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Free Webinar - U.S. State-Level Environmental Product Regulations: What Lies Ahead for 2017?
Indications from Washington D.C. are suggesting a significant shift away from Federal environmental regulation. However, at U.S. State-level there has been significant increase in activity. This webinar will bring you up-to-date on the flurry of proposals for environmental product compliance at U.S. State level with recent developments in relation to product safety, chemicals, consumer ...
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Powercon Corp. settles hazardous waste violations at Severn, Md. facility
Powercon Corporation has agreed to pay a $40,000 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its manufacturing facility in Severn, Md., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. As part of the settlement, Powercon has also implemented a recycling project that will significantly reduce its hazardous waste. The settlement addresses compliance with ...
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Duke Energy reaches $7 million deal with NC on coal ash
Duke Energy agreed Tuesday to pay North Carolina regulators $7 million to settle allegations of groundwater pollution at its coal ash pits and to perform accelerated cleanups costing millions of dollars at four sites. The agreement came as lawyers for the country's largest electric company and the state were preparing courtroom arguments regarding a $25 million fine over groundwater pollution at ...
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York County Company Settles Hazardous Waste Violations at its Glen Rock, Pa. Manufacturing Facility
Bimax, Inc. has agreed to pay a $36,455 penalty to settle alleged violations of hazardous waste regulations at its chemical manufacturing facility, located at 158 Industrial Road in Glen Rock, Pa., the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced today. As part of the settlement, Bimax has also agreed to spend $305,000 to install a system that will eliminate 99 percent of the hazardous ...
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NC judge denies Duke motion to seal coal ash docs
A North Carolina judge on Friday denied Duke Energy's motion seeking to shield records related to groundwater pollution leeching from 33 coal ash dumps in the state while a separate federal criminal investigation is ongoing. Superior Court Judge Paul Ridgeway's ruling came after Duke defense lawyer Jim Cooney scaled back the company's request to restrict access to documents in a civil case filed ...
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EPA, Texas reach deal on clean air plan
Federal and state environmental officials said Wednesday that they've reached an agreement on portions of the Texas clean air plan that for years have been points of contention. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said the conditional agreement on state permits will allow some operating flexibility to major air-pollution sources, such as oil ...
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Michigan Recognizes GM’s Local Environmental Leadership
SOURCE: General Motors DESCRIPTION:(3BL Media) Lansing, MI – September 19, 2012 – General Motors continues to lead all Michigan organizations in Neighborhood Environmental Partner awards, receiving six more acknowledgements of superior community environmental projects and partnerships from the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality. This year’s winners are Lansing Delta Township Assembly, ...
By 3BL Media
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Dudley, Mass. Packaging Plant to Pay Nearly $485K Penalty for Environmental Violations
A packaging company has agreed to pay $484,900 in penalties to settle EPA claims that it violated numerous federal and state environmental regulations at its liquid and aerosol packaging facility in Dudley, Mass. According to EPA’s complaint, filed in Sept. 2012, Shield Packaging Company, Inc. violated rules regarding hazardous waste management, chemical accident prevention, hazardous ...
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EPA and SEPTA settle hazardous waste violations
The US Environmental Protection Agency and the Southeastern Pennsylvania Transportation Authority (SEPTA) have settled alleged violations of hazardous waste and underground storage tank regulations at nine SEPTA facilities. In addition to a $169,527 civil penalty, SEPTA has agreed to spend $1.1 million on a project that will provide significant environmental and public health benefits. SEPTA ...
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EC takes nine member states to Court over environmental liability
The European Commission has decided to refer nine Member States to the European Court of Justice for failing to transpose the EU directive on liability for damage to the environment into their domestic law. The deadline was 30 April 2007. The nine are Austria, Belgium (concerning the Brussels region only), Greece, Finland, France, Ireland, Luxembourg, Slovenia and the United Kingdom. ...
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EPA's Regional Haze Guidelines Require Thousands of U.S. Facilities to Evaluate Eligibility for "Best Available Retrofit Technology" - 26 Industrial Categories Affected by Regional Haze Rule
August 17, 2004 - Westford, MA - Proposed amendments to EPA's Regional Haze Rule require thousands of large production and processing plants, electric plants, and other stationary air emissions sources in 26 industrial categories to be evaluated for eligibility of "best available retrofit technology" (BART). Published May 5 this year, the guidelines will be finalized no later ...
By AECOM
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Protecting Workers from Exposure to Ionizing and Non-ionizing Radiation Sources
For over forty years the reactors located at the Hanford site in Washington produced plutonium for the country’s defense programs. Production of plutonium ended at the facility in the late 1980s, shortly before an agreement was signed between the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE), Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), and Washington State, to bring the Hanford site into compliance with ...
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Clean air and air permitting milestones
Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that all ‘flexible permit’ companies in Texas have agreed to apply for approved air permits, helping to achieve clean air in the state and providing for regulatory certainty. In September 2010, EPA notified all of the 136 ‘flexible permit’ companies that they needed to seek Clean Air Act compliant permits ...
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Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. Wins Application Maintenance and Support Contract with the State of Florida`s Department of Environmental Protection
Integrated Computer Solutions, Inc. (ICS) is pleased to announce that the Florida Department of Environment Protection (DEP) has extended a contract with ICS for application support and maintenance outsourcing for fiscal year 2012-2013. The application maintenance and support contract originally awarded to ICS through the Office of Technology Information Services (OTIS) in 2010 provided a new ...
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U.S. EPA Finds Petaluma, Calif., Superfund Site Clean
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today announces it has deleted the Sola Optical USA, Inc. site in Petaluma, Calif., from the Superfund National Priorities List (NPL). Between 1978 and 2001, Sola Optical USA, Inc. owned and operated an optical lens manufacturing facility at the site in Petaluma, Calif. As a result of Sola Optical’s manufacturing processes, chlorinated solvents and ...
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State IDs Faulty Tanks; Now Tank Law is being scaled Back
After a 2014 chemical spill polluted drinking water for more than 300,000 people in West Virginia, lawmakers there quickly mandated tighter surveillance of the state's chemical storage tanks. It revealed dozens of tanks that shouldn't have been in service still posed a potential threat to drinking water for more than 134,000 people downstream. Many were corroded and a few were filled with ...
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Cardno Acquires U.S. Government Environmental Consulting Firm
International infrastructure and environment services group, Cardno Limited (ASX: CDD) today announced the acquisition of EM-Assist, Inc. a 150-person environmental services and compliance management firm, headquartered near Sacramento, California, USA. Cardno will pay up to US$14.25 million for the purchase of EM-Assist. Around ten percent (10%) of the purchase price is subject to ...
By Stantec
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Role of Power Plant Consulting Firms in IIoT and Remote O&M
Power plant engineering and consulting firms have both a big potential IIoT opportunity but also the threat of a radically different environment which would reduce revenues. Positive Aspects of IIoT & Remote O&M empowered by IIoW for consulting companies: Substantial revenues directly associated with IIoT and Remote O&M Promotional value of niche expertise leading to larger ...
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Trinity Consultants Opens Office in San Francisco Bay Area to Serve Northern California
Trinity Consultants, an international environmental consulting firm that specializes in industrial air quality issues, recently opened an office in the San Francisco Bay Area to better serve industry in Northern California. Melissa Hillman, an environmental professional with nearly a decade of experience, will lead the new office. The new office joins Trinity’s Irvine staff in assisting ...
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Conservation group files lawsuit against Department of Energy over southwest energy corridor
On behalf of the Center for Biological Diversity, the Western Environmental Law Center today filed suit in federal court in the central district of California to challenge the Department of Energy's October 2007 designation of the Southwest National Interest Electric Transmission Corridor - a sweeping, 45-million-acre area that includes seven southern California and three Arizona counties - for ...
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