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UPS to deliver $1 million To `HandsOn Network` in celebration of volunteerism
UPS (NYSE:UPS) employees throughout the world will participate in UPS's eighth annual Global Volunteer Month in October, a month encouraging UPS's more than 400,000 employees to give back through service and organizations that are most meaningful to them. To kick off the month of volunteerism, UPS is presenting the HandsOn Network, the country's largest volunteer network, a $300,000 grant to ...
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Logan airport oil storage facility operators fined for inadequate oil spill training
BOSFuel Corp. and Swissport Fueling, Inc., operators of an oil storage facility at Boston’s Logan Airport, will pay a $90,000 penalty for failing to take adequate precaution to contain oil spills. The Logan facility is operated by BOSFuel, a consortium of major airlines, and has an oil storage capacity of over seven million gallons. Swissport Fueling operates the facility on a day-to-day ...
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DESMI Adds Accredited Oil Spill Response Training
Leading oil recovery solution manufacturer DESMI has obtained Nautical Institute accreditation for its IMO Oil Pollution Preparedness and Response (OPRC) training courses, becoming a one-stop shop for its customers around the world. In many spheres of education, it’s enough for course instructors to have a theoretical understanding of the field. In oil spill response, however, DESMI ...
By DESMI A/S
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Clean Gulf Conference and Exhibition
Ohmsett in Booth #413 at the Clean Gulf Conference and Exhibition Ohmsett is exhibiting at the Clean Gulf Conference from November 7-9 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. Clean Gulf is the premier forum to come together with your peers to discuss case studies and lessons learned from both recent and past incidents and discover the latest technologies being used in ...
By OHMSETT
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Ohmsett to Exhibit and Present at the Clean Waterways Conference 2022
Ohmsett, The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility, will have an exhibit in Booth #215 at the Clean Waterways Conference April 6-7, 2022 at the David L. Lawrence Convention Center in Pittsburgh, PA. CLEAN WATERWAYS serves the spill response industry in prevention, preparedness, and response in the inland environment. It delivers a forum for attendees to come ...
By OHMSETT
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Ohmsett to exhibit and present at the Clean Gulf 2022 Conference & Exhibition
Ohmsett is pleased to exhibit at the Clean Gulf Conference from November 8-10 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Wednesday, November 9, Ohmsett Program Manager Tom Coolbaugh will chair Track 5: Response Technologies and Research Oil Spill Response Facilities Capabilities Overview and Future Opportunities. The presenters during this session will provide ...
By OHMSETT
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The National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility to exhibit and present at the Clean Gulf 2022 Conference
Ohmsett is pleased to exhibit at the Clean Gulf Conference from November 8-10 at the Ernest N. Morial Convention Center in New Orleans, Louisiana. On Wednesday, November 9, Ohmsett Program Manager Tom Coolbaugh will chair Track 5: Response Technologies and Research Oil Spill Response Facilities Capabilities Overview and Future Opportunities. The presenters during this session will provide ...
By OHMSETT
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The National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility to exhibit and present at the Clean Gulf 2021 Conference & Exhibition
- Ohmsett, is pleased to exhibit at the Clean Gulf Conference from Nov. 16-18 at the Henry B. Gonzalez Convention Center in San Antonio, Texas. On Tuesday, November 16, Ohmsett Program Manager Tom Coolbaugh will co-chair the API preconference Workshop: Oil Spill Response - Beyond the Basics. Ohmsett staff, Grant Coolbaugh and Philip Sontag will join the talk on the science and technology that ...
By OHMSETT
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Oil Spill Response Strategies & Tactics Training Course
Training at Ohmsett takes the learning from the classroom, to the 2.6 million gallon wave/two tank. That's where students receive hands-on training with the latest spill response equipment and techniques used in the field. With emphasis is on practical experience in full-scale oil recovery operations in the Ohmsett tank, Studens can increase their proficiency using boom and skimmers while ...
By OHMSETT
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Hands-on Oil Spill Response Strategies & Tactics Training
Training at Ohmsett takes the learning from the classroom, to the 2.6 million gallon wave/tow tank. That’s where students receive hands-on training with the latest spill response equipment and techniques used in the field during the hands-on Oil Spill Strategies and Tactics Training, May 14-17, 2019 and August 6-9, 2019 in Leonardo, New Jersey. With the emphasis on practical experience in ...
By OHMSETT
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35,000 gallons of oil spills after Montana train derailment
Four tank cars leaked an estimated 35,000 gallons of oil after a train hauling fuel from North Dakota derailed in rural northeastern Montana, authorities said. The spill marked the latest in a series of wrecks across the U.S. and Canada that have highlighted the safety risks of moving crude by rail. No one was reported injured in the accident Thursday night that triggered the evacuation of ...
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Ohmsett staff to Participate at the Interspill 2022 Conference
Ohmsett—The National Oil Spill Response Research & Renewable Energy Test Facility will exhibit at the Interspill 2022 Conference, www.interspill.org, to be held at the RAI Convention Center in Amsterdam, Netherlands June 21-23, 2022. Interspill attracts international experts and leaders from the spill industry to exhibit, discuss key topics, and debate issues around spill prevention, ...
By OHMSETT
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SEACOR Response and Pollution Control Equipment Ltd Form Alliance for Provision of Oil Spill Response in Uganda
SEACOR Response, a global leader in emergency preparedness and response solutions, and Pollution Control Equipment Ltd (PCE), a local provider of pollution services and equipment, announced today that they have formed an alliance to provide a broad range of oil spill preparedness and response solutions to support the developing oil and gas sector in Uganda. "SEACOR Response has seen considerable ...
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EVTN Invited to Speak at World`s Largest Oil Spill Response & Training Event
FORT LAUDERDALE, Fla., Nov. 29, 2011 /PRNewswire/ -- Enviro Voraxial Technology, Inc. (OTCQB: EVTN) announced today that the Company has been invited to be a guest speaker at the upcoming Clean Gulf Training and Exhibition on November 30-December 1 in San Antonio, Texas. EVTN will display its new high volume Submersible Voraxial® 8000 Separator at this Exhibition. The ...
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Ohmsett Staff to Exhibit at Clean Waterways 2023
Ohmsett is exhibiting at the Clean Waterways Conference in booth #210, April 11-13, 2023, at the Hilton Denver City Center in Denver, Colorado. We invite you to join us and are pleased to offer you a friends and family discount to attend. Register online using VIP code: EXHINVITE to receive over 40% off regular rates. This conference will connect you with the right people involved in incident ...
By OHMSETT
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GFL’s Emergency Response goes beyond the field
The words “emergency response” may evoke a picture of workers in hazmat suits attending incidents from oil spills to train derailments. No matter how these events begin, GFL’s on-site responders enter every emergency, regardless of scale, with a level of knowledge and professionalism that is the backbone of the company’s success in the ER space. Meet three of our ER ...
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More than 10,000 participants have joined the GuLF STUDY: NIH seeking thousands more oil spill workers to find potential health effects of spill
Nearly two years after the Deepwater Horizon oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, more than 10,000 cleanup workers and volunteers have enrolled in the Gulf Long-term Follow-up (GuLF) STUDY, a national effort to determine if the oil spill led to physical or mental health problems. Reaching the GuLF STUDY’s target goal of 55,000 participants would make it the largest health study of its kind. ...
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Applied Research Associates, Inc. Selected as Contractor for the Operation of Ohmsett
Ohmsett, the National Oil Spill Response Research and Renewable Energy Test Facility, is a national research asset within the Department of Interior’s Bureau of Safety and Environmental Enforcement (BSEE). The test facility provides a unique environment for the development and testing of new oil spill response technologies, assessing spill prevention and response methods, and providing oil ...
By OHMSETT
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NIH launches largest oil spill health study
A new study that will look at possible health effects of the Gulf of Mexico's Deepwater Horizon oil spill on 55,000 cleanup workers and volunteers begins today in towns across Louisiana, Mississippi, Alabama, and Florida. The GuLF STUDY (Gulf Long-term Follow-up Study) is the largest health study of its kind ever conducted among cleanup workers and volunteers, and is one component of a ...
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NIEHS to fund $36 million in worker safety training
The National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) is awarding $36 million in grants to 20 organizations that develop safety and health training for workers involved in hazardous waste operations and transportation, environmental restoration of contaminated facilities, and chemical emergency response. These training programs can receive annual funding for up to five years. Five ...
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