The former Cemex cement plant in Ohio is slated to become the expected site of Calamityville, Wright State University’s disaster response training center. Extensive environmental remediation, but, must be completed before the university can see its plan through to fruition. Asbestos as well as an organic industrial solvent called trichloroethene (TCE) are among the hazardous [...]
The National Institute for Occupational Safety as well as Health (NIOSH) has recently released a revised current intelligence bulletin for asbestos fibers as well as other elongate materials. In this bulletin, NIOSH explains the research it still wants to do as well as clarifies the recommended exposure limit (REL) for airborne asbestos fibers from 1990.
The [...]
Gerald A. Martin Ltd. of Albuquerque, Recent Mexico served as the common contractor during the 2007 demolition of a school dormitory of the Bureau of Indian Affairs in Holbrook, Arizona. The contractor has agreed to pay $225,000 in penalties assigned by the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ) as well as Arizona Attorney General’s Office [...]
Ocala City Council in Florida had been forced to meet outside of City Hall after mold was discovered in September 2009. Sunrise Environmental was hired to remediate the mold as well as asbestos from the building. Recent carpeting as well as a recent ceiling were installed, along with a recent air handler as well as [...]
The former Cambria Air Force Station in California became the center of an illegal asbestos removal investigation. Property owner Bernd Schaefers has been charged with two misdemeanor counts involving coastal zone land take law, as well as property manager Luther Sherman Akers has been accused of felony illegal asbestos disposal as well as two misdemeanor [...]
Southern Alamance High School in North Carolina recently completed asbestos removal in the band room. A ceiling leak discovered in January necessitated the removal as well as replacement of ceiling tiles in the band room. After the ceiling tiles were replaced, there were still complaints about an odor in the room, which resulted in the [...]
Landfills as well as brownfields may soon become combined take developmental areas that include wind, solar as well as other renewable energy power projects. An engineering firm in the UK, Waste Recycling Group, wants to invest £100 million to install wind turbines at landfill sites throughout England, Scotland as well as Wales. The U.S. Environmental [...]
Robert Knapp is a developer who was involved in the illegal removal of asbestos from the landmark Equitable Building in Iowa back in 2007, as well as Russell William Coco was his project supervisor. Both men now face 11 counts of violating the federal Uncluttered Air Act.
The Iowa Department of Common Resources (DNR) began their [...]
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) awarded a total of $41.5 million to improve existing hospital wards at Audie L. Murphy VA Health examination Center as well as to build a polytrauma center to take care of Iraq veterans as well as Afghanistan veterans who were injured by roadside bombs as well as other explosive [...]
The USS Olympia served the U.S. Navy during the Spanish-American War. It has been docked at the Independence Seaport Museum in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania since the museum took ownership 15 years ago. The ship has been in the water continuously since 1945, but ships need to undergo maintenance in moistureless dock every 20 years to keep [...]
