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PECO Smart Equipment Incentives for Health Care Facilities
Last week PECO hosted an event based on their Smart Equipment Incentives program. The luncheon specifically targeted health...
Heather Cummings
Feb 18, 20112 min read
Congress Continues to Resist the EPA Carbon Regulations
Last week EPA administrator Lisa Jackson testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. In the testimony Jackson...
Heather Cummings
Feb 15, 20111 min read
The EPA’s Pharmaceutical Disposal Position
In early September the EPA released a draft for Best Management Practices for Unused Pharmaceuticals at Health Care Facilities. The...
Heather Cummings
Feb 11, 20111 min read
President Obama on “Winning the Future”
President Obama spoke at Penn State, University Park last week. The president focused on energy innovation, and the implications of such...
Heather Cummings
Feb 7, 20112 min read
Goodbye Plastic Waste
A significant amount of household plastic ends up in landfills each year. This is due in part to our own laziness, but also due to the...
Heather Cummings
Feb 4, 20111 min read
OSHA Reminds Employers and Workers of Snow Removal Risks
This winter season seems to be hitting us left and right with snowstorms! With the accumulation levels and frequency increasing it is...
Heather Cummings
Feb 1, 20111 min read
OSHA Withdraws Noise Interpretation
Last week OSHA abruptly announced the withdrawal of their proposed interpretation on occupational noise. The purpose of the...
Heather Cummings
Jan 28, 20111 min read
Sustainability in Health Care
Last Friday our president, Tom Petersen, presented a speech regarding sustainability in health care to more than twenty Hospital Fire...
Heather Cummings
Jan 25, 20111 min read
Lone Star State Continues to Resist EPA
Once again the state of Texas is making headlines for their opposition to EPA regulations. In October EES brought you a post about...
Heather Cummings
Jan 21, 20111 min read
OSHA After 40 Years
Late in 1970 President Richard M. Nixon signed the Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) Act into law. In the four decades since the OSH...
Heather Cummings
Jan 18, 20111 min read
Federal Government to Pioneer E-Waste Reduction
President Barack Obama recently announced a cross-agency task force to combat electronic waste (e-waste). TheCouncil on Environmental...
Heather Cummings
Jan 14, 20111 min read
OSHA Announces Five New Rules for 2011
In an online dialogue last week the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced five new policies on their agenda for...
Heather Cummings
Jan 11, 20111 min read
Local Hospital Builds Onsite Energy Plant
In our blog last month we discussed a new EPA regulation, which focuses on reducing greenhouse gas emissions; however, the regulation...
Heather Cummings
Jan 7, 20112 min read
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...
Heather Cummings
Jan 4, 20112 min read
New OSHA Safety Directive
Today the U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced changes to their residential roofing...
Heather Cummings
Dec 28, 20101 min read
Holiday Gift from the 111th Congress
Earlier this month U.S. Representative Doris Matsui (D-Calif.) introduced the Diesel Emissions Reduction Act (DERA), which offers grant...
Heather Cummings
Dec 23, 20101 min read
College Sustainability Report Card 2011
Fall semester just concluded, but students are not the only ones receiving grades. GreenReportCard.org is the only independent...
Heather Cummings
Dec 21, 20102 min read
EPA Regulation Lacks Specifics
Beginning January 2, 2011, owners of factories, utilities and other companies will be expected to follow stricter emission standards...
Heather Cummings
Dec 17, 20101 min read
40 Years of the EPA...Thank You!
The New York Times recently ran an article regarding the success of the EPA. Given the current political comments regarding the agency,...
Heather Cummings
Dec 14, 20101 min read
The EPA Delays Changes to Air Quality Regulations
Last January the EPA announced their plan to modify current air quality regulations. They proposed a 10 to 15 part per billion (ppb)...
Heather Cummings
Dec 10, 20101 min read
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EES has been providing environmental health & safety consulting and engineering services for more than 25 years, serving healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, aerospace and higher education organizations across the United States and Canada.
President and Engineer Tom Petersen, P.E. has more than 36 years of environmental engineering, health & safety and process safety experience.
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