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EPA makes chemical information more accessible to public
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s strong commitment to increase information on chemicals, for the first time, EPA is providing web access, free of charge, to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory. This inventory contains a consolidated list of thousands of industrial chemicals maintained by the agency. EPA is also making this information available on Data.Gov, a website developed by the Obama Administration to provide public access to important government information. This action represents another step to increase the transparency of chemical information ... |
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Government action plan tackles the forgotten pollution
Councils and businesses operating in some of the country`s noisiest urban areas will be required to provide details of how they plan to reduce noise levels following the publication of a new Noise Policy Statement for England.
The statement, which was released by Defra, sets out the government`s long term plans for tackling noise pollution and was accompanied by the release of noise maps that identify the noisiest locations in 23 of the country`s largest urban areas.
A spokesman for Defra told Businessgreen.com that under the new policy councils, traffic management authorities, rail operators ... |
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Use of DeconGel® for Beryllium Cleanup Wins Department of Energy’s Environmental, Security, Safety and Health (EESS) Achievement Award
CBI Polymers, a subsidiary of Cellular Bioengineering, Inc., is pleased to announce that National Energy Technology Laboratory (NETL) and Safety and Ecology Corporation (SEC) have won the Environmental, Security, Safety and Health (ESS&H) Achievement Award in recognition of their innovative use of DeconGel® as a beryllium decontamination technique for the mitigation and abatement of hazardous particulate. DeconGel® is a proprietary hydrogel used to efficiently and safely decontaminate surfaces of radioactive isotopes and other hazardous chemicals and toxins.
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