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In recovery: Oregonians set new standards for recycling
2015-01-21 18:03:17| Waste Management - Topix.net
Resource Recycling reports that nearly 54 percent of materials discarded by households and businesses were recovered in 2013. That's the highest recovery rate since Oregon began tracking such info in 1992.
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Ductless Fume Hoods exceed OSHA and ANSI standards.
2015-01-21 14:30:57| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Available in 3 models with choice of 24, 36, or 48 in. widths, Purair 5 Fume Hoods feature ductless design that enables them to be positioned over sink or benchtop apparatus. Face velocity of 100 fpm ensures containment of fumes and particulates for operator protection, while alarm alerts operator when airflow falls to unacceptable level. Main filter can be chosen from 14 different types of carbon, which include specialty media for vapors of organics, solvents, acids, mercury, and formaldehyde.
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Three Shell Oil Company Affiliates Settle With EPA Over Violations Of Vehicle Fuel Standards
2015-01-21 05:38:59| oilandgasonline Home Page
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) recently announced a settlement with three companies affiliated with Shell Oil Company to resolve Clean Air Act violations, including selling gasoline and diesel fuel that did not conform to federal standards.
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Proposed Standards to highlight uses of activated carbon.
2015-01-19 14:30:48| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Proposed standard, WK47401, Test Method for Xylenol Orange Dye Test, describes relative adsorption rate of unused or reactivated carbons by adsorption of xylenol orange from aqueous solution. Standard will cover activated carbons that are used for treatment of drinking water as well as those used to produce consumer products or treat wastewater. Proposed standard WK47421 will describe how laser light scattering technique can determine particle size distribution of fine mesh activated carbon.
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Are the US drinking water standards outdated?
2015-01-17 16:02:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Environmental News Network: Changes in drinking water quality in the 21st Century are coming from a myriad of circumstances, and not all are for the best. Top contenders for why water-drinking quality might become suspect to the average consumer include California's drought conditions, the technology of fracking, and the nationwide aging infrastructure of rusty, degrading pipes. Citing these and other relatively recent scenarios, Andrea Dietrich, professor of civil and environmental engineering at Virginia Tech, and her...
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