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Food fears triggers new safety scheme 6 Jan 2009 09:30 GMT
... the scheme is to target businesses that have not improved following routine inspections by environmental health officers. Councillor David Collins, in charge of environmental health in the Havant borough, and ...
No limit on nickel emissions 6 Jan 2009 08:52 GMT
... resident's health and the environment. “Mr Barnett appears to be blind to the increasing environmental health disasters in WA that have been so tragic and costly to WA citizens, requiring ...
Coal ash -- a Tennessee wake-up call 6 Jan 2009 08:30 GMT
... Coal ash -- a Tennessee wake-up call A spill at a Tennessee power plant demonstrates another danger in burning ...
Environmental Groups Point Way to Mercury Reduction 6 Jan 2009 05:36 GMT
... US, EPA's failure to pass a mercury control rule that safeguards both human and environmental health is perhaps the most damning example of an agency blind to its mission and ...
On the Bright Side: Local woman heading to East Timor for three years 6 Jan 2009 05:33 GMT
... On the Bright Side: Local woman heading to East Timor for three years A Stamford woman who worked at ...

Countywide gets license for '09 6 Jan 2009 04:16 GMT
... letter from the Ohio EPA confirming this understanding. Kirk Norris, the department's director of environmental health, recommended that the board approve the 2009 license on the condition that the “bifurcation” ...
Probe into dumping of chicken carcasses 6 Jan 2009 02:31 GMT
... pose a severe health risk. Throughout yesterday representatives from Dungannon and South Tyrone Council’s environmental health department carried out an inspection of the scene and has informed the DoE’s crime ...
New safety rules for children's clothes have stores in a fit 5 Jan 2009 23:15 GMT
... have been added to fabric, said Charles Margulis, communications director for the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland. A child in Minnesota died a few years ago after swallowing a ...
Commissioners take on junkyard, planning board issues 5 Jan 2009 22:51 GMT
... the county's actions, but didn't. Smithey also acknowledged that a neighbor and the county Environmental Health Department had sued him over his business, and that he hasn't completely complied with ...
Ritter Calls January Colorado Radon Action Month 5 Jan 2009 22:31 GMT
... test kits at . The Web site also lists contractors certified by the National Environmental Health Association to install systems to remove, or mitigate, radon. (© MMIX CBS Television Stations, ...

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The Lisa of Our Concerns 5 Jan 2009 19:32 GMT
... in August 2008, saying that Jackson prioritized the interests of developers and industry over environmental health. "I just can't function in that environment anymore," she told Grist. "It just went ...
Federal, California Regulators Urged to Deny Industry Petition to Delay or Reverse California Off-Ro 5 Jan 2009 19:31 GMT
... Federal, California Regulators Urged to Deny Industry Petition to Delay or Reverse California Off-Road Diesel Rule Federal, ...
Federal, California Regulators Urged to Deny Industry Petition to Delay or Reverse California Off-Road Diesel Rule 5 Jan 2009 19:30 GMT
... State Officials to Review Rule Updates Later this Month LOS ANGELES, Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Federal and state ...
Crackdown on law-breaking smokers 5 Jan 2009 17:50 GMT
... clamp down on people who light up on the city's buses. The city council's environmental health officers and Travel West Midlands have joined forces to tackle the issue of people ...
The Year In Review 2008 5 Jan 2009 17:31 GMT
... Whew, what a year! It’s tough to characterize a mind-bending one like 2008, but how about this: It’s still ...
Village Farms Names Stephen Ruffini Chief Financial Officer 5 Jan 2009 17:31 GMT
... has been guided by a sustainable agriculture policy which integrates three main goals - environmental health, economic profitability and social and economic equality. Restriction on Non-Resident Ownership The Declaration of ...
Hotel owner's electricity dispute 'exaggerated' 5 Jan 2009 17:12 GMT
... electricity to power it says the dispute has been “exaggerated”. Inspectors from Copeland council’s environmental health department served two prohibition orders on the Seacote Hotel, St Bees, after claims owner ...
Cessna's Human Factors Training In A Class By Itself 5 Jan 2009 15:52 GMT
... Stan Younger, vice president of service facilities, and Phillip Watkins Jr., manager of EHS (environmental health and safety) regulatory and training. Their offices are in Cessna’s largest service center, a ...
A crackdown on fruitcake? What's wrong with this picture? 5 Jan 2009 14:51 GMT
... state news it is: "Redding: 86-year-old disabled man is the target of Shasta County Environmental Health for Selling Fruitcakes to supplement his social security income." Using an obsolete law, our ...
Progress Energy Provides 2009 Ongoing Earnings Guidance and Updates 2008 Guidance 5 Jan 2009 13:50 GMT
... RALEIGH, N.C., Jan. 5 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Progress Energy (NYSE: PGN) announced today it expects 2009 ongoing earnings guidance ...

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Arusha municipality orders edible oil factory to close down 5 Jan 2009 13:50 GMT
... Arusha municipality orders edible oil factory to close down Arusha Municipal Authorities have closed-down a major edible-oil-processing ...
Bedbugs crawl back into nation's sheets 5 Jan 2009 11:30 GMT
... known as disease carriers. “Anyone can be at risk,” said Greg Kesterman, director of environmental health for the Hamilton County Public Health agency, which includes Cincinnati. The county received two ...
Reproductive Health needs adequate resources 5 Jan 2009 09:50 GMT
... Mr. Akwasi Boakye-Yiadom, Director of Programmes of the Planned Parenthood Association of Ghana (PPAG), has said that ...
Rehab moves from the Priory to suburbia as patient numbers rise 5 Jan 2009 09:35 GMT
... general 'not in my backyard' response." Referring to the specific house, he added: "The environmental health department have been around and have been unable to find evidence of the problem ...
State to e-mail food safety alerts 5 Jan 2009 09:11 GMT
... the selling of recalled items, said Tip MacGuire, director of Tuscola County Health Department's environmental health division. "An e-mail alert seems like a better idea than a text message alert ...