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Court Invalidates Air Monitoring Loophole
Last week, a federal appeals court struck down an EPA rule that exempted major industrial polluters from accurately measuring dangerous emissions. The court held that EPA violated the Clean Air Act in allowing the largest air pollution sources to avoid monitoring, recording, and recordkeeping of air pollution emissions needed to assure compliance with clean air laws. The EPA rule actually barred permitting agencies from requiring any of these activities in clean air permits.
Earthjustice challenged the 2006 EPA rule on behalf of the Environmental Integrity Project, Environmental Defense Fund, Natural Resources Defense Council, and Sierra Club. The rule specifically prohibited permitting authorities—
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OSHA Proposes More Penalties for Violations of PPE and Training Standards
OSHA announced in the Aug. 19 Federal Register that it is accepting public comments on a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking (NPRM) on Personal Protective Equipment (PPE) and training standards. The proposal clarifies that when an OSHA standard requires an employer to provide PPE, such as respirators, or training to employees, the employer must do so for each employee subject to the requirement. Each employee not protected may be considered a separate violation for penalty purposes.
"We want employers to understand the importance of complying with OSHA’s PPE rule for each and every one of their employees," said Assistant Secretary of Labor for OSHA Edwin G. Foulke Jr. "Without question, providing PPE for all employees will reduce costs, save money, and, most importantly,
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About Us
Environmental Resource Center is an environmental, health, safety, and transportation consulting firm that leads the way in serving industry, academia, and federal and state government agencies. Since 1981, our team of safety and environmental consultants has been helping organizations like yours identify and comply with all applicable environmental, health, safety, security, and transportation regulations from both federal agencies (EPA, DOT, IATA, DHS, and OSHA) as well as your state and local regulators.
To help you meet your environmental objectives, we hold training seminars on hazardous waste management and hazardous materials management throughout the country; we also offer many of our courses as live interactive webcasts; we conduct environmental audits, DOT audits, and safety audits; we provide customized onsite RCRA, DOT, and OSHA training classes; and, via our answerline service, our environmental consultants work with you to ensure you are in compliance with any permitting requirements as well as other environmental and safety regulatory issues.
To contact one of our safety and environmental consultants, for more information about our RCRA, DOT, IATA, and OSHA seminars or webcasts, onsite hazardous waste training and hazardous materials training, HAZWOPER training, and OSHA training classes, or for more information about our environmental audits, DOT audits, and safety audits click here or call 800-537-2372. |
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2009 Environmental Compliance Calendar
Need a quick way to find environmental deadlines that can impact your facility? Environmental Resource Center’s 2009 environmental compliance calendar lists many of the major deadlines that impact most industrial facilities. And, if you have ever found it difficult to find the right person to talk to at EPA or your state environmental agency, you’ll find the number to call in the calendar’s updated list of federal and state agency contacts. You can download the calendar at: http://www.ercweb.com/docs/
compliance_calendar.pdf.
Ontario RCRA Training Special
Register two people at full price for Hazardous Waste Management in California in Ontario September 3–4, and each additional person attends the same class for half price. To take advantage of this offer, click here or call 1-800-537-2372.
On-Site Training Saves Time and Money
You can depend on Environmental Resource Center for all of your EPA, OSHA, and DOT required training. Your on-site training will focus precisely on the needs of your facility and personnel and will always be up-to-date based on the latest regulatory and industry standards. With full time training staff in North Carolina, Maryland, Pennsylvania, Texas, Louisiana, Georgia, and Vermont, one of our instructors can provide not only your routine Hazcom, RCRA, DOT, HAZWOPER, and IATA training, but also training on a wide variety of other topics, such as DOT Hazmat Security, DHS Chemical Security, REACH, RoHS, WEEE, IMDG, SARA Title III, Storm Water, SPCC, TSCA, Ergonomics, Used Oil, and Universal Waste Management. Call us today (919-469-1585 x 224), and one of our instructors can provide your training as early as tomorrow.
Customized Online Training
Environmental Resource Center also offers customized online learning management system solutions. Known as HELP (Health and Environmental Learning Program TM), our learning management solution can provide online employee training, tracking, and testing on virtually any environmental topic in a manner that is fully customized to include your facility’s policies, procedures, and activities. For details, contact Amy Knight at aknight@ercweb.com.
Your Own Hazardous Materials Transportation Database
Let Environmental Resource Center create a web-based database of your company’s hazardous materials. We’llclassify your hazardous materials, generate proper shipping names, and develop packaging and labeling specifications for all modes of transportation. Your personnel will never have to guess at what must be entered on shipping papers; how packages must be marked or labeled, or how the IATA, IMO, ADR, and ADG regulations differ from DOT requirements. Click here to view a demo. For details, contact Amy Knight at 919-469-1585, Ext. 224, or aknight@ercweb.com.
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