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Building Owners & Property Managers Prepare for Strict New Lead Regulations

The environmental professionals at Clark Seif Clark (CSC) provide testing solutions for commercial and multi-housing residential properties in preparation of the EPA’s RRP lead testing requirements. According to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Childhood lead poisoning remains a major environmental health problem in the U.S." One of the most common sources of lead ...

Sep. 29, 2010

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

New Software Helps Environmental Professionals & Contractors Comply with the New RRP Lead Regulations

EnvironmentalReports’ software allows professionals to track and document lead projects in compliance with RRP regulations. Environmental professionals and building contractors across the United States are preparing for new regulations that become law later this month. According to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), “Beginning in April 2010, federal law will require that contractors ...

Apr. 12, 2010

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Leading Lead Laboratory Helps Building Owners with New EPA Lead Regulations

EMSL Analytical offers lead testing solutions to environmental professionals, the general public and property owners and managers to comply with the EPA’s RRP lead requirements. Cinnaminson, NJ, October 6th, 2010 The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that, “Childhood lead poisoning remains a major environmental health problem in the U.S." Lead based paints are one of ...

Oct. 7, 2010

By EMSL Analytical, Inc.

Rotork acquires Fairchild Industrial Products Company

Rotork is pleased to announce the acquisition of Fairchild Industrial Products Company, a manufacturer of high-precision pneumatic controls and power transmission products based in North Carolina, USA. The company was purchased from FIPC Acquisition, LLC a Delaware limited liability company controlled by Hampshire Equity Partners III, L.P. for a net consideration of $75.8m payable in cash and ...

Nov. 18, 2011

By Rotork plc

Cleaner cars mean more jobs at BMW

The German car maker BMW wants to recruit 2600 new employees in the next few months as part of efforts to make its fleet more environment-friendly. A spokesman for the company said it wanted to bring in experts to work on electric vehicles, hybrid powertrains and cleaner combustion engines to increase its production of cars with lower CO2 emissions, because of the increasing need to comply with ...

Dec. 17, 2010

By Transport and Environment (T&E)

Contractors Dealing with Lead & RRP Regulations Rely on Legends’ Insurance Programs

Many renovation projects that involve activities like sanding, cutting, and demolition can create hazardous lead dust and chips by disturbing lead-based paint in older properties. Exposure to lead dust and chips can be harmful to adults and is of particular concern to children. To protect against these potential hazards, on April 22, 2008, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) ...

Oct. 15, 2012

By Legends Environmental Insurance Services, LLC

Businesses urged to make WEEE effort

The Environment Agency (EA) has contacted more than 1,500 businesses across the north-east to remind them of their recycling responsibilities for electrical items. Anyone importing, rebranding or manufacturing electrical or electronic equipment must register with the EA under the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Regulations. Breaching the regulations could lead to prosecution. An EA ...

Mar. 25, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

HSE announces new post for London and 2012 Olympics

The Health and Safety Executive has announced that Stephen Williams is to take up the newly created post of Director of Field Operations (London) and the Olympics. Stephen will lead the health and safety regulation of the 2012 Olympics which includes the construction phase, while heading up HSE London Field Operations Division. He will continue in his current role as Chief Inspector of ...

Sep. 15, 2008

By Health and Safety Executive (UK)

U.S. announces settlement against Chicago owners and management companies

The U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with Wilmette Real Estate & Management Company, LLC; WR Property Management, LLC; 14 affiliated limited liability companies and Mr. Cameel Halim in Chicago and Evanston, Illinois. According to HUD and EPA, these owners and management companies in Chicago and ...

Apr. 12, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

EPA settles with Student Works Painting, Inc., for failure to comply with lead-based paint regulations at a home in Boise, ID

College Works Painting, a California-based painting company (d.b.a. Student Works Painting, Inc.), has agreed to settle alleged violations of federal lead-based paint regulations with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency. The settlement - which includes a $39,532 penalty - covers actions that occurred at a property in Boise, ID, in October, 2011. According to EPA case documents, Student ...

Nov. 13, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Defra reviews waste law

The Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs are currently reviewing a law which requires councils to provide waste disposal to institutions such as schools and hospitals free of charge which could potentially save local authorities substantial sums of money. A Defra spokeswoman said: “We are currently reviewing Schedule 2 of the Controlled Waste Regulations and we are commissioning a ...

Feb. 18, 2009

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Air & Waste Management Association presents fourth conference on vapor intrusion

Pittsburgh, PA (October 16,2008) The Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA) will present “Vapor Intrusion 2009,” January 27-30, 2009, in San Diego, CA. This conference will examine the latest developments and innovations in vapor intrusion.“Vapor intrusion is an indoor air quality issue that can have a significant impact on all building types,” said Adrianne Carolla, A&WMA ...

Oct. 20, 2008

By Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)

UPDATE France: Packaging labelling – court decision stops enforcement

On March 15, the French Administrative Court granted urgent petitions filed by the two applicants Der Gruene Punkt Duales System Deutschland GmbH and PRO Europe Sprl. The petitioners' applications have put the enforcement of the Decree on misleading labeling with regard to the separate collection of product waste from November 30, 2020 on hold. All enforcement action is suspended until the ...

Mar. 19, 2021

By NovaLoop GmbH

New director of environment and business at the EA

The Environment Agency (EA) has announced a new director of environment and business, who will take responsibility for ensuring that companies work to protect the environment. Ed Mitchell, who has previous experience in the public and private sectors, took up the position on 17 June. He replaces Tricia Henton, who held the position since March 2005 and will lead the EA regulation programmes on ...

Jun. 18, 2010

By MRW - Materials Recycling World - EMAP Publishing Limited Company

Lead Inspectors Quick to Utilize EnvironmentalReports’ Mobile Technology Solutions

EnvironmentalReports’ software allows lead inspectors, contractors and surveyors the ability to drastically increase operating efficiencies and streamline operations to increase profits. The software engineers have been busy at EnvironmentalReports (ER) as hundreds of environmental professionals involved with lead have been downloading ER’s software applications. Users from the ...

Aug. 30, 2010

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

Lead Dangers Still a Threat to Public Health

Just this month, it was announced that two athletic fields in Salem, Massachusetts have been closed due to elevated levels of lead and cadmium found by an environmental engineering firm that was hired to test the soil. The toxic metals were found in fill materials on the park’s ball fields. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) states that, “Childhood lead poisoning remains ...

May 23, 2011

By Cochrane & Associates, LLC

EPA Inspection Reveals Violations of Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule for Blue Springs, Mo., Renovation Company

EPA Region 7 conducted an inspection at Blue Springs Siding and Windows, LLC, in September 2014, which revealed violations of the Renovation, Repair, and Painting (RRP) Rule. As part of a settlement with EPA, the company has agreed to pay a $13,566 penalty to the United States. According to an administrative consent agreement and final order filed today by EPA Region 7 in Lenexa, Kan., the ...

May 11, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Department of commerce international trade administration seeks comments concerning regulatory cooperation between the U.S. and EU

In an important and little noticed May 3, 2011, Federal Register notice, the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA) requested public comments concerning regulatory cooperation between the U.S. and the European Union (EU) that would help eliminate or reduce unnecessary divergences in regulation and in standards used in regulation that impede U.S. exports. Of critical ...

May 4, 2011

By Acta Group

Department of Commerce International Trade Administration Seeks Comments Concerning Regulatory Cooperation Between the U.S. and EU

In an important and little noticed May 3, 2011, Federal Register notice, the U.S. Department of Commerce International Trade Administration (ITA) requested public comments concerning regulatory cooperation between the U.S. and the European Union (EU) that would help eliminate or reduce unnecessary divergences in regulation and in standards used in regulation that impede U.S. exports. Of critical ...

May 13, 2011

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

EPA Inspection Reveals Violations of Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule for Kansas City, Kan., Company

EPA Region 7 conducted a random recordkeeping inspection at Damage Control & Restoration, Inc., in Kansas City, Kan., which revealed violations of the Renovation, Repair and Painting (RRP) Rule. As part of a settlement with EPA filed recently in Lenexa, Kan., the company has agreed to pay a $12,194 penalty to the United States. The Renovation, Repair and Painting Rule seeks to reduce lead ...

Jun. 11, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency