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Confined Spaces: How to Protect Workers From This Deadly – and Underestimated – Hazard
Make no mistake about the dangers: Approximately 20 workers die each year in confined spaces incidents. Ironically, 60 percent of those facilities are well-meaning, but untrained, would-be rescuers who lose their own lives in the process of trying to save someone else.
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SPCC Delayed Again
EPA has further delayed the effective date of the final rule that amends the Spill Prevention, Control, and Countermeasure (SPCC) regulations promulgated last December.
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EPA to Review Mountaintop Mining Permits
EPA has sent two letters to the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers expressing serious concerns about the need to reduce the potential harmful impacts on water quality caused by certain types of coal mining practices, such as mountaintop mining.
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This Week's Poll
Does the extension of the SPCC effective dates help or hinder your operations?
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Last Week's Poll
EPA has issued a statement claiming that greenhouse gases, including CO2, are a danger to human health and the environment. You can expect regulation of these substances to follow soon. Last week we asked if your business would survive the costs of regulation. Find out what most people said.
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Disinfection By-product Violation
The Missouri Department of Natural Resources reported that the city of Cameron was in violation of state and federal drinking water regulations governing by-products from the city's drinking water disinfection process.
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Poll: Most Disagree with EPA's 2010 Budget
In 2010, EPA will be getting 34 percent more money from the government than it did in 2009 for Agency programs. In a recent poll, Enviro.BLR.com readers said they don't like the way EPA will be spending its 2010 budget.
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Player Profiles in the Climate Play-offs
The dawn of the Obama administration and the 111th Congress has been ripe with news about clean energy and climate change policy--with much of Washington wondering if there will be a true change in direction for laws governing how the nation consumes energy and emits greenhouse gases.
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EU REACH Regulation
This thread seeks advice on dealing with REACH requests from customers under the new European Union (EU) regulation. Can you share your experience with this?
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OSHA Challenge: General Safety
29 CFR 1910.1020 is the standard regulating access to employee exposure and medical records. It specifies the time that an employer has to comply with an employee’s request or apprise the employee for the reason for the delay and the earliest day when the record can be made available. Which of the following is true?
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