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Even as more colleges and universities add “sustainable” degree programs, they are also seeing the light when it comes to their own waste management practices. One of these is American University (AU), in Washington D.C., where the zero waste mantra became a fight song in 2010 when the school adopted a 100% Zero Waste Policy. […]
On September 13, 2023, the EPA published a proposed rule in the Federal Register to amend the General Provisions for National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) to address applicability and compliance issues resulting from the addition of a compound to the list of hazardous air pollutants (HAPs) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). […]
Are you a retailer, or are you associated with a retailer, that needs to return retail products (that happen to be hazardous materials) to a manufacturer, supplier, or distribution facility? If the answer is no, read no further, but if the answer is yes, shippers of these “return-to-vendor” hazardous materials can now choose to comply […]
The Department of Labor ordered Asia Pacific Airlines to pay more than $2 million in wages, damages, and attorneys’ fees to an employee who was reprimanded, suspended, and then fired for raising aircraft safety concerns and refusing to fly a cargo plane the employee believed had an unreliable engine, OSHA announced December 11. OSHA investigators […]
The EPA has completed its residual risk and technology review (RTR) of the Clean Air Act’s National Emissions Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAP) for the Portland Cement manufacturing sector.
OSHA has issued a final rule, published in the August 9 Federal Register, to extend the compliance date for specific ancillary requirements of the general industry beryllium standard to December 12, 2018.
You might have a water project at your facility that would qualify for funding in the form of low-interest loans or loan guarantees under the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Water Infrastructure and Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program. Yesterday we gave you a rundown of the program and requirements. Today we will tell you […]
In March 2023, an industry challenge to the EPA’s April 2021 Revised Cross-State Air Pollution Rule (CSAPR) Update Rule was rejected by the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals. The rule required “power plants in 12 upwind states to reduce nitrogen oxide (NOx), an ozone precursor, emissions such that those states did not inhibit downwind states’ […]
By John E. Hall With much of the country in line for more high temperatures as summer winds down, employers should be mindful of employees’ exposure to heat hazards on the job. Although the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) has no heat standard, the agency has become increasingly willing to cite employers for employees’ […]