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Do a Google search on “Do environmental regulations hurt economic growth?” and you will come up with enough studies to cover a wall in your local public library. If you review the studies themselves – or at least flip through the abstracts – you will find most of the researchers answer “no.” That answer is […]
But in what appears to be a regulatory lapse, the federal odorant standards overseen by the Department of Transportation’s Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) apply only to LPG rail shipments in cargo and portable tank containers; there is no comparable regulation for LPG transported in railroad tank cars. In a safety advisory issued April 2012, the […]
Contaminants Groundwater that supplies wells can contain naturally occurring minerals (e.g., arsenic, boron, selenium, or radon). Also, almost all private wells are in rural areas where agriculture occurs. A wide variety of farming activities can affect groundwater that supplies wells. These include the use of pesticides, overuse of fertilizers and animal manure, and discharges from […]
Equipment Tagging is required for regulated equipment to distinguish it from non-regulated equipment. The Appendix sets the following penalties for failure to tag: $250 per valve, flange, connector, open-ended valve or line, sampling connection system, or instrumentation system; $1,000 per pump or agitator; and $5,000 per compressor, pressure relief device, surge control vessel, or bottoms […]
