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Greenleaf Management Offering Global Harmonization System Training this Fall.
Greenleaf Management will be offering training on the Global Harmonization System (GHS) this fall. Our first training session will be in August. By the end of 2013, employers are required to train all employees on the changes regarding labeling and material safety data sheets and how they will impact the workforce. Both employers and employees…
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Studies Show No Evidence of Contamination from Hydraulic Fracturing
Hydraulic fracturing of shale formations to extract natural gas has no direct connection to reports of groundwater contamination, based on evidence reviewed in a study released by the Energy Institute at The University of Texas at Austin. The study, released at the annual meeting of the American Association for the Advancement of Science (AAAS) in…
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EPA Releases 2010 Toxics Release Inventory National Analysis
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is releasing its annual national analysis of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), providing all Americans with vital information about their communities. The TRI program publishes information on toxic chemical disposals and other releases into the air, land and water, as well as information on waste management and…
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EPA Releases Formerly Confidential Chemical Information
WASHINGTON – As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to enhance the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s chemicals management program and increase transparency, the agency is making available to the public hundreds of studies on chemicals that had been treated as confidential business information (CBI). The move is part of EPA’s plan to make public…
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Oil Company Pleads Guilty to Clean Air Act Crimes in Louisiana
WASHINGTON — Pelican Refining Company LLC, pleaded guilty today to felony violations of the Clean Air Act and to obstruction of justice charges in federal court in Lafayette, La., announced Stephanie A. Finley, U.S. attorney for the Western District of Louisiana and Ignacia S. Moreno, assistant attorney General of the Environment and Natural Resources Division…
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OSHA issues 2011 Inspection Plan for High-Hazard Workplaces
WASHINGTON – The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration issued its annual inspection plan under theSite-Specific Targeting* 2011 (SST-11) program to help the agency direct enforcement resources to high-hazard workplaces where the highest rates of injuries and illnesses occur. The SST program is OSHA’s main programmed inspection plan for non-construction workplaces that…
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Obama Administration Has Stepped Up Action Against Unsafe Motorcoach, Trucking Companies
WASHINGTON, DC – The U.S. Department of Transportation announced today that in the last two years, the Obama Administration has issued as many imminent hazard orders placing unsafe bus and truck companies out of service as in the previous 10 years combined. As part of the administration’s effort to step up motorcoach safety, the…
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OSHA to Hold Forum to Identify Regulatory Options for Combustible Dust Hazards
WASHINGTON – Since 1980, nearly 150 workers have been killed and more than 850 injured in combustible dust explosions. To explore methods for preventing such explosions, the Occupational Safety and Health Administration invited outside experts to participate in a Combustible Dust Expert Forum May 13, 2011. OSHA will gather experts’ views on possible regulatory…
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EPA’s Renovation Repair and Painting Rule. “What You Need to Know”.
Introduction EPA’s Renovation, Repair, and Painting Rule (RRP) went into effect on April 22, 2010. It requires renovation and painting contractors and most other trades who work in pre-1978 housing and who might disturb painted surfaces to become Lead Certified Renovators by taking a “Lead Safe Work Practices” training. Why is the RRP Rule important? When…
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Bottled vs. Tap, What’s the Real Story
“Water, water everywhere; not a drop to drink”…This ancient rhyme by mariner Samuel Taylor Coleridge was resonating in my head while recently wandering in the bottled water aisle at a popular food mart. Yes…that is correct, stores now have their own bottled water aisles. Sales of bottled water have tripled in the last ten years…
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