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ARLINGTON, Va., Jan. 25 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- BNA Books, a division of specialized news and information publisher BNA, announced today the publication of the 2010 Edition of Spill Reporting Procedures Guide, which has been an indispensable industry tool since 1984. (Logo: http://www.newscom.com/cgi-bin/prnh/20090529/DC24463LOGO) The Guide, authored by Jeffrey J. Kimmel, a regulatory analyst, consultant, and former senior writer for BNA's Environment Reporter, provides facility...
Call On Congress To Tighten Restrictions on Lithium Batteries, Wet Lines BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The Teamsters Union said Monday that it supports legislation to ban the transportation of flammable liquid in the loading lines of tank trucks. Currently, 30 to 50 gallons of flammable liquid such as fuel can be transported in unprotected loading lines beneath tank trucks. On Friday, the National Transportation Safety Board had reported on a recent highway accident in New...
BALTIMORE, Nov. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Requiring tank trucks to purge excess fuel from the external product piping, or wetlines, will not improve the safe transport of flammable liquids and is dangerous to technicians that install the purging technology, American Trucking Associations (ATA) First Vice Chair Barbara Windsor told the House Subcommittee on Railroads, Pipelines, and Hazardous Material today. "We believe the industry's safety record demonstrates that a mandate for...
ROCKVILLE, Md., Oct. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- The Environmental Protection Agency has awarded Lockheed Martin (NYSE: LMT) a seven-year, $145 million contract to support its Environmental Response Team with technical and analytical expertise during environmental emergencies in the U.S. and U.S. territories. Under the Scientific, Engineering, Response & Analytical Services (SERAS) Program, Lockheed Martin will provide the EPA's Environmental Response Team with 24-hour support during...
NORFOLK, Va., Sept. 17 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- A special train will travel to New York, Ohio, and West Virginia Sept. 22-26 to provide emergency preparedness training to first responders as part of the 2009 Norfolk Southern (NYSE: NSC) TRANSCAER Whistle-Stop Tour. TRANSCAER (Transportation Community Awareness and Emergency Response) is a nationwide program that assists communities in preparing for and responding to a possible hazardous material transportation incident. "The TRANSCAER...
WASHINGTON, Sept. 14 /PRNewswire/ -- Personal Protective Equipment Conference 2009 (PPE 2009), which will be held at the Marriott Harbor Beach Hotel in Fort Lauderdale, FL, November 17 - 19, 2009, has been created as a professional development, education and networking resource for firefighters, law enforcement officers, military personnel, special weapons and tactics operators, bomb technicians, hazardous materials technicians, veterinary specialists, rescue team members, and other first...
MIDLAND, Mich., Sept. 9 /PRNewswire/ -- The Dow Chemical Company (NYSE: DOW) was presented today with its second consecutive TRANSCAER(R) National Achievement Award for extraordinary support of the TRANSCAER chemical rail transportation safety training initiative. Tim Scott, Chief Security Officer and Corporate Director of Emergency Services and Security for Dow, accepted the award at the 20th Continuing Challenge Workshop taking place today through Sept. 11 in Sacramento, California....
BASKING RIDGE, N.J., Aug. 26 /PRNewswire/ -- A Verizon Business elite team called MERIT -- Major Emergency Response Incident Team -- is ready to roll, when necessary, to protect thousands of miles of the company's communications network assets during natural disasters or hazardous materials incidents. With the Atlantic hurricane season in full swing, summer forest fires burning in several states, daily events including train derailments and industrial fires, plus the Santa Ana winds that...
WASHINGTON, Aug. 20 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Two manufacturing companies, in separate settlements, have agreed to pay civil penalties and take corrective measures to settle Clean Air Act violations resulting from explosions at two plants in 2002 and 2003 in Louisville, Ky., and Pascagoula, Miss., the Justice Department and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today. D. D. Williamson and Co. and First Chemical Corp. have agreed in separate settlements to pay a combined...
WASHINGTON, July 28 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Facilities that could potentially release highly hazardous chemicals resulting in toxic fire or explosion hazards are the focus of a national emphasis program (NEP) developed by the U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA). The program establishes policies and procedures for inspecting workplaces that are covered by OSHA's process safety management (PSM) standard. The Chemical NEP, a one-year pilot...
