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The Chinese government is planning to take six million high-emission vehicles off the road this year to reduce pollution, according to an announcement from the Ministry of Environmental Protection on Tuesday. Nearly 2.5 million vehicles will be taken off roads in Beijing, Tianjin, Hebei Province, and four municipalities and provinces along the Yangtze River Delta and Pearl River Delta, the ...

Jun. 12, 2014

By Climate Action

EPA proposed National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the paints and allied products manufacturing area source category. 74 Fed. Reg. 26142. The proposed emissions standards for new and existing sources are based on EPA’s proposed determination as to what constitutes the generally available control technology or management practices (GACT) for the area source ...

Jun. 1, 2009

By Bergeson & Campbell, P.C.

Bethel Park, Pennsylvania – Nacah Tech LLC engineers and furnishes VOC control systems for low concentration sources. The state run oil interests in India have approved Nacah Tech LLC as the VOC control supplier in conjunction with Nacah Tech’s Indian related sources. The process uses fixed bed carbon canisters to control the emissions from multiple sources in water treatment plants and ...

Feb. 22, 2008

By Nacah Tech LLC

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has awarded $360,000 to the Texas Department of State Health Services (TDSHS). The funds will be used to conduct inspections of demolition and renovation projects in public buildings as part of the state’s program for planning, monitoring, and enforcing national emissions standards for hazardous air pollutants. Additional information on EPA grants: ...

Sep. 22, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

RegScan, Inc., a Williamsport, Pa.-based company, proudly announces the expansion of U.S. TEAM Guides audit checklists to include the Environmental Protection Agency's New Source Performance Standards (NSPS) and National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP). The U.S. TEAM Guides checklists have been updated to reflect EPA's national emissions standards that were finalized in ...

Jun. 5, 2013

By RegScan, Inc.

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has reached an agreement with Wisconsin Plating of Racine (formerly Racine Plating Co.) on alleged Clean Air Act violations at the company's facility at 620 Stannard St., Racine, Wis. The agreement, which includes a $30,000 penalty, resolves EPA allegations that Wisconsin Plating violated EPA regulations regarding control of hazardous air pollutant ...

Aug. 12, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

WASHINGTON --The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) wants recommendations from small businesses on the best way to regulate air toxics from the production of bricks and structural clay products such as roof tiles. EPA is inviting small businesses to nominate representatives to participate in a Small Business Advocacy Review Panel that will provide input into the development of the ...

Dec. 23, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Rhode Island Airport Corporation and its demolition contractors, O.R. Colan Associates of Florida, LLC and The Jones Payne Group, Inc., of Mass., have agreed to pay $25,000 for alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act and National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Asbestos. Jones Payne will pay the full amount of the $25,000 penalty for its failure to provide EPA with ...

Jul. 26, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

The Department of Justice on behalf of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, along with the Commonwealth of Kentucky, have filed a complaint and entered into a consent decree with Logan Aluminum Inc. to settle alleged violations of the Clean Air Act’s National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for Secondary Aluminum Production occurring at Logan Aluminum’s ...

Dec. 8, 2010

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Calgon Carbon Corporation (CCC: NYSE) announced it has been awarded a three-year contract by a petroleum refining company in the Midwest to supply 30 carbon adsorption systems and reactivation services to control vapor emissions. The value of the contract will depend upon the amount of spent activated carbon that is reactivated annually, which is expected to be in excess of two million pounds ...

Apr. 7, 2015

By Calgon Carbon Corporation

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice have reached an agreement with Vertellus Agriculture and Nutrition Specialties L.L.C. on alleged clean-air violations at the company’s agricultural and nutritional chemical plant at 1500 S. Tibbs Ave., Indianapolis, Ind. The agreement, which includes a $425,000 penalty and a $705,000 environmental project, resolves EPA ...

Aug. 25, 2009

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

A printing company near Springfield, Mass. has paid a penalty of $118,600 to settle claims by the US Environmental Protection Agency that it violated the federal Clean Air Act. Suddekor, Inc., which is owned by a German company, is an international manufacturer of décor printed papers in Agawam, Mass. At its Agawam facility, paper is printed with inks containing hazardous air pollutants. ...

Dec. 6, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Pittsburgh, PA – Registration is still open for the Air & Waste Management Association’s (A&WMA) 2007 Hazardous Waste Combustor Conference and Exhibition to be held March 13-14 in Charleston, S.C. The advanced registration deadline for the conference is Feb. 19. In 2005, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants: Final ...

Feb. 16, 2007

By Air & Waste Management Association (A&WMA)

Johnson Crushers International, a construction equipment manufacturer based in Eugene, Oregon, released air pollutants into the environment in excess of federal limits, according to a settlement with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and U.S. Department of Justice. The company has agreed to pay a $147,788 fine for the Clean Air Act violations, as well as $27,212 in past permit fees. ...

Nov. 29, 2011

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Today, in compliance with settlement agreements, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) finalized revisions to standards to reduce air pollution from stationary engines that generate electricity and power equipment at industrial, agricultural, oil and gas production, power generation and other facilities. The final revised rule announced today will reduce the capital and annual costs of ...

Jan. 15, 2013

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd. (Zoomlion) will be exhibiting at the 15th China Beijing International Construction Machinery, Building Material Machines and Mining Machines Exhibition & Seminar (BICES 2019) from September 4 to 7 in Beijing, China, highlighting 32 intelligent products from six categories that showcases the brand's strength and innovative ...

Aug. 28, 2019

By Zoomlion Heavy Industry Science & Technology Co., Ltd.

JONESBORO, Ark., Jan. 10, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- Camfil Farr Air Pollution Control (APC), a leading worldwide producer of industrial dust and fume collectors, will host a free educational webinar titled: "The New EPA National Emission Standard for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP), Rule 6X: Are You Compliant?" The webinar will take place on Thursday, February 16th from 10:00 AM – 11:00 AM ...

Jan. 10, 2012

By Camfil Air Pollution Control (APC)

According to the United States' complaint, Hercules allegedly failed to adequately demonstrate compliance with the national emission standard for hazardous air pollutants for cellulose products manufacturing and violated related regulations on leak detection and repair. Cellulose fiber is the main raw material used in the manufacturing processes conducted at the facility, located at 1111 ...

Jul. 31, 2012

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

Cargill, Inc., a Delaware corporation, has reached an administrative civil settlement with EPA over alleged violations of the Clean Air Act at its Vitamin E manufacturing facility in Eddyville, Iowa. Cargill’s Eddyville facility uses the hazardous air pollutants methanol, methyl tertiary butyl ether, and formaldehyde to produce Vitamin E and similar compounds from soybean byproducts. ...

Sep. 9, 2015

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency

An EPA settlement will require that a Rhode Island chemical manufacturing company take multiple actions designed to minimize air emissions and protect air quality near the facility and in the surrounding community. The company, Mereco Technologies Group, Inc., has agreed to settle EPA claims that the company neither complied with the National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants for ...

Aug. 28, 2014

By US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency