GE challenges Hudson River report on PCBs
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General Electric Corporation (GE) has disputed a recent EPA report regarding Hudson River muds that are contaminated with polychlorinated biphenyls (PCBs). Complaining that the EPA's Low-Resolution Sediment Coring Report includes serious flaws that invalidate its conclusions, GE seeks to have independent experts perform an expedited review of the report, which claims that the muds pose a greater threat to the environment than previously estimated. The report compares data from core samples taken from the Thompson Island Pool in the upper Hudson River in 1994, with data from core samples taken between 1976, and 1984. Aside from taking too few samples and failing to study them meticulously, GE claims that the EPA compared results from two different and incompatible sampling techniques.
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Has disputed a recent EPA report regarding Hudson River muds that are contaminated
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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Redesigned laundry products reduce pollution
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The Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics' Design for the Environment program has acknowledged the initiatives of Andreson Chemical to create less-polluting products, consistent with the voluntary EPA program instituted in 1992. An institutional laundry detergent manufacturer based in Litchfield, MN, Anderson Chemical formulated redesigned products, including bleaches, detergents and fabric softeners, that have a pH-neutral wash chemistry and an alternative active ingredient, such as oxygen instead of chlorine in the case of bleach. Anderson Chemical R&D manager Marlene Williams notes that the firm's products use 33% less water, owing to a special process that does not require extra rinses, and thus produces 33% less effluent that is also less toxic and more biodegradable.
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Cited by EPA's Office of Pollution Prevention & Toxics' Design for the Environment for efforts to create less-polluting prods
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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First nationwide EMS required in legal settlement
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A companywide environmental management system (EMS) will be developed by New York-based mining and smelting firm ASARCO Inc., based on the environmental management protocols contained in the ISO 14000 international environmental management standards. The initiative is part of a $56-million legal agreement arrived with the EPA to settle supposed violations of clean water and hazardous waste regulations, concluding a two-year investigation into company facilities in Montana and Arizona. Among the objectives of the program is to foster a cultural change at the firm, which reiles on the institution of training sessioons in environmental compliance for ASARCO's 6,000 employees at its 38 US facilities.
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Will dvlp companywide environmental management system based ISO 14000 standard, as part of settlement agreement w/ EPA
Publication Name: Environmental Science & Technology
Subject: Science and technology
ISSN: 0013-936X
Year: 1998
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