallons of low-sulfur diesel from a creek that flows into the Tiekel River after an oil tanker truck slid off the Richardson Highway 48 miles northeast of Valdez, Alaska on Dec. 9 and spilled the fuel it was transporting. The fuel went into a creek that flows into the Tiekel ...
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Eastern oregon farm and trucking company face $34,000 fine for diesel spill
Under an agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Hartley Farms & Feedlot LLC and Valley Trucking LLC Inc. have agreed to pay a $34,000 penalty for spilling diesel fuel at the Hartley Farms property near Nyssa, Oregon in violation of the federal Clean Water Act. On February 23, 2010, Hartley Farms and Valley Trucking spilled approximately 2,500 gallons of diesel from a ...
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Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad pays $272,900 for diesel spill in Cow Creek derailment (OR)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, the State of Oregon and the U.S. Department of Justice have settled alleged violations of the Clean Water Act by Central Oregon and Pacific Railroad with a civil penalty of $272,900. The violations are associated with a train derailment that resulted in a 4,200 gallon diesel fuel spill to Cow Creek and its adjoining shoreline. The fuel spill occurred in ...
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Officials: “Emergency Phase” of Puget Sound Energy Diesel Spill Near Crystal Mountain is Over…Long-Term Cleanup Continues
(Seattle, Wash.) -- Officials from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), U.S. Forest Service (USFS), Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) and Puget Sound Energy (PSE) today announced the end of the emergency phase of cleanup operations for the 18,000 gallon diesel spill discovered in early November at the PSE back-up electric generator located near the Crystal Mountain Ski Area. ...
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Magellan Pipeline Company to pay US$46,200 penalty for Iowa oil spill and facility response plan issue at Valley Center, Kan
Magellan Pipeline Company, L.P., has agreed to pay a US$46,200 civil penalty to the United States to resolve federal Clean Water Act violations related to a March oil spill at its pipeline terminal in Milford, Iowa, and an unrelated issue involving a May 2009 emergency response drill at its bulk oil storage facility near Wichita, Kan. Magellan Pipeline Company, of Tulsa, Okla., has certified ...
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EPA Releases Revised Bristol Bay Assessment/Agency asks for Additional Peer Review and Public Commen
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has released a revised version of the Bristol Bay Assessment for peer review follow-up and public comment. The assessment released today includes updates following an initial peer review and public comment period of the draft Bristol Bay Assessment released in May, 2012. EPA is arranging for the original independent, scientific peer reviewers to ...
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Boat Fire Spills Oil in Washington`s Gig Harbor
GIG HARBOR, Washington (ENS) - The Washington state Department of Ecology, the U.S. Coast Guard and others are responding to an oil spill at the Peninsula Yacht Basin Marina in Gig Harbor. A boat fire was reported to Ecology at 9:30 pm on Monday night. State and federal authorities immediately dispatched investigators and responders to find the 46 foot pleasure craft X-TA-SEA on fire. The ...
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Canadian bulk carrier spills oil into Maumee River
Droves of cleanup workers spent much of the weekend trying to contain and collect 3,300 gallons of diesel fuel that spilled into Ohio's Maumee River Friday night by a Canadian bulk carrier. Loaded with grain, the Algonorth was leaving the Midwest Marine Terminal Friday night when the vessel's stern smashed into the dock, rupturing two fuel tanks 10 feet above the water line, according to the ...
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Ivey takes innovation to a global client base
George “Bud ” Ivey is flying to Australia later in the day and he’s interrupted several times as he responds to questions about his environmental remediation technology business, Ivey International Inc. He puts off the interruptions, explaining to the callers that he’s doing an interview for a magazine article, until there’s a call he can’t postpone. A ...
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AMPOL December 2021 Newsletter Volume XX
As We Near the End of the Fourth Quarter AMPOL Continues to Grow! AMPOL Opens Up a New Facility in Gonzales, LA AMPOL Continues to expand despite the troubling effects of the pandemic, our newest facility is located in Gonzales, LA and will enable us to serve the response needs of many additional plants and facilities in the Gulf Coast area. Learn more about OLR Response ...
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State IDs Faulty Tanks; Now Tank Law is being scaled Back
After a 2014 chemical spill polluted drinking water for more than 300,000 people in West Virginia, lawmakers there quickly mandated tighter surveillance of the state's chemical storage tanks. It revealed dozens of tanks that shouldn't have been in service still posed a potential threat to drinking water for more than 134,000 people downstream. Many were corroded and a few were filled with ...
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Washington Oil Spill Affects Puyallup River
TACOMA, Washington (ENS) - The Washington State Department of Ecology and other agencies are responding to an oil spill that occurred at early Sunday morning on the Puyallup River Bridge overpass in Tacoma. The spill was reported to Ecology by the state Department of Transportation, DOT, after a vehicle accident on the southbound I-5 Puyallup River bridge overpass. A semi-truck crashed and ...
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Transportation Spill Emergencies Subject of Free New White Paper
A transportation accident or emergency release requiring environmental cleanup requires fast action to contain the spill generator's costs and limit potential liability. Shippers and transporters who are not adequately prepared to handle spill emergencies quickly and comply with all reporting requirements can end up with major expenses for cleanup and disposal services, liability issues and steep ...
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Oregon fuel companies fined for federal oil spill prevention and response violations
Tyree Oil Inc., Carson Oil Co., and Ferrell’s Fuel Network will pay fines and invest in facility upgrades for violating federal oil spill prevention and response rules at their Oregon facilities, according to separate settlements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. EPA inspections of each facility from 2007 and 2011 found multiple violations of federal spill prevention rules and ...
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EPA issues final air quality permits to Shell for Arctic oil and gas exploration
Today, EPA Region 10 issued final air quality permits to Shell for oil and gas exploration drilling in the Alaska Arctic. The permits will allow Shell to operate the Discoverer drillship and a support fleet of icebreakers, oil spill response vessels, and supply ships for up to 120 days each year in the Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea Outer Continental Shelf starting in 2012. Shell’s ...
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EPA Announces Summary of Enforcement Actions for Spring 2012
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) completed 38 enforcement actions from April 1 through June 30, 2012 to ensure individuals, businesses, and governments comply with the nation’s laws that protect public health and the environment. Before taking enforcement actions, the EPA offers compliance assistance to help regulated industries and individuals understand and comply with ...
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