The Business Environmental Program provides free and confidential environmental management assistance to business and government operations in Nevada. The Program specializes in cost effective strategies to reduce hazardous materials and waste generation, conserve water and energy, minimize air emissions, and maintain compliance with environmental requirements. The program provides training, on-site consultation, assistance over the phone and through its website and publications.
Ryan Matley, Rocky Mountain Institute Stories about the death of U.S. manufacturing are a recurring theme since the “Japanese invasion” of electronics and autos in the early 1980s, and the sector hemorrhaged 5.5 million jobs over the past decade. But U.S. manufacturing is far from dead, in fact providing a rare bright spot in today’s economy....
From Environmental Leader, January 27, 2012 Air compressors present a variety of opportunities for saving energy, from leak reduction and air intake improvements, to maintenance, monitoring, specification and design, according to guidance from the Carbon Trust. Of the total energy supplied to a compressor, as little as 8 to 10 percent is converted to usable...
Investigate West Leftover medications are fueling an epidemic of prescription-drug abuse that is killing more Washingtonians than traffic accidents, say drug-addiction experts. Yet pharmaceutical companies have consistently torpedoed efforts here to fund a statewide disposal program for unused drugs. Meanwhile, environmental authorities say prescription drugs are turning up in waterways and even drinking water —...
From Environmental Leader Renovating old buildings is better for the environment than building new structures, according to a report by the National Trust for Historic Preservation. According to The Greenest building: Quantifying the Environmental Value of Building Reuse, renovating an existing historic office building in Chicago reduces the building’s impact on climate change by up to 12...
Source: Waste Disposal Equipment New Free Guide shows how to answer that. Q: At a time when companies are desperately looking for ways to reduce costs and increase revenues, what sense does it make to consider spending money on waste disposal and recycling equipment? A: It could very well mean reduced costs and additional revenues. All they need to do is...
Jan 24, 2012 Many people may be familiar with the nursery rhyme, “Rain rain, go away; come again some other day.” As an environmental professional, I propose a new rhyme: “Rain rain, it comes today; pollutants with it flows away.” While the rhymes themselves may be lost in translation to other languages, the meaning of...
EPA Regulatory update Abstract: Under the authority of sections 3004, 3005, 3008 and 3010 of the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), as amended, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is finalizing revisions to the RCRA hazardous waste permitting program to allow a “standardized permit.” The standardized permit is available to facilities that generate hazardous...
Status Update As a result from comments received in response to the December 2, 2008 Proposed Rule, the Agency has decided to develop another proposal for healthcare facility-specific regulations for the management of hazardous pharmaceutical wastes in order to provide a regulatory scheme that addresses the unique issues that hospitals, pharmacies and other healthcare-related facilities...
EPA Recycling Water Science