August Mack Environmental, Inc. is a full-service environmental consulting firm specializing in environmental, health and safety; environmental due diligence; closure, investigation and remediation; and sustainability services to the industrial, legal, financial, government and health care sectors throughout North America. On this blog, August Mack's team of experts will share their insights and experience on various EH&S topics. Check back for frequent updates!August Mack Environmental, Inc. is a full-service environmental consulting firm specializing in environmental, health and safety; environmental due diligence; closure, investigation and remediation; and sustainability services to the industrial, legal, financial, government and health care sectors throughout North America. On this blog, August Mack's team of experts will share their insights and experience on various EH&S topics. Check back for frequent updates!On August 21, 1999, arsonists set
fire to an estimated seven million tires at the Kirby Scrap Tire
Facility located in Sycamore, Ohio. This would later be classified
as one of the largest tire fires in the state’s history and would
take approximately 250 firefighters three weeks to
extinguish.
The former tire collection facility is situated on 140 acres located in Sycamore, Ohio. The scrap tire facility started collecting tires in the 1950s and, at the time of the fire, contained an estimated...
Read More »When thinking about subsurface
investigations related to environmental issues, you may wonder how
much investigation is appropriate?
Click here to read an interesting article from one of
August Mack's experts on this subject.
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EH&S issues. Go to the upper right side of this blog and
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House Enrollment Act (HEA) 1162
requires the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM)
to consider risk-based solutions to environmental impacts. An
important part of risk-based thinking is the use of "multiple lines
of evidence". This webinar will summarize risk-based closure
thinking and explain how "lines of evidence" are used in the
process of obtaining environmental closure. You will learn what
specific "lines of evidence" are most helpful and why.
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Read More »This webinar will familiarize
attendees with Ohio's UST governing agency, define common
nomenclature used and detail all responsibilities required to
complete a legal closure. We will also provide information on what
options are available for closures with contamination above
applicable action levels, future investigation requirements as well
as the necessary steps to obtain a "No Further Action" letter from
the state.
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Register here to learn about the
components required in an Energy Control Program (Lockout/Tagout).
Having a properly prepared program is the first step in protecting
your employees. This is followed by training, implementing and
review the program to ensure it is working.
All of August Mack Environmental's webinars are presented by
Environmental Compliance
Specialists.
The buildings we spend the
majority of the day in play an important role in our daily lives.
The primary purpose of a building is to protect people from the
elements and to support human activity. Buildings should not make
people sick, cause them discomfort or otherwise inhibit their
ability to perform. If environmental exposures are not well
managed. costly remediation and/or potential liability as a result
of ensuing environmental issues can occur. In addition, with
ever-changing regulations,...
Read More »The Indiana Department of
Environmental Management (IDEM) issues air permits to regulate
facilities based on their potential to emit of criteria and
hazardous air pollutants. In this presentation, we will identify
what is considered to be a criteria and a hazardous air pollutant;
determine how to calculate your potential to emit; discuss the
differences between types of air permits issued by IDEM as well as
highlight some of the typical air permit compliance
requirements.
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What is universal waste? This
informative webinar explains what it is and how to properly manage
it. This often overlooked or neglected area of waste management can
lead to regulatory violations if not properly managed. Make sure
your facility is doing the right thing.
Register here to listen to this recorded webinar presented by an Environmental Compliance Consultant.
Register here to listen to this recorded webinar presented by an Environmental Compliance Consultant.
Are you one of the 15,000
facilities OSHA has on its radar? What should you do if you are on
the list? What should you really want to know is how to lower the
chances of being on one of these lists in the future.
Register here for this informative webinar to learn more about Environmental Compliance Requirements.
Register here for this informative webinar to learn more about Environmental Compliance Requirements.
For the 12-month period ending
March 21, 2010, 1,531,997 bankruptcies were filed. Of those, 61,148
were business filings - a 27.4 percent increase in the number of
filings! With the growing number of bankruptcies the likelihood of
a company or individual simply "walking away" from an unwanted
property increases significantly. Sometimes abandoning not only the
physical assets and land, but also abandoning a wealth of potential
environmental contamination problems and/or waste.
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The NESHAP for Industrial,
Commercial and Institutional Boilers and Process Heaters, 40 CFR
Part 63, Subpart DDDDD (the "Boiler MACT") was vacated in June
2007. This web seminar will provide updated information on the
status of EPAs development of a revised Boiler MACT. Information
will be provided on new requirements, compliance dates, submittal
requirements and deadlines. In addition, information regarding the
development of any source- specific MACT standards by state
regulatory agencies will...
Read More »House Enrollment Act (HEA) 1162 requires the Indiana Department of Environmental Management (IDEM) to consider risk-based solutions while evaluating environmental closures. Risk-based closures can include several approaches for example:
- Applying pre-approved closure levels
- Determining site-specific closure levels
- Considering risk of exposure
For more information on achieving
environmental closure,
click here to read an article written by one of the
environmental remediation specialists at August...
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The wanted list contains the names,
vital statistics, mug shots and violations of 21 people on the run
from justice for allegedly participating in environmental crimes.
The crimes range from smuggling banned pollutants to illegally
dumping hazardous waste. Examples of violations are listed
below:
- Illegally importing R-12 Freon (Currently R-12 is on the ozone depleting list and requires special permits)
- Illegally discharging hazardous substances into navigable waters of the U.S.
- Illegally dumping...
MACT stands for Maximum Achievable Control Technology. You might be thinking you do not know much more now than when you thought MACT was just some four-lettered acronym that did not apply to you. The Clean Air Act Amendments (CAAAs) of 1994 are responsible for the MACT acronym. As part of the 1994 CAAAs, National Emission Standards for Hazardous Air Pollutants (NESHAPs) were required to be established for approximately one hundred and 188 hazardous air pollutants (HAPs). The basis for these...
Read More »According to the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA), there are approximately 30,000 industrial facilities in the United States at risk for dust explosions due to the materials they utilize and the processes they operate. OSHA states there have been in excess of 350 dust explosions resulting in more than 100 fatalities and numerous injuries since 1980. There were 15 fatalities in 2003 alone including the dust explosion at Hayes Lemmerz, a plastic dust explosion at a...
Read More »On November 25, 2009, the
Administrative Office of the U.S. Courts reported bankruptcy cases
filed in federal courts for fiscal year 2009 totaled 1,402,816, up
34.5 percent over the 1,042,993 filings reported for the 12-month
period ending September 30, 2008.
For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2010, 1,531,997 bankruptcies were filed; 61,148 of those were business filings – a 27.4 percent increase in the number of filings!
To learn more about bankruptcy and environmental cleanup, click here...
Read More »For the 12-month period ending March 31, 2010, 1,531,997 bankruptcies were filed; 61,148 of those were business filings – a 27.4 percent increase in the number of filings!
To learn more about bankruptcy and environmental cleanup, click here...
It is an employer’s responsibility
to provide a safe work environment for his/her employees. As such,
one of the areas of great safety risk to employees concerns
hazardous energy. Subsequently, a well developed and effective
program to control hazardous energy through a lockout/tagout (LOTO)
program is of utmost importance. Occupational Safety and Health
Administration (OSHA) has promulgated rules with regards to this
area in 29 CFR 1910.147.
The purpose of a LOTO program is to ensure before an...
Read More »The purpose of a LOTO program is to ensure before an...
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