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Casella’s CEL-120 acoustic calibrator achieves Germany`s PTB approval
Casella CEL (www.casellameasurement.com; 01234 844100) - leading global specialist in industrial hygiene and occupational health monitoring equipment - has announced that its compact CEL-120 acoustic calibrator has recently achieved Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB) approval. The PTB is Germany’s National Institute for Natural and Engineering Sciences and is the ...
By Casella
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Local destabilization can cause complete loss of West Antarctica’s ice masses
The huge West Antarctic ice sheet would collapse completely if the comparatively small Amundsen Basin is destabilized, scientists of the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research find. A full discharge of ice into the ocean is calculated to yield about 3 meters of sea-level rise. Recent studies indicated that this area of the ice continent is already losing stability, making it the first ...
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EPA issues final report of air toxics study in St. Croix, US Virgin Islands--public meeting to be held on August 23
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today issued a report on a four-month study of air pollution from the HOVENSA oil refinery and other sources of air pollution near the facility in St. Croix, U.S. Virgin Islands. The purpose of the study was to determine whether air quality near the facility poses health concerns to the community and to guide the strategies for reducing local ...
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Global Economy Growing But May Leave Well-being Behind
In 2012, gross world product increased to just over $83 trillion, a 4.85 percent increase over 2011. On the surface, this metric supports the argument that the worst of the global recession is in the past; however, the economy continues a pattern of slowing growth rates since 2010 and 2011, when gross world product grew 6.35 and 5.67 percent, respectively. Moreover, closer inspection shows that ...
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Rapid Testing of Legionella in hot and cold water systems
In the draft technical guidance on the control of Legionella in hot and cold water systems -part 2 of HSG274, the ACOP L8 team has allowed a role for rapid testing in Legionella control and management. This is consistent with the position that the role of rapid testing techniques in Legionella management, is decided on the basis of a risk assessment and a management plan. The technical guidance ...
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Intelligent Rotork actuators improve wireless functionality at UK crude storage hub
Rotork IQ3 multi-turn actuators have been commissioned for two Navigator Terminals road fuel and crude storage tanks at its North Tees hub in Middlesbrough.The site, which is split into Inland and Marine terminals, supplies the North East of the UK and has connecting pipelines to a neighbouring Navigator Terminals storage facility, Seal Sands, on the north bank of the River Tees. It is connected ...
By Rotork plc
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PAS 2020 launch to certify the environmental performance of DM campaigns
The BSI and DMA have developed PAS 2020, a new certificate for direct marketers to reduce landfill and increase recycling, reports Envido.Produced by BSi British Standards, The PAS 2020 Direct Marketing Environmental Performance assessment provides the direct marketing industry with the means for certifying the environmental performance of a direct marketing campaign. It is designed to help ...
By Vital Energi
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Population growth steady in the face of a changing climate
The world's population surpassed 6.8 billion in early 2009, with no significant slowing in the pace of growth in recent years. Estimates by the United Nations Population Division indicate that humanity has been consistently gaining more than 79 million people-a population almost the size of Germany's-each year since 1999. Indicators including decreased assistance for family planning services, ...
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Oxygen Monitoring System for MRI Rooms
Delta, British Columbia, Canada – Critical Environment Technologies Canada Inc. (CETCI) is pleased to tell you about the DCC-MRI Oxygen Monitoring System for MRI room applications in hospitals and clinics. The DCC-MRI replaces our GEM-MRI, offering technological and functional improvements over its predecessor. Due to the strong magnetic field inside the MRI room, electronic equipment ...
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High level conference opens in Brussels on green economics indicators
Measuring progress, true wealth and the well-being of nations are the topics being discussed today and tomorrow at a high-level conference organised by the Commission in partnership with the European Parliament, the OECD, the Club of Rome and WWF. The aim of the conference is to move towards a better appreciation of what progress, wealth and well-being actually are, decide how they should be ...
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British-US survey team captures dramatic images of Antarctic shelf break-up
British Antarctic Survey, collaborating with the University of Colorado, has captured dramatic satellite and video images of an Antarctic ice shelf that looks set to be the latest to break out from the Antarctic Peninsula. A large part of the Wilkins Ice Shelf on the Antarctic Peninsula is now supported only by a thin strip of ice hanging between two islands. It is another identifiable impact of ...
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Cool comfort technology with desert hot application
Technology devised in Christchurch to help improve comfort in outdoor urban settings, is now being used in the Middle East for the exact opposite reason from that originally intended - to keep people cool in the scorching desert environment, rather than warm in New Zealand’s more temperate climate. Engineering firm Aurecon has created an urban comfort assessment model where they are able ...
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Efficient wastewater treatment for efficient engines
Kompressorenbau Bannewitz GmbH (KBB) has decided that it will no longer have wastewater from its various processes collected by a waste management company. Instead, the Saxon company has opted to deploy a VACUDEST vacuum distillation system from H2O GmbH. The resulting annual savings amount to €40,000. What impression has the new system for zero liquid discharge production left at KBB GmbH? ...
By H2O GmbH
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Low-Flow groundwater sampling - latest research and equipment options
Details: Date: Thursday, 29th March 2018 Time: 1:30 p.m. EDT Duration: 45 minute presentation, 15 minute Q & A About This Webinar: In this webinar, David Kaminski will present the latest information on well purging protocols, and discuss low-flow sampling pump options, including the newest pumping equipment available for low-flow sampling. David will describe traditional well purging ...
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EPA and MassDEP joint statement on fire response in Boston’s back bay
The US Environmental Protection Agency (US EPA) and the Massachusetts Dept. of Environmental Protection (MassDEP) have worked collaboratively at the request of the Boston Public Health Commission, City of Boston response agencies and the Mayor’s Office to provide technical support during the City’s response to last night’s fire. The environmental agencies have provided air ...
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Regional variations in awareness of WEEE, suggests new research
There are significant regional variations in awareness of the waste electrical and electronic equipment Regulations among small electrical businesses, according to new research from WEEE compliance scheme for gas discharge lamps Recolight. The study showed that 23 per cent of those in Greater London were unaware of the regulations. Scotland follows closely behind with 17 per cent of smaller ...
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European greenhouse gas emissions down 0.9%
Provisional greenhouse gas emissions data compiled by the EEA show that EU-15 Member States reduced their emissions by 0.9 % between 2005 and 2006. EU-27 emissions are now 7.4 % below 1990 levels. The European Environment Agency annually compiles the European Community greenhouse gas (GHG) inventory report, which is formally submitted by the European Commission to the United Nations Framework ...
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Activists walk out of UN climate talks
Hundreds of environmental activists walked out of U.N. climate talks on Thursday, saying they were deeply disappointed by the lack of results with just one day remaining. Wearing "Polluters talk, we walk" T-shirts, the activists streamed out of Warsaw's National Stadium, where rich and poor countries were arguing over who should do what to fight global warming. The two-week session in the ...
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EPA awards over $145,000 to monitor air in New Mexico
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) awarded $145,029 to the New Mexico Environment Department to purchase ambient air monitoring equipment. The equipment will be used to increase efficiency of captured data in New Mexico’s border region and oil and natural gas producing areas. EPA uses ambient air monitoring information collected from states to calculate daily air quality ...
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Landfill tax will cost councils GBP 600m next year
Landfill tax will cost local authorities in England £600 million next year and the Local Government Association has called for Government to announce plans for what the landfill tax will be beyond 2010/11. An LGA spokesman told MRW that councils in England will be paying £600m to send waste to landfill. From this April landfill tax will go up from £32 per tonne to £40 per tonne. The spokesman ...
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