August is peak water use season, but with a few simple tips from EPA's WaterSense program, homeowners can save water and as much as $110 annually on their water bills, said the agency in a recent press release.
The eRulemaking Program has launched a significant upgrade to the Web site that provides one-stop, public access to information related to current and forthcoming regulations issued by the federal government, according to a press releases from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). Enhancements to regulations.gov include improved search capabilities, new navigation tools, and easier access to areas for the public to provide comments on proposed regulations. EPA is the managing partner of the inter-agency eRulemaking Program, which operates regulations.gov.
International coalition Health Care Without Harm (HCWH) announced in a recent press release that it has entered into an agreement with the Clinton Climate Initiative (CCI), a project of the William J. Clinton Foundation, to develop programs to help hospitals and healthcare facilities reduce their environmental impact, particularly in the area of carbon reduction. HCWH will work with CCI to develop building energy efficiency retrofit projects and other carbon reduction strategies in healthcare facilities.
“Hazard Communication Guidance for Combustible Dusts” is a new guidance document recently published by OSHA that assists chemical manufacturers and importers in recognizing the potential for dust explosions, identifying appropriate protective measures and the requirements for disseminating this information on material safety data sheets and labels, according to an agency press release.
The safety of airport traffic control tower personnel is the focus of a new OSHA inspection targeting program titled “Federal Aviation Administration’s Airport Traffic Control Tower Monitoring Program,” which monitors how workers clear a control tower in case of fire and other emergencies. The inspection targeting program, conducted by OSHA, examines the Federal Aviation Administration’s (FAA) air traffic control towers’ provision of safe means of egress, or exit, for workers at FAA–owned and –operated towers.
In a comment to the Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) on its chemical release reporting rulemaking, the American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE), representing 32,000 occupational safety, health and environmental professional members, urged CSB to adopt a rulemaking approach that would avoid adding one more chemical incident reporting requirement when CSB is already effective in obtaining timely chemical incident information, when layers of chemical incident reporting requirements already exist, and when reporting comes at a time when a site supervision team is working to mitigate the impact of an emergency, according to an ASSE press statement.
President Obama's nominee to head OSHA, David Michaels, “should be grilled by the U.S. Senate about his links to trial lawyers and other anti-science activist groups,” according to a press statement from the blog JunkScience.com.
Thirty-five percent of drivers said they feel less safe than they did five years ago, according to the second-annual 2009 Traffic Safety Culture Index released by the AAA Foundation for Traffic Safety. Overall, the majority of American motorists report that they feel no safer now than they did five years ago.
American Society of Safety Engineers (ASSE) President C. Christopher Patton, CSP, sent the following letter to the New York Times regarding a Times article alleging that the U.S. Departmet of Transportation may have suppressed information in 2003 on the dangers of distracted driving.
EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson released the following statement in reaction to a new report from
McKinsey & Company that outlines opportunities for consumers, businesses and other institutions to save nearly $1.3 trillion in energy costs by 2020.
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