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Potentially Dangerous Pesticide Approved for Use in California
LA Testing provides environmental and air testing services to ensure indoor and outdoor surroundings are safe for people. Earlier this month California regulators approved the controversial pesticide, methyl iodide, for use on fruits and vegetables across the state. Methyl iodide is replacing methyl bromide, which is a potent neurotoxin and one of a number of chemicals that have been found to ...
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Asbestos Landfill a Concern for Area Residents
LA Testing provides environmental and air testing services to ensure asbestos found in California does not cause health concerns for area residents. Garden Grove, CA, January 31st, 2011 A recent article highlighted the fact that once asbestos has been removed from a building the health concerns caused by the asbestos do not just go away. A California family in Vacaville is concerned about ...
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Cleanup from California Floods Expose Asbestos Dangers
LA Testing provides environmental and air testing services to ensure remediation efforts across California do not cause additional indoor air quality (IAQ) problems. Last week historic rainfall and flooding caused havoc across much of California. Five days of storms pounded many communities and caused widespread damage to countless homes and businesses. The damage was so vast that Governor ...
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Environmental Protection Agency Approves California Shipyard’s Asbestos Controls
The laboratories at LA Testing provide asbestos testing solutions to protect people, the environment and property from the dangers of asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA, July 12th, 2010 A recent investigation by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) of a redevelopment project at the Hunters Point Naval Shipyard in Bayview, California found that current practices are now adequately ...
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California Apartment Owner and Contractor Face Asbestos Violations
Asbestos testing services offered by LA Testing protect people, the environment and property from asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA, July 26th, 2010 This month it was reported that two California men face heavy fines for asbestos violations at a Ventura apartment complex. The building, constructed in 1964, recently had water damage from broken pipes that required thirty-six of the units to ...
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Concerns Escalate Over Leaching of Selenium from the San Joaquin Valley
California’s LA Testing provides selenium testing solutions for agribusiness, municipalities and environmental agencies. Los Alamitos, CA, June 9th, 2010 Selenium is a naturally occurring mineral that was discovered in 1817. Since then its manufacture and use by man has increased dramatically. Selenium is a chemical element represented by the symbol Se. Selenium salts in trace amounts ...
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Arizona Charter Schools Fined for Asbestos Violations
LA Testing provides asbestos testing solutions to protect students, faculty and school administrators from the dangers associated with asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA, June 7th, 2010 This spring the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) fined three charter school operators in Arizona. The schools were in the greater Phoenix and Tucson areas. The fines totaled in the thousands of ...
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Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ) Fines Contractors over Asbestos Violations
The laboratories at LA Testing provide asbestos testing solutions to protect people, the environment and property from the dangers of asbestos exposure. Los Alamitos, CA. This month Arizona announced fines of $100,000 that three contractors have agreed to pay for violating asbestos rules. The fines resulted from construction work that took place in early 2006 at the Marine Corps Air Station ...
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California Mall Faces Asbestos Abatement
LA Testing provides asbestos testing services to ensure construction and remediation projects across California do not cause indoor air quality (IAQ) problems from asbestos. During the busy holiday shopping season in December, a broken sprinkler pipe burst causing flooding at the Garden Walk Mall in Chico, California. Not only did the flooding from the broken pipe happen at an unfortunate time ...
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Is Mold Killing Western Gulls in San Francisco
LA Testing offers environmental testing services for mold, bacteria and other possible contaminants that can damage the environment and people’s health. Pasadena, CA, March 30th, 2011 Earlier this month The Bay Citizen published a story about the alarming number of western gulls that are dying near San Francisco’s industrial Pier 94. The article, “Mold Mystery Surrounds SF ...
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Accutest acquires environmental assets of Southern Petroleum
Accutest Corp. (Dayton, NJ) announced that it has acquired the environmental testing division of Southern Petroleum Laboratories (SPL; Houston, TX). The newly acquired assets provide environmental testing services to petroleum, industrial, and engineering clients in the Gulf Coast and central U.S. regions. "We continue to implement our strategy of building Accutest into a leading national ...
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California’s Proposition 26 Could Impact Environmental Projects across the State
LA Testing provides environmental testing services to protect people and the environment from pollution and toxins. Tomorrow voters across California will decide the fate of Proposition 26. If passed, Proposition 26 will make two changes to California’s State Constitution. First it defines various state “fees” as “taxes” and secondly it requires people’s ...
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Pace Analytical Services, Inc., Purchases ERMI Environmental Laboratories of Allen, Texas
Pace Analytical, an industry-leading provider of environmental testing services, announced today that it has acquired ERMI Environmental Laboratories, a full-service environmental testing laboratory located in Allen, TX. ERMI will help accelerate Pace Analytical's efforts to expand its environmental laboratory network and broaden its testing capabilities in order to better serve more clients in ...
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Santa Clarita Faces Environmental Challenges with Whittaker-Bermite Property
In the California city of Santa Clarita there is a 996 acre piece of land that developers would like give a new lease on life to with new construction. The problem is the property has been found to be contaminated with various toxic substances. For decades the land was the site of various manufacturing plants that included everything from the manufacturing of dynamite and fireworks to ...
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California Business Owners File Suit against Commercial Property Owners
Earlier this month, it was reported in the Marin Independent Journal that former business owners of a video store have filed a lawsuit against their past landlords in Fairfax, California. The suit alleges that the property owners knew of improperly disposed of perchloroethylene at the shopping center by another tenant that operated a dry cleaning business, but did not inform the video store ...
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California Hospitals Battle with Infectious Diseases
In 2008, a Gavilan Hills resident helped to spearhead a landmark bill through the California Legislature. The bill, Nile’s Law, is named for her son who was 15 when he died of a hospital acquired infection (HAI). The law requires the state to collect and make public the number of HAIs acquired in California. In December, the first report from 383 general acute care facilities was released ...
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Ozone can be Harmful to People, Pets and Plants
The environmental consulting experts at EC2 provide indoor air quality (IAQ) testing services for ozone and other contaminants to minimize health risks. Tropospheric ozone, also known as low level ozone, is recognized by the World Health Organization (WHO) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as a pollutant. It can be generated in populated areas by sunlight reacting with ...
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Midwest Flooding May Result in Mold Problems for Area Residents
EMSL Analytical provides environmental and indoor air quality (IAQ) testing solutions for residential and commercial properties impacted by flood waters across the Midwest. Cinnaminson, NJ, March 1st, 2011 Much of the Midwest has been inundated with heavy rains and melting snow over the past few days. In Findlay, Ohio, waters crested after topping out at 5 ½ feet above flood levels ...
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Heavy Rains Have California Residents on the Lookout for Mold & Bacteria
EMSL Analytical provides environmental and indoor air quality (IAQ) testing solutions for residential and commercial properties impacted by heavy rains and flooding in California. Sunday brought gusting winds, heavy rains and flooding to parts of California. The first major storm of spring brought new concerns over mudslides and even knocked out power to more than 10,000 area customers. ...
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Fecal and Skin-Borne Bacteria Found on California’s BART Transit System
More than just the 330,000 commuters ride the Bay Area Rapid Transit (BART) system each day. Last month it was reported in The Bay Citizen in the article “BART Seat: Where Bacteria Blossom” that testing of fabric seats on BART has revealed a host of potentially harmful microbial contaminants. The publication commissioned analysis of what lay hidden in a random seat. According to ...
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