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If It's Broke, Fix It
EPA announces new lead standards for renovation of older buildings |
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31 Mar 2008 |
News |
| Posted at 3:04 PM on 31 Mar 2008 Contractors will have to train workers to follow "lead-safe work practice standards" when renovating or repairing older dwellings that house children or pregnant women, according to new standards introduced Monday by the U.S. EPA. The new requirements are an attempt to keep lead out of the bloodstreams of babes, as structures built before 1978 are likely to contain ... |
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| Topics: green building, green living, health, news, placemaking, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Sixty-Two and You
U.S. EPA places limits on carcinogenic benzene in gasoline |
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12 Feb 2007 |
Daily Grist |
| Sixty-Two and You U.S. EPA places limits on carcinogenic benzene in gasoline Late last week, the U.S. EPA announced a new rule that will affect most Americans' gas tanks. The Mobile Source Air Toxics rule -- or as we like to call it, the Your Car is Full of Crap rule -- limits benzene, a carcinogen that makes up about 1 percent of current gasoline mixes but poses a whopping health threat. Beginning in 2011, refiners will ... |
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| Topics: news, placemaking, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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Switch Getters
Industries pull the switch on mercury switches |
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14 Aug 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Switch Getters Industries pull the switch on mercury switches The steel and auto industries have agreed to pay $2 million each to remove mercury-containing light switches from millions of scrapyard-bound vehicles. The deal will reduce U.S. annual mercury pollution by at least 5 percent over the next 15 years, according to U.S. EPA chief Stephen Johnson. Bully for the U.S., but a wash for the planet: the mercury will be r ... |
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Benzene There, Might Do That
New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030 |
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02 Mar 2006 |
Daily Grist |
| Benzene There, Might Do That New EPA regs would slash benzene emissions from cars by 2030 The Bush administration delighted enviros yesterday (yes, we just wrote that) by unveiling long-awaited proposals to cut toxic tailpipe emissions. Of course, it took a lawsuit to get the plan released, but why look a gift regulation in the mouth? According to the U.S. EPA, the proposed rules would cut benzene e ... |
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| Topics: news, placemaking, pollution and waste, toxics, US EPA (all these topics) |
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