According to EPA, currently available recycling systems can capture up to 99 percent of the mercury in fluorescent bulbs and the mercury can be reused in new bulbs.
The DOT agencies proposing the rule say the May 14 meeting will focus on chlorine transport and the May 15 meeting on anhydrous ammonia.
The agency plans to purchase thousands of the improved units and says it expects some of them to be available in time for this year's hurricane season.
Chlorine gas leaked by the January 2005 incident devastated the Avondale Mills plant and killed six of its workers. The plant never reopened.
The rule will increase by 500 percent on average the amount of energy cars can absorb before rupturing. This EPA photo shows a Graniteville, S.C., derailment, one of three incidents prompting the rule.
The U.S. Nuclear Regulatory Commission is seeking qualified candidates for appointment to its Advisory Committee on Reactor Safeguards (ACRS).
The agency has revised or clarified several compliance and monitoring provisions and has also corrected several omissions and typographical errors.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has been tasked by the Federal Emergency Management Agency to coordinate collection of orphaned hazardous containers from flooded areas in southern Missouri. Record-breaking rainfall early last week caused flooding in 70 counties and the City of St. Louis.
The fatal tunnel fire ignited Oct. 2, 2007, at the Xcel Energy Cabin Creek hydroelectric plant in Georgetown, Colo., about 45 miles west of Denver. This view shows the plant from the lower reservoir.
EPA's Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) has upheld the agency's enforcement action against the owner of Lowest Price gas stations in Maryland, Virginia, and the District of Columbia. In cooperation with state and D.C. officials, EPA filed a complaint in September 2002 against gas station owner Euclid of Virginia Inc. for violating regulations designed to detect and prevent fuel leaks from underground storage tanks (USTs).
A new Engineering and Technology Roadmap details initiatives aimed at reducing the technical risks and uncertainties associated with cleaning up Cold War era nuclear waste over the next decade.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has ordered Strube Inc. to remove all radioactive materials from two adjacent warehouses in Marietta, Pa., where the company stores military aircraft instruments and components, including items that contain radium and mercury.
Drugs that we take are not entirely absorbed by our bodies, and are excreted and passed into wastewater and surface water, studies show.
Formulating quality coatings with low volatile organic compound content has been a high priority of the paint industry since the environmental movement began in the 1970s, ASTM says.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency yesterday fined the University of Guam $10,000 for hazardous waste and other waste management violations at its facility located at University of Guam Station in Mangilao, Guam.
"It should be understood that just because a material is not classified by the EPA as a hazardous waste doesn't mean that it is not hazardous from the standpoint of OSHA compliance," says the agency's Letter of Interpretation.
Inspections revealed that both Connecticut facilities failed to operate in compliance with applicable hazardous waste management standards, as well as regulations covering organic air emissions from tanks of hazardous waste.
Dr. Mike Holbrook, director of the Robert E. Shope, M.D., Laboratory, a Biosafety Level-4 lab at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston, deals with some of the deadliest viruses known to man, including Ebola, Marburg, Lassa, Junin, and Nipah viruses. It goes without saying that special precautions are put into place to ensure total security and safety.