From: Earth & Water Group August e-newsletter
As part of the Obama administration’s efforts to address climate change, the White House Council on Environmental Quality published its final guidance on how federal agencies should incorporate the effects of climate change into their environmental reviews conducted under the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA).
Under NEPA, federal …
Federal Register, 15 August 2016
The National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention announces a public web meeting and an opportunity to comment on future directions for the NIOSH Center for Motor Vehicle Safety.
To view the notice and related materials, visit http://www.regulations.gov and enter CDC–2016–0067 …
A two-day event in Bend will offer employers and workers a full menu of opportunities to sharpen their skills at creating and maintaining safe and healthy workplaces. Those opportunities include topics on everything from reinvigorating safety committees and safely handling chemicals to understanding updated rules for firefighters and learning how to be a safer driver.…
OSHA, 13 June 2016
The Department of Labor is challenging inventors and entrepreneurs to help develop a technological solution to workplace noise exposure and related hearing loss.
The DOL’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration and Mine Safety and Health Administration, in partnership with the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health, have launched the ‘Hear …
Law.com, 4 August 2016
Filers of ‘fat’ briefs be warned. Ninth Circuit Judge Alex Kozinski has let his disdain for oversized court filings be known. In a short-but-effective dissent from an order granting the California Attorney General’s Office permission to file an oversized brief, Kozinski wrote Thursday that it’s become a ‘common and rather …
STP, 2 August 2016
Late in the 1970s, measurements in the stratosphere revealed that levels of ozone were falling – the headline summary of this trend was the annual appearance of a thinned-out ‘ozone hole’ over the Arctic and Antarctic regions. Health and environmental and human health scientists worried because stratospheric ozone is an …
Summary of selected portions of article series by Alison Young and Mark Nichols, “Lead in Your Water,” USA Today, March, 2016
A USA Today Network investigation examining EPA enforcement data has identified almost 2,000 water systems where testing has shown lead contamination levels exceeding the EPA action level of 15 parts per billion (ppb). …
19 August 2016, 12pm-2pm
Occupational Health is often referred to as a multi-disciplinary approach to developing and ensuring compliance with safe working practices, and maintaining the health and well-being of those employed in a particular occupation or workplace. This live webinar will focus on the latest in occupational health information and will include a wide …
EPA, 25 July 2016
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today finalized a determination under the Clean Air Act that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from certain types of aircraft engines contribute to the pollution that causes climate change and endangers Americans’ health and the environment. The findings are for carbon dioxide (CO2), methane, …
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