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Dec 30, 2019

Japan Is Considering To Dump Radioactive Water From Fukushima Into The Pacific Ocean

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According to TOI, the new proposal stated the methods have been implemented previously, after the core meltdown at Three Mile Island in 1979...

Chinese metal mines feed the global demand for gadgets. They’re also poisoning China’s poorest regions.

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Toxic dust and runoff bring soaring levels of dangerous metals such as cadmium and lead. Source https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/asia_pa...
Dec 19, 2019

Fukushima: Lessons learned from soil decontamination after nuclear accident

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December 18, 2019/in Focus Story, Remediation /by hazmatmag (From https://www.soil-journal.net/5/333/2019/ ) Following the accident at the F...
Dec 3, 2019

OSHA Enforcement and Compliance Increases in 2019 To Keep America’s Workforce Safe

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WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration's (OSHA) fiscal year (FY) 2019 final ...

Clearing the Air on Respiratory Hazards

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CCOHS - For many workers, their jobs can take an unexpected toll on their physical health. An occupational disease can be disruptive, dis...
Nov 25, 2019

Highly Radioactive Particles From Fukushima Mapped

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A recent study published in the scientific journal "Chemosphere," involving scientists from Japan, Finland, France, and the Unite...
Nov 20, 2019

This humidity digester breathes in atmospheric water and exhales energy

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(ScienceDaily) Integrating a super moisture-absorbent gel with light-active materials, researchers in Singapore have developed a humidit...
Nov 19, 2019

A secretive startup backed by Bill Gates has achieved a solar breakthrough aimed at saving the planet.

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CNN -  Heliogen, a clean energy company that emerged from stealth mode on Tuesday, said it has discovered a way to use artificial intelligen...
Nov 18, 2019

Iowa wind farm sending many giant blades to landfills, will create over one million tons of fiberglass

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"Landfills are really struggling to manage them, and they just decide they can't accept them...." Bill Rowland, president of t...

Wisconsin Announces Multi-Agency Coordinating Council for PFAS, Begins Process for Additional PFAS Rulemaking

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(Michael Best & Friedrich LLP) Today, the Wisconsin Department of Natural Resources (DNR) began the process of implementing another pr...
Nov 13, 2019

NASA finds that Californians’ TRASH emits far more methane into the atmosphere than cattle ranches… should we ban trash services to solve the global warming problem?

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NASA scientists are helping California create a detailed, statewide inventory of methane point sources — highly concentrated methane r...

22 million gallons of nuclear waste under a concrete dome on a Pacific Island sinking into the land and the ocean.

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The Los Angeles Times has a harrowing new story about Enewetak Atoll in the Marshall Islands. Japanese forces invaded the small Pacific...

"We Have No Reason to Believe 5G Is Safe" - Scientific American

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The telecommunications industry and their experts have accused many scientists who have researched the effects of cell phone radiation o...
Nov 12, 2019

Severe lung disease characterized by lymphocytic bronchiolitis, alveolar ductitis, and emphysema (BADE) in industrial machine‐manufacturing workers

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Previously healthy male never smokers, ages 27 to 50, developed chest symptoms from 1995 to 2012 while working in the facility's product...

Artificial intelligence: Implications for the future of work and cognitive decision support systems (DSSs).

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Artificial intelligence (AI) is a broad transdisciplinary field with roots in logic, statistics, cognitive psychology, decision theory, neur...

Draft Risk Evaluation for Methylene Chloride for TSCA

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In the October 2019 draft risk evaluation for methylene chloride (MC), EPA reviewed a suite of potential MC exposures and made initial d...
Nov 6, 2019

DOE Announces $24.9 Million Funding Selections to Advance Hydropower and Water Technologies

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WASHINGTON, D.C.  – Today, the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) announced selections for up to $24.9 million in funding to drive innovativ...
Oct 31, 2019

Russian Scientists Reveal First Photos of Massive Arctic Methane Fountain

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A group of Russian scientists has revealed the first pictures of a massive fountain of methane gas bubbling from the sea floor in the easter...
Oct 30, 2019

BIG News! EPA Announces New 5-Year Plan to Accelerate Restoration of the Great Lakes

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EPA Press Office ( press@epa.gov )  — Today, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator Andrew Wheeler and Region 5 Admini...
Oct 23, 2019

National Safety Council Position paper on marijuana and safety sensitive positions.

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The National Safety Council,  published a  Position/Policy Statement  on October 21, 2019 addressing cannabis (marijuana) impairment in ...

NFPA 470: The “New” Old Hazardous Materials Response Standards

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From Rick Edinger: In April 2019 I published an article entitled  "What Ever Happened to NFPA 472?"  In that piece I examine...
Oct 1, 2019

Supporting Farmers' Mental Health

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Farming is more than just work for many; it's a way of life that is rewarding despite the tough physical work. But now it's becomi...
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...