A special set of panels on improving working conditions in global supply chains will be held on Tuesday, June 2nd in Toronto, Canada, as part of the annual American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exhibition.
In a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis written March 9, American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) President Lindsay E. Booher, CIH, CSP, detailed “three very important issues” for priority attention as the Department of Labor develops its policies and positions for occupational safety and health.
Hundreds of national, state, and local groups and individual signers have called on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to reverse a 2006 Environmental Protection Agency rule that limits public access to information about toxic chemical releases. The rule, finalized in December 2006, allows industries to withhold information on the quantities and locations of toxic chemical releases previously reported to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), according to a press released issued by OMB Watch and U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Groups).
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, gave a speech on the Senate floor yesterday citing recent Gallup Poll results showing a “record-high 41 percent of Americans now say [global warming] is exaggerated!” This is the “highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting” in more than a decade, according to the March 11, 2009, Gallup survey,” said Inhofe.
Holy House Shipping AB, a Swedish corporation, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden, N.J., to pay a $1 million fine, a special assessment of $400,000 in community service payments and serve three years of probation for failing to maintain an accurate oil record book in an attempt to conceal illegal discharges of oil-contaminated waste directly into the ocean from one of its ships, the Justice Department announced.
OSHA has proposed $66,500 in penalties against Florida Crystals Corp.'s South Bay, Fla., production facility after uncovering 15 alleged violations of OSHA standards, according to an agency news release.
OSHA is citing Southern Certified, a roofing contractor based in Pompano Beach, Fla., for nine alleged safety violations following the death of an employee who fell about 30 feet while working on a roof without fall protection, according to an agency news release.
ACGIH® has announced its 2009 awards recipients, to be honored at the American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exposition (AIHce), May 30-June 4, 2009, in Toronto, Canada.
The issue of the public’s possible exposure to asbestos on an Illinois State beach and alleged oversight by the Department of Health and Human Services’ Agency for Toxic Substances and Disease Registry (ATSDR) will be the focus of Jeffery C. Camplin’s, Certified Safety Professional (CSP), and Certified Professional Environmental Auditor (CPEA), of IL, testimony today before the House Committee on Science and Technology’s Investigations and Oversight Subcommittee about alleged problems and mistakes made by ATSDR. Camplin noted ATSDR’s alleged failure to properly identify and communicate the threat of asbestos at Illinois Beach State Park in Waukegan, IL, has exposed millions to possible illness.
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