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Jan 30, 2020

Audit Health and Safety Conditions with New HazardAssess App

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(CCOHS) Take action to reduce or eliminate health and safety risks in your workplace with the new HazardAssess app, available free of char...

Safeguarding: The First Line of Defence

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(CCOHS) Working with machinery puts workers at risk. Safeguarding is the essential first line of defense against potentially serious injur...

Occupational Cancer: Take Action to Prevent Exposures

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Every day millions head out to work, maybe not fully aware that in their job or place of work, they are being exposed to cancer-causing ...

EPA Posts Great Lakes Trash Free Waters RFA Questions and Answers

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EPA has posted an updated set of questions and answers pertaining to its Great Lakes Trash Free Waters RFA. On Tuesday, Jan. 7, 2020 GLNPO h...
Jan 29, 2020

U.S. Surgeon General Highlights the Value of Worker Well-Being and the NIOSH Total Worker Health(R) Approach

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(CDC) In a recent article in Public Health Reports, the U.S. Surgeon General, Vice Admiral (VADM) Jerome Adams, MD, MPH, recognizes th...
Jan 28, 2020

Two Nasty Traits Of This Coronavirus, Typically Not Seen Together

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Compiled what follows from a  Series of Thirteen Tweets  by physician (MD) and scientist (PhD)  Dr. Dena Grayson . Emphasis is mine. Dr. Den...
Jan 27, 2020

CDC Page on Novel Coronavirus (2019-nCoV)

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CDC is closely monitoring an outbreak of respiratory illness caused by a novel (new) coronavirus (termed "2019-nCoV") that was fir...
Jan 21, 2020

Nimonik hosting a Free Online Comprehensive Compliance Workshop.

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Hello, On January 30th, Nimonik is hosting a Free Online Comprehensive Compliance Workshop. To benchmark your compliance efforts in 2020, he...

EPA’s Final Rule to add hazardous waste aerosol cans to the universal waste program

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(FETinc.org) EPA has released a pre-publication version of its Final Rule to add hazardous waste aerosol cans to the Universal Waste progra...
Jan 20, 2020

China building more nuclear power facilities than any other country

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BEIJING, China - There are currently eleven nuclear power units under construction in China, the largest number of nuclear power facilities ...
Jan 13, 2020

2020 PFAS Seminar on remediating PFAS contaminants

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The 2020 PFAS Seminar that will bring together renowned industry leaders with knowledge on remediating PFAS contaminants in surface water, g...
Jan 10, 2020

Occupational Reproductive Hazards for Female Surgeons in the Operating Room

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JAMA: Importance   Higher rates of infertility and pregnancy complications have been found for female surgeons compared with the general pop...
Jan 9, 2020

Wanted: Water Department Manager in Milwaukee

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Water Department Manager in Milwaukee to help their company grow. What You Will Be Doing Implement Corporate Strategic Plan Create Business ...
Jan 8, 2020

Despite everything, U.S. emissions dipped in 2019

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From the GRIST Surging natural gas was the biggest reason for coal's demise. Gas comes with its own problems for the climate– burnin...

134 million Americans – more than 41% – lived in counties with unhealthy levels of either ozone or particulate pollution

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The American Lung Association's 19th annual "state of the air" report found that 134 million Americans – more than 41% – ...

Can adoption of pollution prevention techniques reduce pollution substitution?

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The open source journal PLOSOne had a recent article of potential interest to the P2 community. The researchers used TRI data to determine t...

EPA's Final Rule to add hazardous waste aerosol cans to the universal waste program

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From HAzMat-TSP "The Environmental Protection Agency is adding hazardous waste aerosol cans to the universal waste program under the ...

EPA will have approximately $5.5 billion in WIFIA loans to finance approximately $11 billion in water infrastructure investment with its 2020 appropriation.

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Congress provided $55 million in budget authority for the Water Infrastructure Finance and Innovation Act (WIFIA) program in the "Furth...
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...