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12/12/2016
How to Create and Update Clean Air Act SIPs
In April, we posted a Quick Guide on National Air Quality Standards, which covered how the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reviews and changes National Ambient Air Quality Standards (NAAQS) under the Clean Air Act (CAA). This guide also discussed how EPA works with states to implement changes to an NAAQS.
12/8/2016
EPA Proposes to Ban TCE for Certain Uses Under TSCA
US EPA has proposed a rule to “prohibit the manufacture, processing, and distribution in commerce of Trichloroethylene (TCE)” for certain uses. The proposed TCE ban is EPA’s first such action under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) as revised by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act.
12/6/2016
Latest on OSHA's New Injury and Illness Reporting Final Rule
In order to obtain more information about workplace injuries and illness, OSHA would like to require establishments with more than 250 employees that are already keeping OSH 300 logs to submit copies of their 300 and 301 forms each year.
12/6/2016
EPA Enforcement Roundup: Week of 12/6
Every day, facilities all across America receive Notices of Violation from US EPA for alleged noncompliance with a wide variety of programs like the Clean Air and Clean Water Acts, chemical management and reporting regulations, hazardous waste management and disposal standards, and much more.
12/1/2016
Hazardous Waste Export/Import Requirements Amended
The long-awaited Hazardous Waste Generator Improvements Rule wasn’t the only Final Rule EPA posted to the Federal Register last week. In addition to that major re-work of the RCRA hazardous waste rules, EPA posted a Final Rule to amend the export/import requirements for transboundary shipments of hazardous waste.
11/29/2016
December Hazmat Training in Chicago, St. Louis, & more!
With 2017 only weeks away, shippers face changing 49 CFR hazmat regulations—including major updates finalized by PHMSA this year. Hazmat shipping mistakes are now more costly than ever: PHMSA raised its penalties for hazmat shipping violations this year from $75,000 per day, per violation to $77,114 per day, per violation.
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