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Seth
Mar 16, 20111 min read
This is a test post for our new URL Shortener
Thanks to the folks over at Goldstein Media LLC, we are now the proud owners of our very own branded URL shortener: EES.BZ.
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Heather Cummings
Mar 15, 20112 min read
New EPA Boiler MACT Rules
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) released new Clean Air Act rules last month. The Boiler Maximum Achievable Control...
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Heather Cummings
Mar 11, 20111 min read
OSHA Cites the Stars
Many Americans feel celebrities in our society receive a free pass, and can break the law without repercussions. The Occupational,...
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Heather Cummings
Mar 8, 20111 min read
OSHA Takes Steps to Protect Immigrant Workers
In early December the assistant secretary of OSHA, David Michaels, and the secretary of labor, Hilda Solis, met with ambassadors from...
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Heather Cummings
Mar 4, 20111 min read
EPA Orders Proper E-Waste Disposal
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has ordered Metro Metals Corporation and Avista Recycling, Inc., to properly dispose of...
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Heather Cummings
Mar 1, 20111 min read
CARE Makes Green Decisions Easier
EES recently shared a post regarding health care sustainability. It focused on the importance of making environmentally conscious and...
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Tom Petersen
Feb 25, 20114 min read
Maximize Boiler Efficiency Now
This interesting new technology is from one of the equipment vendors we interact with. EES does not endorse this system and has no...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 22, 20111 min read
Hospital OSHA Compliance
The Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has hundreds of general and specific industry regulations, and many employers...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 18, 20112 min read
PECO Smart Equipment Incentives for Health Care Facilities
Last week PECO hosted an event based on their Smart Equipment Incentives program. The luncheon specifically targeted health...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 15, 20111 min read
Congress Continues to Resist the EPA Carbon Regulations
Last week EPA administrator Lisa Jackson testified in front of the House Subcommittee on Energy and Power. In the testimony Jackson...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 11, 20111 min read
The EPA’s Pharmaceutical Disposal Position
In early September the EPA released a draft for Best Management Practices for Unused Pharmaceuticals at Health Care Facilities. The...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 7, 20112 min read
President Obama on “Winning the Future”
President Obama spoke at Penn State, University Park last week. The president focused on energy innovation, and the implications of such...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 4, 20111 min read
Goodbye Plastic Waste
A significant amount of household plastic ends up in landfills each year. This is due in part to our own laziness, but also due to the...
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Heather Cummings
Feb 1, 20111 min read
OSHA Reminds Employers and Workers of Snow Removal Risks
This winter season seems to be hitting us left and right with snowstorms! With the accumulation levels and frequency increasing it is...
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Heather Cummings
Jan 28, 20111 min read
OSHA Withdraws Noise Interpretation
Last week OSHA abruptly announced the withdrawal of their proposed interpretation on occupational noise. The purpose of the...
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Heather Cummings
Jan 25, 20111 min read
Sustainability in Health Care
Last Friday our president, Tom Petersen, presented a speech regarding sustainability in health care to more than twenty Hospital Fire...
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Heather Cummings
Jan 21, 20111 min read
Lone Star State Continues to Resist EPA
Once again the state of Texas is making headlines for their opposition to EPA regulations. In October EES brought you a post about...
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Heather Cummings
Jan 18, 20111 min read
OSHA After 40 Years
Late in 1970 President Richard M. Nixon signed the Occupational Safety & Health (OSH) Act into law. In the four decades since the OSH...
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Heather Cummings
Jan 14, 20111 min read
Federal Government to Pioneer E-Waste Reduction
President Barack Obama recently announced a cross-agency task force to combat electronic waste (e-waste). TheCouncil on Environmental...
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Heather Cummings
Jan 11, 20111 min read
OSHA Announces Five New Rules for 2011
In an online dialogue last week the Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) announced five new policies on their agenda for...
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EES has been providing environmental health & safety consulting and engineering services for more than 25 years, serving healthcare, manufacturing, pharmaceutical, aerospace and higher education organizations across the United States and Canada.
President and Engineer Tom Petersen, P.E. has more than 36 years of environmental engineering, health & safety and process safety experience.
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