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Stumped by the Code? Identifying a Class I Hazardous (Classified) Location

2014-01-16 23:42:13| Electrical Construction & Maintenance

By Mike Holt, NEC Consultant Q. What is a Class I hazardous (classified) location? read more

Smog shrouds Beijing with hazardous pollution levels video

2014-01-16 10:58:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

Reuters: Heavy smog shrouds Beijing on Thursday as pollution in the Chinese capital reaches hazardous levels. An index measuring pollution levels showed the PM2.5, particulate matter with a diameter of 2.5 micrometers, reached 500. A level above 300 is considered hazardous, while the World Health Organisation recommends a daily level of no more than 20

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EPA Takes Important Step in Implementing the Hazardous Waste Electronic Manifest Establishment ...

2014-01-16 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today

EPA issued final rule that is a crucial step in the development of a national electronic manifest system, which will upgrade paper-based system of tracking hazardous waste to an electronic one. Rule authorizes use of e-Manifests to track hazardous wastes under Resource Conservation and Recovery Act. Once implemented, national e-Manifest system will provide greater access for emergency responders to information about types and sources of hazardous waste that are in transit. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:

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EU Moves to Ban Hazardous Plastics By 2020

2014-01-15 18:55:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed

EcoWatch: The most hazardous plastics and certain plastic bags should be banned by 2020, as part of an EU strategy to reduce plastic waste in the environment, says the European Parliament in a resolution voted yesterday. The EU should also introduce binding plastic waste recycling targets, Members of European Parliament (MEPs) add. The resolution, a call for action further to a European Commission green paper, was passed by a show of hands. In it, MEPs stress that plastic waste is damaging the environment...

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