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Items Tagged with 'environmental protection'

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Sustainability and environmental impact
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What does sustainability mean to you?

Innovative solutions are developing as PPE manufacturers consider their environmental impact
Benita Mehta
Benita Mehta
September 20, 2023

Sustainability is becoming an important point of discussion in the environmental health and safety space.


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EHS software

Don’t get bogged down in complex EHS software

Keep it simple
Glenn Trout
April 1, 2020
The larger your workforce, the harder it is to keep everyone on the same page and ensure the health and safety of your employees. That’s why so many companies today turn to EHS software to centralize and standardize the management of their people and critical EHS tasks.
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BP selling all of its Alaska operations

October 4, 2019
One of Alaska's biggest oil producers—BP—has announced it is selling all of its Alaska operations to Hilcorp, a privately-owned company with a troubled safety and environmental track-record. The $5.6 billion sale includes BP's stakes in the Trans Alaska Pipeline and the Prudhoe Bay oil field, one of the nation's largest and once its most productive oil field, which BP currently operates.
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Plastics are ruining the environment

How can we help stop this?
Chris Jacobsen
August 22, 2018
Single use plastics are the hot topic of the moment – and with good reason. They’re non-biodegradable meaning once created they will never disappear from the environment. When consumers open the bin to drop their plastic waste in that may be the last they see of it but it’s far from the end of the story.
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oil spill

Settlement with giant oil processor to help prevent, prepare for accidental spills

August 21, 2018
The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Region 7 have entered into a consent decree with Ag Processing, Inc. (AGP) to ensure compliance with oil pollution prevention requirements of the Clean Water Act (CWA). As part of the settlement, the company has agreed to implement specific preventative measures to ensure future compliance and improve accidental spill response.
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A Confined Space blog post

Kavanaugh: Threat to workers and to OSHA

Jordan Barab
Jordan Barab
July 11, 2018
While most of the discussion of President Trump’s nomination of Brett Kavanaugh to the Supreme Court focuses on the possibility that he will be the deciding vote to repeal Rowe v. Wade or that the will bend over backwards to help Trump out of the Russia investigation, there is clear evidence that Kavanaugh is overly friendly to corporate America, and hostile to workplace safety, the Occupational Safety and Health Act and the environment.
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Confined Space blog
A Confined Space blog post

Scott Pruitt: RIP

July 6, 2018
"MARLEY was dead: to begin with. There is no doubt whatever about that. The register of his burial was signed by the clergyman, the clerk, the undertaker, and the chief mourner. Scrooge signed it: and Scrooge’s name was good upon ‘Change, for anything he chose to put his hand to."
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World Environment Day to focus on plastic pollution

June 5, 2018

Coming just a week after a whale died near Thailand and was found to have 17 pounds of plastic in its stomach, this year’s World Environment Day - today - has a timely theme: “Beat Plastic Pollution.” Begun by the United Nations (UN) in 1974 as way to raise awareness of the need to protect the environment, World Environment Day has grown to become a global platform for public outreach that is observed in more than 100 countries.


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Manager fired for reporting e-cigarette environmental concerns will get $110K

April 23, 2018
E-cigarettes are at the heart of a recent whistleblower retaliation case, but this time, the devices’ effects on environmental health rather than human health was at issue. OSHA has ordered Mr. Good Vape LLC of Chino, California, to reinstate a former manager and pay him $110,000 in compensation after he was fired for claiming the company’s production of flavored liquids for e-cigarette vapor inhalers violated federal environmental law.
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A Confined Space blog post

Written in blood: Trump appointee reverses lessons of Deepwater Horizon

Jordan Barab
Jordan Barab
March 15, 2018
They say that those who forget history are forced to repeat it. But when it comes to workplace and environmental disasters, that’s not exactly true. Because while the politicians and their corporate supporters are doing the forgetting, it is the workers, the environment and surrounding communities that ultimately pay the price when the inevitable — and preventable — tragedies come home to roost.
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