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Sep 12, 2019

New England States Ammonia Safety Day, Friday October 25, 2019 (Free Tickets)

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Keene State College will host the first New England States Ammonia Safety Day on Friday October 25, 2019. The event is being organized by Am...

First Human Case of West Nile Virus Reported in Wisconsin This Year

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The Wisconsin Department of Health Services (DHS) is advising residents to continue to protect themselves against mosquito bites as it a...
Sep 10, 2019

Free 4 hour Machinery and Machine Guarding

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Susan Harwood Training Grants provide training and education for workers and employers on workplace safety and health hazards, responsib...
Aug 21, 2019

The NIOSH Occupational Exposure Banding Process for Chemical Risk Management

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Occupational exposure limits (OELs) play a critical role in protecting workers and emergency response personnel from exposure to ...
Aug 1, 2019

Russian Titanic released 100 times more radiation in Europe than 2011’s Fukushima disaster.

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Mysterious radioactive leak that swept Europe came from Russia, study confirms despite Kremlin denial The source of a mysterious radioactive...
Jul 16, 2019

Scientists Have Discovered a Sea of Fresh Water Under the Ocean

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Quartz: Thousands of years ago, glaciers covered much of the planet. Oceans receded as water froze in massive sheets of ice blanketing ...
Jul 15, 2019

Federal Black Lung program is failing to prevent new illnesses AND running out of money.

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By Joe Davidson https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2019/07/11/black-lung-disease-cases-grow-while-federal-programs-financing-suffers ...

550,000 Acres on Fire in Alaska

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Two small communities near Anderson, Alaska were ordered to evacuate late Thursday due to a wildfire, as the state's summer of heat and ...
Jul 12, 2019

Updated Consolidated List of Lists under EPCRA/CERCLA/CAA 112(r)

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EPA revised the consolidated list of chemicals subject to the Emergency Planning and Community Right-to-Know Act (EPCRA); Comprehensive Envi...
Jun 26, 2019

Protecting pregnant employees who work with chemicals

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Lists for pregnant employee chemicals to avoid.   When reviewing (SDS) safety data sheet's, in addition to Section 11, Toxicology, Also ...
Jun 25, 2019

Study: fertilizer is root cause for increased global methane emissions, not cows

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While the cattle industry is repeatedly accused of being the main culprit for increased global methane emissions (and a leading cause for cl...

Anesthetic Gas: A Risk for Veterinary Workers

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There is increasing evidence that exposure to isoflurane, the anesthetic gas commonly used in veterinary practice, may pose health ris...
May 30, 2019

DOE Releases New Study Highlighting the Untapped Potential of Geothermal Energy in the United States

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy released a groundbreaking analysis detailing how the United States can benefit fro...
May 24, 2019

In case you forgot...60,000 tons of dangerous radioactive waste still sits on Great Lakes shores

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More than 60,000 tons of highly radioactive spent nuclear fuel is stored on the shores of four of the five Great Lakes — in some cases, me...
May 23, 2019

Work-Related Asthma in the ER

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Most people who go to work don't expect to end up at the emergency room for asthma. According to a Work-Related Asthma Prevention Progr...
May 21, 2019

Improvements to New Chemicals Website Increase Transparency

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EPA has updated its new chemicals statistics webpage to make it easier to find and understand how many chemicals are in each stage of the n...
May 14, 2019

​EPA to Hold First Meeting of the Science Advisory Committee on Chemicals

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WASHINGTON — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced it will hold the first meeting of the Science Advisory Committe...
May 2, 2019

EPA to Propose Revisions to Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Rule

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(PAINT.ORG), EPA provided notice in the Federal Register that it will be releasing a proposed rule to revise its Chemical Data Reporting (C...

​EPA and federal partners seek public input on draft GLRI Action Plan III

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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its federal partners are seeking additional input from the public on developing the Great...

CSB Calls on EPA to Update HF Study in Wake of the 2017 Husky Refinery Fire

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Washington, D.C. April 24, 2019 - Today, the US Chemical Safety Board released a letter calling on the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)...
Apr 17, 2019

The rise of Candida auris embodies a serious and growing public health threat: drug-resistant germs.

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(NewYorkTimes) Last May, an elderly man was admitted to the Brooklyn branch of Mount Sinai Hospital for abdominal surgery. A blood test ...
Apr 12, 2019

Post Fukushima - 23 countries still have bans on food imports from Japan because of the nuclear incident.

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In 2015, the Japanese government filed a complaint with the World Trade Organization. Japan said all the seafood it ships is safe because it...
Apr 10, 2019

U.S. Green Building Council Launches LEED v4.1

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Source (PAINT.ORG) On April 2,  the U.S. Green Building Council ( USGBC ) announced that the new version of the LEED green building progra...

Update: Waters of the United States (WOTUS) Rule

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Source (PAINT.ORG) In response to a number of Supreme Court cases that have complicated what constitutes WOTUS, or the "waters of t...

EPA Publishes List of 40 Chemicals for Prioritization Review under Amended TSCA

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(Source PAINT.ORG) On March 21, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published in the Federal Register its list of 40 candidate ...

Update: AIM VOC Rulemakings in New York, Colorado and California

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From (PAINT.ORG) Colorado and New York are proposing to adopt the Northeast Ozone Transport Commission (OTC) Phase II model rule limitin...
Apr 9, 2019

A Mysterious Infection, Spanning the Globe in a Climate of Secrecy

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" In the United States, two million people contract resistant infections annually, and 23,000 die from them, according to the of...
Apr 8, 2019

Giant Daily Drivers and Cellphones have U.S. Pedestrian Deaths Still Climbing

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According to the National Highway Association, 6,227 people were killed on the road last year, more than any year since 1990. The upward t...
Apr 5, 2019

OSHA's Occupational Medicine Resident Elective

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The Office of Occupational Medicine and Nursing (OOMN) in OSHA serves as an instructional site for current resident physicians who ar...
Apr 3, 2019

OSHA’s new webpage Available on Radiation Emergencies

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SHA's new webpage on   radiation emergency preparedness   is intended to help protect the health and safety of workers during situations...
Apr 2, 2019

DOE Announces Up to $26.1 Million to Advance Hydropower and Marine Energy

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WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) Assistant Secretary for Energy Efficiency and Renewable Energy Daniel Simmo...
Apr 1, 2019

Trader Joe’s Phasing Out Single-Use Plastics Nationwide Following Customer Petition

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By Madison Dapcevich As the world suffocates from its  plastic  addiction, a growing number of businesses are stepping up to the plate to re...
Mar 21, 2019

EPA Identifies 40 Chemicals to Prioritize for Risk Evaluation

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WASHINGTON   — Today, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is publishing a list of 40 chemicals to begin the prioritization proces...
Mar 18, 2019

Preventing Illness from Silica Dust

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Workers in construction and manufacturing jobs are often exposed to respirable crystalline silica, which is released when cutting or drillin...
Mar 6, 2019

Attorneys Implore Judge to Keep Sailors’ Fukushima Case in U.S.

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SAN DIEGO (CN) – Former Senator John Edwards and his co-counsel implored a federal judge Wednesday not to dismiss claims from U.S. service m...