President-elect Barack Obama announced on Monday key members of his energy and environment team, including Dr. Steven Chu, Secretary of Energy; Lisa Jackson, Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Administrator; Nancy Sutley, Chair of the White House Council on Environmental Quality (CEQ); Carol Browner, Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change; and Heather Zichal, Deputy Assistant to the President for Energy and Climate Change, according to a press release from Obama’s Transition Team.
EPA announced a final rule providing an administrative reporting exemption for air releases of hazardous substances from animal waste at farms, according to an agency press statement.
A new Regional Emphasis Program (REP) is underway in OSHA's New England Region to minimize employee exposures to crystalline silica hazards associated with commercial and residential construction, according to an OSHA press statement.
OSHA’s final rule on Clarification of Employers’ Duty to Provide Personal Protective Equipment and Train Each Employee was published Friday’s Federal Register, according to an agency press statement.
Employers and employees in the electrical industry will benefit from a fact sheet and slide presentation on OSHA’s Electrical Standard Subpart S (29 CFR 1910) developed by the Independent Electrical Contractors, Inc. (IEC) through a recently renewed alliance between OSHA and IEC, according to a recent OSHA press release.
The Nature Conservancy and Journal Publications Inc. are accepting nominations for the inaugural Investing in Nature Awards, according to a recent press release.
NSF International Strategic Registrations (NSF-ISR), a North American leader in management systems registrations, has obtained Greenhouse Gas (GHG) accreditation from the American National Standards Institute (ANSI), according to an NSF-ISR press statement.
President-elect Barack Obama yesterday officially nominated former Senator Tom Daschle as Secretary of Health and Human Services and named him the Director of a new White House Office on Health Care Reform, according to an Obama Tranisition Team press release.
Energy Star leaders continue to make a dent across the country, in big cities and small towns, according to an EPA press release. They are avoiding more than 580 million pounds of greenhouse gas emissions — equal to those from the electricity use of nearly 35,000 U.S. homes — and saving almost $50 million annually.
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