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Items Tagged with 'mercury'

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No protection for workers dealing with mercury

August 3, 2016
A Schenectady hazardous materials remediation contractor exposed its employees to mercury poisoning and did not provide proper safeguards to workers doing mercury removal work at the General Electric Co. Power and Water Main Plant State Superfund site in Schenectady, an OSHA investigation has found.
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 MERCURY VAPOR DETECTION

Mercury vapor detection by Arizona Instrument

March 1, 2016
Increase mercury vapor detection range by 10X. New vapor dilution module extends detection range of the Jerome J505 from nanograms to milligrams.
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Public health

Mercury levels in U.S. women of childbearing age way down

Fewer in danger zone than in the past
November 25, 2013

Blood mercury levels in women of childbearing age have dropped 34 percent in the past 14 years, according to a survey by the EPA. Additionally, the percentage of women of childbearing age with blood mercury levels above the level of concern decreased 65 percent from the 1999-2000 survey and follow-up surveys from 2001-2010.


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Majority of U.S. streams, rivers in poor condition

EPA survey yields troubling data
March 27, 2013

More than half of the nation’s waterways are polluted with toxins like mercury and have been stripped of vegetation that protects them, according to a stark new report from the EPA. The first comprehensive survey looking the health of thousands of stream and river miles across the country found that 55 percent are in poor condition for aquatic life.


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3 million acres of water free from mercury by Air Cycle Corporation customers

March 27, 2013

Air Cycle Corporation is very pleased to announce that as of March, 2013 our customers have kept over 3 million acres of water free from mercury contamination through their waste recycling efforts.


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OSHA issues info on protecting workers from mercury exposure in fluorescent bulbs

August 2, 2012

OSHA has issued two new educational resources to help protect workers from mercury exposure while crushing and recycling fluorescent bulbs.


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air pollution

Health advocates join forces to defend EPA pollution standard

April 5, 2012

The American College of Occupational and Environmental Medicine (ACOEM) has joined the American Heart Association, the American Lung Association, and other leading organizations to formally oppose S.J. Res. 37, a resolution by Senator James Inhofe (R-Okla) that employs the Congressional Review Act to reverse the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) Mercury and Air Toxics Standards for Power Plants.


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Health, environmental groups back EPA over MACT

March 21, 2012

The Environmental Protection may get some help from environmental and public health groups as it contends with legal challenges to its final Utility Maximum Achievable Control Technology (MACT) rule.


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mercury

Twenty years in the making: EPA finally publishes mercury standard

January 24, 2012

On Dec. 21, EPA issued the Mercury and Air Toxics Standards, the first national standards to protect American families from power plant emissions of mercury and toxic air pollution such as arsenic, acid gas, nickel, selenium, and cyanide.


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Public health experts back standards for coal-burning plants

December 27, 2011

The American Public Health Association is endorsing the new standards released recently by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency that would strengthen safeguards against toxic pollutants, including mercury, emitted from coal-burning power plants for the first time.


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