Last week, Buildings Commissioner Robert LiMandri released the findings of the year-long investigation into the tower crane collapse that occurred on March 15, 2008, at 303 East 51st St. in Manhattan, according to a press release. The investigation concluded that improper rigging operations caused an 11,000-pound steel collar to fall while it was being connected to the building under construction.
The National Fire Protection Association (NFPA) has named Montgomery County Fire and Rescue Service of Maryland as the winner of the 2009 Rolf H. Jensen Memorial Public Education Grant, according to an NFPA press release. The $5,000 award will support the fire and rescue service’s training program to provide outreach on fire safety for adults over the age of 65.
Because minor water leaks account for more than 1 trillion gallons of water wasted each year in U.S. homes, EPA is launching its first “Fix a Leak Week” to remind Americans of the environmental and economic benefits to fixing leaks from household plumbing fixtures and irrigation systems.
A special set of panels on improving working conditions in global supply chains will be held on Tuesday, June 2nd in Toronto, Canada, as part of the annual American Industrial Hygiene Conference & Exhibition.
In a letter to Labor Secretary Hilda Solis written March 9, American Industrial Hygiene Association (AIHA) President Lindsay E. Booher, CIH, CSP, detailed “three very important issues” for priority attention as the Department of Labor develops its policies and positions for occupational safety and health.
Hundreds of national, state, and local groups and individual signers have called on EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to reverse a 2006 Environmental Protection Agency rule that limits public access to information about toxic chemical releases. The rule, finalized in December 2006, allows industries to withhold information on the quantities and locations of toxic chemical releases previously reported to the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI), according to a press released issued by OMB Watch and U.S. PIRG (Public Interest Research Groups).
Senator James Inhofe (R-OK), ranking member of the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee, gave a speech on the Senate floor yesterday citing recent Gallup Poll results showing a “record-high 41 percent of Americans now say [global warming] is exaggerated!” This is the “highest level of public skepticism about mainstream reporting” in more than a decade, according to the March 11, 2009, Gallup survey,” said Inhofe.
Holy House Shipping AB, a Swedish corporation, was sentenced in U.S. District Court in Camden, N.J., to pay a $1 million fine, a special assessment of $400,000 in community service payments and serve three years of probation for failing to maintain an accurate oil record book in an attempt to conceal illegal discharges of oil-contaminated waste directly into the ocean from one of its ships, the Justice Department announced.
OSHA has proposed $66,500 in penalties against Florida Crystals Corp.'s South Bay, Fla., production facility after uncovering 15 alleged violations of OSHA standards, according to an agency news release.
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