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Treating Imports at Philadelphia’s Ports

Guest columnist, Emma Fried-Cassorla, is a recent graduate from the University of Pennsylvania’s Master’s of Environmental Studies program.  During her time in the program, she concentrated on urban environmental issues including stormwater management, brownfield revitalization, and sprawl.  Her thesis focused … Continue reading

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Will The Keystone XL Pipeline Be Approved?

The Keystone XL pipeline has found its way back into the news in recent days, as Congress is pushing for the approval of the necessary permit.  The pipeline’s first press coverage resulted from a massive protest, which included over 1000 … Continue reading

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Brazilian Oil Spill Reminiscent of BP Deepwater Horizon Spill

Two oil leaks from deepwater drilling operations off the coast of Brazil have washed up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro.  In early November, a deepwater oil rig owned by Chevron and operated by Transocean began leaking approximately 200-300 … Continue reading

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Solar Rays Could Replace Petroleum

Yen-Ting Kuo, a doctoral candidate in chemistry at Kansas State University, is working on methods and materials that could replace petroleum fuels with ones made from the sun.  Kuo, originally from Taiwan, has worked for many years attempting to better … Continue reading

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EPA Stops Sale of a DuPont Herbicide

E.I. DuPont Nemours, commonly referred to as DuPont, received an order today from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to immediately stop the sale, use and distribution of one their herbicides.  The low-toxicity herbicide is called Imprelis and is used to … Continue reading

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Key Industrial Material, Now Greener

Weijie Ji, Chak-Tong Au, and colleagues claim they discovered an environmentally friendly way to produce acrylic acid, which is used in the production of goods such as paint, diapers, adhesives and much more.  The process eliminates the need for petroleum, … Continue reading

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OSHA to Adopt New Hazardous Chemical Classification System

OSHA announced that by August of this year it will finalize a rule adopting the globally harmonized system (GHS) for the classification and labeling of hazardous chemicals.  As a result workers and employers will be required to learn a new … Continue reading

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EPA Manufacturing Compliance

With the new year comes new deadlines, and EES wants to ensure your company is prepared for all upcoming state and federal compliance deadlines.  There are three important deadlines that are quickly approaching for manufacturing industry: Tier II Deadline:  March … Continue reading

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Hospital Sustainability Survey

After writing our Hospital Sustainability series (Parts 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, and 6) we were interested in learning more about your hospital or medical center’s “green” initiatives. We have created a brief survey to help us gather further information. … Continue reading

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Final Air Toxics Standards for Area Sources in the Chemical Manufacturing Industry

In October 2009, the EPA released new national air toxics standards for small to medium sized chemical manufacturing facilities that meet the “area source” definition (Subpart VVVVVV).  More stringent air toxics (also known as NESHAP or MACT) standards currently exist … Continue reading

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