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The
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The US EPA has promulgated a final rule changing
the Spill Prevention, Control and Countermeasure (SPCC) plan
requirements. This is an oil pollution prevention rule under the Clean
Water Act. It establishes procedures, methods,..... |
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Every company has an environmental management
system (
EMS
) at some level. At
what level is your company performing? Does it make good business sense
to improve and upgrade your
EMS
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The
program, offered by the Kalamazoo County’s Business Environmental
Education & Assistance Program provides a confidential review of a
facility’s operations in terms of groundwater protection/pollution
prevention strategies.
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Survey Says... |
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A survey was conducted to
obtain an industry overview of current recordkeeping systems, the
interest in improvement, and the value of having a system that has been
proven to work. As an overall summary of the survey, when the industry
was asked how to provide proof of environmental compliance, survey says,….."Recordkeeping"! |
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Contingency
Planning. Does it make sense? |
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Your company has a
contingency plan in case a computer hard drive crashes.
Your company understands that hard drives crash.
Does the government require you to have this plan?
Does your company have
comparable contingency plans for environmental and safety incidents?
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Does New
Source Review Contribute to Dirty Air? |
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How should regulators
use their discretion to interpret BACT? Should they add cost and reduce
the viability of new technology, or should they interpret the
regulations to fully take into account the impact of added control?
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