HPI Products Inc. and Owner to Pay $150,000 in Environmental Penalties
HPI Products Inc., of St. Joseph, Mo., along with an affiliated property holding corporation and the owner of both companies, have agreed to pay a total of $150,000 in civil penalties, in addition to covering undetermined cleanup costs at six of their chemical processing and manufacturing facilities, to settle a series of alleged violations of state and federal environmental laws...
New York Air Monitoring Firm, Supervisors Found Guilty of Fraud and Conspiracy
EPA and the U.S. Justice Department announced today that a federal jury in Utica, N.Y. has found Certified Environmental Services Inc. (CES); two of its managers, Nicole Copeland and Elisa Dunn; and one of its employees, Sandy Allen, guilty of conspiring to aid and abet Clean Air Act violations, commit mail fraud and defraud the United States...
EPA Proposes to Add Nine Sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List
EPA is proposing to add nine hazardous waste sites that pose risks to human health and the environment to the general Superfund section of the National Priorities List (NPL). Superfund is the federal program that investigates and cleans up the most complex, uncontrolled or abandoned hazardous waste sites in the country...
NSC: Dow Chemical Co. Receives Robert W. Campbell Award
On Oct. 4, the National Safety Council (NSC) presented The Dow Chemical Co. with its 2010 Robert W. Campbell Award at the opening session of the NSC 2010 Congress & Expo in San Diego...
Financial Performance: An Integral Piece of the Sustainability Pie
One would be forgiven for equating sustainable development with environmental responsibility. After all, the widespread onslaught of green marketing buzz in recent years has generated as much confusion over sustainability issues as it has highlighted the importance of conducting responsible business practices...
Please Hold for the Next Representative
Spending 25 minutes on the water department’s “emergency line” is the least of my problems when it comes to energy conservation...
Sustainability and Return on Investment (Without the Spin)
Let me cut to the chase and say that the ROI for sustainability can be good, but almost never as good as some other investments companies can make...
Building a Sustainable Tomorrow at Fluor
Fluor’s Health, Safety and Environmental Director Nancy Kralik explains how Fluor integrates sustainability into business...
BlueGreen Alliance Embarks on Nationwide Tour Advocating for Clean Energy Jobs
The BlueGreen Alliance is conducting a nationwide bus tour aimed at urging Senate action on comprehensive legislation that would create and save millions of jobs across the country building the clean energy economy. The Job’s Not Done Tour, a 3-week, 17-state, 30-city tour, launched in Los Angeles Aug. 16 and will conclude in Richmond, Virginia, Sept. 3...
EPA Proposes Improvements to Chemical Reporting
As part of EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, EPA is proposing several actions to improve reporting on chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)...
Minimizing Toxic Health Effects from the Gulf Oil Spill
While oil from the Deepwater Horizon spill may have stopped gushing into the Gulf of Mexico, experts are far from finished working to anticipate, outline and minimize the disaster’s potential health risks, according to a University of Alabama at Birmingham (UAB) School of Public Health researcher involved in helping the federal government deal with the spill’s repercussions...
Green Construction Helps Clear the Air in Lower Manhattan
As LMCCC coordinates the effort to rebuild Lower Manhattan, it also works to reduce exposures to noise, dust, vibration and other health hazards...
EPA Responds to Enbridge Kalamazoo River Spill
EPA has assumed the role of federal on-scene coordinator in response to the Enbridge oil spill in the Kalamazoo River. In that role, EPA will coordinate the response activities carried out by federal and state officials and will direct the response efforts carried out by Enbridge Inc...
Study: Unemployment, Economic Pressures Influence Support for Environmental Regulations
Continued support for off-shore oil drilling by Gulf Coast residents who are dealing with one of the most devastating environmental disasters in U.S. history might seem surprising, but new research from the University of New Hampshire (UNH) shows that local factors such as unemployment and population growth influence views about the value of environmental conservation and regulation...
Expert: BP a Classic Example of How “Greenwashing” Can Engulf a Company in Perilous Waters
At a 2002 Earth Summit, a group of non-governmental organizations offered a tongue-in-cheek critique of BP’s “Beyond Petroleum” campaign, naming it winner of the “Greenwash Academy Awards.” Today, the company’s reputation as an environmental steward and good citizen is in tatters...
McWane Inc. Settles with EPA, Agrees to Resolve Violations at Manufacturing Facilities in 14 States
EPA, the Justice Department, and the states of Alabama and Iowa announced that McWane Inc., a national cast iron pipe manufacturer headquartered in Birmingham, Ala., has agreed to pay $4 million to resolve more than 400 violations of federal and state environmental laws...
Minority Business Leader Blasts BP’s ‘Failed Response’ to Gulf Area Workers
The president of the National Black Chamber of Commerce expressed his outrage and concern over reports that hundreds of Gulf Coast fishermen have not received their scheduled hardship payments...
BP Blowout Shows Safety Systems Should Protect Workers, Environment First
“Safety systems should be designed to protect workers and the environment first, not exploration and production budgets,” according to congressional testimony by a conservation group that has worked on Gulf Coast restoration for more than three decades...
House Hearing Raises Questions on Safety Protections for Offshore Oil Workers
During a June 23 hearing, House Education and Labor Committee members raised serious questions regarding important worker safety protections on offshore oil rigs like the Deepwater Horizon...
Consumer Responses to Gulf Oil Spill Reflect Americans' Changing Corporate Expectations
Just as President Barack Obama called for in his address to the nation, Americans are demanding that BP and all other companies be responsible to both their shareholders and society, according to a new report from Rice University’s Jones Graduate School of Business...
CSB to Investigate Deepwater Horizon Blowout
In response to a request from the House Committee on Energy and Commerce to conduct a full and thorough investigation into the causes of the Deepwater Horizon rig explosion, U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) Chairman John Bresland pledged to investigate the accidental chemical release that destroyed the rig – but also stressed that such an investigation may pose a challenge to the board’s resources...
Consortium to Study, Minimize Effects of Gulf Oil Spill
The Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution (WHOI) is partnering with two Louisiana institutions to determine the myriad impacts of the Deepwater Horizon oil discharge into the Gulf of Mexico and to devise and implement possible solutions to the disaster...
ASSE 2010: David Michaels Outlines Goals, Hopes for the Future of Occupational Safety and Health
In a packed plenary session at the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) Safety 2010 conference on June 14, OSHA Administrator David Michaels provided a whirlwind overview of the agency’s recent actions and encouraged safety professionals to get involved and help shape the agency’s future...
ASSE 2010: Author Andrew Winston Wants Companies to Turn Green into Gold
Green is “a powerful trend shaping business, the way we eat and the way we live our lives,” Andrew Winston, author of the book “The Green Recovery” and co-author of the best-selling book “Green-to-Gold,” told a standing room-only audience during the opening keynote session of the professional development conference of the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) in Baltimore. Wilson is the director of the Corporate Environmental Strategy Project at the Yale Center for Environmental Law and Policy. He also has helped companies both large and small use environmental strategy to grow, create enduring value and build stronger relationships with employees, customers and other stakeholders. His clients include Bank of America, HP, Pepsi, Boeing, and IKEA...
OSHA and the Federal On-Scene Coordinator Sign Memorandum to Protect Workers
The federal on-scene coordinator for the BP Deepwater Horizon response and OSHA have signed a memorandum of understanding concerning worker safety and health issues related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill response in the Gulf of Mexico...
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