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Shipping Dry Ice: What You Should Know

4/2/2018

Shipping Dry Ice: What You Should Know

Dry ice plays a key role in the transport of temperature sensitive goods like food and biological specimens. It’s important to realize, though, that dry ice is also a dangerous good when shipped by air.
Coast Guard Raises Penalties for Hazmat Vessel Shippers

4/2/2018

Coast Guard Raises Penalties for Hazmat Vessel Shippers

The US Coast Guard today announced increased civil penalties for maritime violations, including hazardous substance and oil discharges and hazardous materials violations.
 
Lion Scores Four Nominations for Best Safety Training 2018

3/27/2018

Lion Scores Four Nominations for Best Safety Training 2018

Four popular Lion Technology training programs have been nominated for Best Safety Training 2018 in ISHN’s Readers’ Choice Awards! Submit your vote and let the world know you completed the best training available. 
 
New Dates Added! EPA’s e-Manifest System Live Training

3/26/2018

New Dates Added! EPA’s e-Manifest System Live Training

Lion has added two new sessions of the EPA’s new E-Manifest System Webinar to our Spring 2018 schedule. Join a full-time Lion instructor and RCRA expert and learn what you need to know to ensure a transition to electronic Manifests...
Hazmat Security: A Critical Tool in the War on Terror

3/26/2018

Hazmat Security: A Critical Tool in the War on Terror

History has shown that individuals and groups with nefarious motives will stop at nothing to hurt people to advance their cause. Because these groups may target hazmat shipments for theft or intentional release, shippers and carriers must take steps to protect these shipments in transit. 
IATA Launches DG AutoCheck to Verify the Hazmat Shipper’s Declaration

3/23/2018

IATA Launches DG AutoCheck to Verify the Hazmat Shipper’s Declaration

The International Air Transport Association (IATA) recently launched a new digital tool to help air carriers verify compliance with the IATA Dangerous Goods Regulations (DGR). Called DG AutoCheck, the new tool checks the Shipper’s Declaration and the packaging, markings, and labels against the latest edition of the DGR. 
 
Do Dangerous Goods Belong on Driverless Vehicles?

3/23/2018

Do Dangerous Goods Belong on Driverless Vehicles?

UPDATED 03/29/18 US DOT’s Pipeline and Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA) has released a request for information, or RFI, related to the development of automated technologies for transporting hazardous materials by surface modes, i.e., highway and rail.
 
Do You Need an SPCC Facility Response Plan?

3/19/2018

Do You Need an SPCC Facility Response Plan?

Under authority granted by the Clean Water Act (CWA), the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) established the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) program at 40 CFR 112. While most facilities subject to the SPCC rules...
 
Court Orders EPA to Complete Area Designations for 2015 Ozone NAAQS

3/19/2018

Court Orders EPA to Complete Area Designations for 2015 Ozone NAAQS

On March 12, a US District Court ordered EPA to complete its area designations by April 30, 2018 under its new National Ambient Air Quality Standard (NAAQS) for ozone, promulgated in late 2015.
 
EPA Enforcement Roundup: Week of 3/20

3/19/2018

EPA Enforcement Roundup: Week of 3/20

This week, the lessee of a massive Utah mining complex and two natural gas processing companies will pay restitution to US EPA. These are only a few of the environmental enforcement cases we read about this week.
 

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