The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is challenging electronics retailers and television manufacturers to increase the collection and responsible recycling of discarded TVs, according to a recent press release.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) invites the public to submit creative projects to the 3rd annual Rachel Carson intergenerational “Sense of Wonder” contest, the agency announced in a recent press release. There are four categories: photography, essay, poetry and dance. Dance is a new category this year.
OSHA has proposed $302,000 in fines against Sunfield Inc. in Hebron, Ohio, for alleged violations of federal workplace safety standards including three willful, 21 serious and one repeat.
Reps. Carolyn Maloney (D-NY), Jerrold Nadler (D-NY), Peter King (R-NY), and Michael McMahon (D-NY) have reintroduced legislation to address what Maloney’s office called in a press release “the health crisis” caused by the terrorist attacks of September 11, 2001. H.R. 847, the “9/11 Health and Compensation Act,” would provide medical monitoring and treatment for those exposed to toxins released by the collapse of the World Trade Center towers. The bill would also provide compensation for economic losses due to illnesses or injuries caused by the attacks.
U.S. Rep Frank Pallone, Jr. (D-NJ), a senior member of the House Energy and Commerce Committee, has introduced legislation in the U.S. House of Representatives that will “undo EPA regulations weakening toxic reporting requirements that have been in place for nearly two decades,” according to a press statement issued by his office.
U.S. Rep. George Miller (D-CA), chairman of the House Education and Labor Committee, Rep. John Barrow (D-GA), and Rep. Lynn Woolsey (D-CA), chair of the Workforce Protections Subcommittee, reintroduced legislation to prevent workplace explosions timed with the anniversary of the Imperial Sugar refinery disaster in Port Wentworth, Ga., which killed 14 workers and injured dozens. The day prior to the bill being reintroduced, six workers were injured when a coal dust collector at a power plant in suburban Milwaukee exploded while it was being cleaned, according to a news release issued by the Workforce Protections Subcommittee.
The Joint Commission and the National Quality Forum (NQF) are accepting applications for the 2009 John M. Eisenberg Patient Safety and Quality Awards, which recognize individuals and health care organizations that are making significant contributions in improving the safety and quality of patient care, according to a press release.
More than 170 public health organizations issued a letter today to Congressional Conferees urging them to maintain the House-passed level of funding for prevention and wellness programs in the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act of 2009, according to a press release from Trust for America’s Health (TFAH). The final U.S. Senate version of the bill removed all funding for these programs.
Two petroleum refiners have agreed in separate settlements to spend a total of more than $141 million in new air pollution controls at three refineries in Kansas and Wyoming, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Justice Department announced in a press statement yesterday. The settlements are expected to reduce harmful emissions by 7,000 tons per year.
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