hazardous chemical News
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OSHA releases three new Process Safety Management (PSM) publications
OSHA has released three guidance documents to help employers comply with the agency’s Process Safety Management (PSM) standard, (29 CFR 1910.119), which contains requirements for the management of hazards associated with processes using highly hazardous chemicals. “Unexpected releases of toxic, reactive, or flammable liquids and gases in processes involving highly hazardous ...
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General Biodiesel settles with EPA for hazardous chemical and emergency planning violations
General Biodiesel, in south Seattle, will pay a penalty for failing to report their hazardous chemicals in violation of federal emergency planning laws, according to a consent agreement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. General Biodiesel converts used cooking oils, fish oil, vegetable oil, and animal fats into biodiesel fuel and glycerol in a process that uses hazardous chemicals ...
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WECF symposium on substitution of hazardous chemicals
A symposium, addressing the issue of substitution of hazardous chemicals, was held in the Dutch capital the Hague in April. The meeting, organised by HEAL member Women in Europe for a Common Future (WECF) and the Dutch Ministry of the Environment in cooperation with employers union VNO/NCW and the chemical industry, sought to address how to facilitate the replacement of harmful chemicals from ...
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ePIC – a new IT-tool for exporters and importers of certain hazardous chemicals
The new ePIC tool will fully replace the European Commission tool, EDEXIM, which is currently used for operations under the Prior Informed Consent Regulation (PIC). ePIC enables exporters, importers, Member States, the European Commission, customs and ECHA to play their roles in managing the export and import of very hazardous chemicals. ECHA has today launched a new IT-tool called ePIC, which ...
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China Extends Hazardous Chemicals Registration Requirement to Importers
On July 11, 2012, China's State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) published Order Number 53, Measures for the Administration of Registration of Hazardous Chemicals, which replaces its 2002 predecessor. Order Number 53 extends the chemical registration requirements to importers and manufacturers/producers. An increase in the number of substances defined as "hazardous chemicals" in China is also ...
By Acta Group
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China Extends Hazardous Chemicals Registration Requirement to Importers
On July 11, 2012, China's State Administration of Work Safety (SAWS) published Order Number 53, Measures for the Administration of Registration of Hazardous Chemicals, which replaces its 2002 predecessor. Order Number 53 extends the chemical registration requirements to importers and manufacturers/producers. An increase in the number of substances defined as "hazardous chemicals" in China is also ...
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Tewksbury-based supermarket chain faces EPA penalty for environmental disclosure violations
DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc. was charged in a complaint filed this month by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency with violating the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know to Act by failing to follow federal reporting requirements at its Market Basket perishables distribution warehouse facility in Andover, Mass. The action stems from a Dec. 2008 inspection and a subsequent ...
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Evidence of hazardous chemicals and materials found in games consoles
The Greenpeace scientific report “Playing Dirty”, released this week, reveals that the world’s most popular game consoles, Nintendo Wii, Sony PlayStation 3 Elite (PS3) and Microsoft Xbox 360, tested positive for hazardous chemicals and materials such as polyvinyl chloride (PVC), phthalates, beryllium and bromine indicative of brominated flame retardants (BFRs). With some differences in the amount ...
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Tewksbury-based supermarket chain agrees to EPA penalty to settle environmental reporting violations
DeMoulas Super Markets, Inc. has agreed to pay $33,736 to settle claims by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that it failed to follow federal reporting requirements at its Market Basket perishables distribution warehouse in Andover, Mass. According to a complaint filed last month by EPA’s New England office, the company failed to submit a “material safety data sheet” for ...
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Bulletin on revised China regulations on emergency response
On the 11th October 2011, the State Administration for Work Safety (SAWS) in China released two draft new laws for public consultation concerning hazardous chemicals. These laws affect anyone exporting chemicals to China or manufacturing chemicals within China. Responses to the consultation close on 18th November with the new laws effective from 1st December 2011. The first of these laws - the ...
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Bulletin on revised China regulations on emergency response
On the 11th October 2011, the State Administration for Work Safety (SAWS) in China released two draft new laws for public consultation concerning hazardous chemicals. These laws affect anyone exporting chemicals to China or manufacturing chemicals within China. Responses to the consultation close on 18th November with the new laws effective from 1st December 2011. The first of these laws - the ...
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Five Washington companies comply with chemical emergency planning laws
Five companies in Washington have agreed to correct errors in reporting hazardous chemicals as required by federal laws designed to protect communities during chemical emergencies. The companies failed to report the storage of hazardous chemicals in violation of the Emergency Planning and Community-Right-to-Know Act, according to settlements with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The ...
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Four northwest companies agree to settle EPA chemical emergency planning and release reporting violations
Four northwest companies (2 in Washington, 1 in Oregon, 1 in Idaho) have agreed to follow federal requirements when it comes to reporting the storage, handling, and accidental release of hazardous chemicals. The companies have agreed to correct the violations and pay fines. Two of the firms (Stack & Dickinson) violated the hazardous chemical release reporting requirements of the Emergency ...
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Chemical Producer Faces Fine for Environmental Violations at Fairfield, Conn. Facility
A chemical producer faces an EPA fine of $93,900 for failing to report the use and storage of hazardous chemicals at its Fairfield, Conn. facility, in violation of the federal right-to-know law. According to a recent EPA complaint, the company, 5N Plus, Inc., violated the Emergency Planning and Community Right to Know Act (EPCRA) by failing to report hazardous chemical inventory information, ...
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Talisman Energy to pay $62,000 penalty for violations at 52 natural gas facilities in Pa.
Talisman Energy USA Inc. will pay a $62,457 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous chemical reporting requirements at 52 hydraulic fracturing facilities throughout Pennsylvania that include natural gas well sites and compressor stations, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. Talisman discovered the violations and self-disclosed them to the EPA. The Emergency ...
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Two Kentucky Train Wrecks Release Hazardous Chemicals
LOUISVILLE, Kentucky (ENS) - In the second fiery train crash in Kentucky in two days, a number of train cars, at least three carrying liquid propane gas, derailed and exploded south of Louisville this morning. The explosion closed Interstate 65 in both directions for 18 miles and forced evacuations of homes, businesses and a school, Kentucky officials said. The Bullitt County Emergency ...
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Maryland`s Spectron Superfund to Be Cleansed of Hazardous Chemicals
PHILADELPHIA, Pennsylvania (ENS) - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, announced Thursday it has reached a $21.8 million settlement with 95 parties to clean up the Spectron Inc. Superfund Site in Elkton, Maryland. Under this consent decree, reached in pre-litigation negotiations, the settling defendants have agreed to perform and fund an estimated $19.5 million cleanup at the site. ...
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First REACH hazardous chemicals list is a drop in the ocean
The first-ever list of 15 hazardous chemicals released this week by the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) is a welcome start, but it is a drop in the ocean when compared to the hundreds of well-known dangerous substances present in products used every day across Europe, said a coalition of environmental, health, consumer and women’s public interest groups. The groups welcome the publication of ...
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Contain Hazardous Chemicals with ASSMANN Secondary Containment Basins
Assmann rectangular secondary containment basins meet or exceed EPA requirements for containment of hazardous chemicals. They are molded of high density crosslink or FDA-compliant linear polyethylene. Tapered design permits nesting during shipping. Available in capacities from 40 to 3500 gallon. To determine secondary containment size needed, refer to factory drawings of primary storage tank size ...
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How to safely manage hazardous chemicals in your workplace
Bad luck or bad planning? It’s often easier to figure out what happened and why after a chemical incident has occurred. A couple of seemingly unrelated events combine to produce an explosion, a chemical spill and/or worse case an injury. You think – “If only the regular operator had not been sick that day” “If only the waste oil drum had been emptied on Monday ...
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