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EPA Inspection? No Sweat!
BLR's newly updated special report, Environmental and Safety Inspections--Making the Most of a Bad Situation, will help prepare your facility for when EPA comes to visit. You and your staff will understand how to deal with government agencies, prepare for inspections, and avoid enforcement actions--and, if you are cited, how to respond to violation notices.
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Criminal Charges for Workers Who Polluted Stream
An investigation of an illegal discharge of pollutants in Missouri has lead to criminal charges against two individuals for violating the Clean Water Act.
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PHMSA Revises HAZMAT List
Under federal law, the DOT's Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) must ensure that its list of hazardous materials and reportable quantities (RQ) for those materials match all hazardous substances and RQs listed by EPA.
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This Week's Poll
Has your facility experienced employee complaints from the use of compact fluorescent lamps?
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Last Week's Poll
Last week we asked who should regulate pollution from motor vehicles. Is it the feds or the states? Find out what everyone said.
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EPA Seeks Data About Nanoscale Materials
What are the human health and environmental risks and benefits of nanoscale chemical products? That's what EPA wants to find out with its new Nanoscale Materials Stewardship Program.
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Ask the Experts: Land Treatment
I am trying to find out what a land disposal restriction notice is and possibly see a sample document. Does this accompany all HW manifests?
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[The Ask the Experts question is available to everyone for 1 week.]
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Climate Change Shows Value of EHS Managers
With the emergence of climate change as an environmental issue in the corporate market there is a great opportunity for environmental, health, and safety (EHS) managers to show off their value to the company by heading climate change programs.
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What Are You Worth as an EHS Professional?
BLR's 2007-2008 EHS Salary Guide will help you evaluate if you are being paid a fair amount for the responsibilities you are shouldering. In addition, EHS managers can find the information to keep their departments competitive and efficient--paying the right amount to retain hard-to-fill positions but not overpaying on others.
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Tool of the Week
HazMat Transportation (PPT)
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Rethinking Bulk Hazmat Transfers
Over the past 10 years, the annual rate of accidents associated with the transfer of hazardous liquids and gases to and from tanker trucks and railcars has remained basically unchanged. While many of these accidents were spills or releases that were quickly controlled, others involved catastrophic explosions, fires, and voluminous releases that caused death, injury, extensive damage, and large-scale evacuations of the public.
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CFLs
This thread seeks advice on switching from incandescent to compact fluorescent lamps (CFLs). Think you can help?
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OSHA Challenge: Exit Routes
The general industry rules state that an exit route means a continuous and unobstructed path of exit travel from any point within a workplace to a place of safety. An exit route consists of the exit access, the exit, and the exit discharge. Which of the following is the exit?
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Featured Environmental Resources
Easy EHS Plan--Stormwater Pollution Prevention
A simple, yet complete solution that delivers all the tools you need to develop a fully prepared, customizable, site-specific EHS plan for your organization.
2007 Most Misunderstood Environmental Regs Special Report
This report is a sampling of what the environmental editors at BLR think are some of the more perplexing regulations that EHS managers had to deal with in 2007.
Computer-Based Training: MSDS
Help your employees minimize serious MSDS risks by providing them with this interactive CBT course that allows them to train at their own pace--whenever they need it.
Environmental Compliance in [Your State]
The tried-and-true solution for federal and state environmental compliance.
RegUpdate.BLR.com
This twice-weekly e-mail notification service from BLR's environmental compliance experts keeps you updated on all state and federal regulatory activity.
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