Environmental Daily Advisor Week in Review: September 29 – October 3
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Category: EHS Management
National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship—Resources
National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship—Resources The electronic devices and equipment we use all day every day at work and at play represent a huge challenge when it comes to ensuring these products do not end up in a landfill. For businesses of every size, however, the federal government is working toward making it both easier […]
National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship—Accomplishments
National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship—Accomplishments On America Recycles Day in November 2010, President Obama established the Interagency Task Force on Electronics Stewardship with the goal of developing a long-term strategy for managing electronics from cradle to grave. In the first update to the 2011 National Strategy for Electronics Stewardship (NSES), the Task Force outlined some […]
Environmental Daily Advisor Week in Review- September 8-12
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EPA’s Audit Policy—Nine Things to Remember
EPA’s Audit Policy—Nine Things to Remember The EPA promulgated the first Audit Policy in 1995 and revised it in 2000, expanding availability, clarifying language, and conforming to Agency practices. Today, it remains a valuable option for regulated facilities to take advantage of benefits such as elimination or reductions in civil “gravity-based” penalties, no recommendations for […]
UST O&M – Release Detection Changes in the Works
UST O&M—Release Detection Changes in the Works Leak detection is a key component of a compliant UST operation, but one that is often found to be lacking when it comes to ongoing system O&M. According to the EPA, although inspectors often find release detection equipment installed on UST systems, they also routinely find that it […]
UST O&M – Walkthrough Inspection Changes in the Works
UST O&M—Changes in the Works Historically, the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) UST regulations were focused on improved equipment, with not a lot of attention given to O&M practices. However, based on more than 20 years of regulatory experience, the EPA acknowledges that a higher level of O&M, in addition to better equipment, is required to […]
President’s Pollinator Protection Strategy
Even as we swat away the last bees of summer and watch the occasional butterfly flit among flowers, agriculturalists are feeling the impact of the dwindling numbers of the pollinators we depend on for food crops. According to the White House, honey bees alone provide pollination for “at least 90 commercially grown crops in North […]
Highlights from EPA’s Water Technology Innovation Blueprints
For Americans, clean water that is available in almost unlimited quantities any time of the day or night is something we have grown to expect as normal. But there are many factors changing our water landscape and the EPA is acting now to define present and future water use, problems to address and how to […]
