Hazardous Material Magazine : Headline News

2012 World Conference on Disaster Management coming to Toronto

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:28:00 EST

Disastrous events are becoming all too familiar -- from natural disasters like earthquakes, wildfires, flooding, hurricanes and tornadoes, to terror threats, pandemic outbreaks and cyber attacks -- and in the wake of tightening budgets in... [Full Story]

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Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:26:00 EST

HazMat Management magazine invites our readers to fill in our annual Great Canadian Environment Survey for a chance to win one of FOUR Amazon Kindle e-book readers. [Full Story]

Sims Metal named one of the world's most sustainable companies

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:24:00 EST

Sims Metal Management, which includes Sims Recycling Solutions, has been recognized as one of the Global 100 Most Sustainable Corporations in the World for the fourth year running. [Full Story]

BC awards $100,000 contract for oil, gas health risk assessment

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:20:00 EST

The British Columbia (B.C.) government has awarded a contract, valued at $100,000, to the Fraser Basin Council (FBC) for the first phase of a human health risk assessment of oil and gas development in northeast B.C. [Full Story]

Ontario safety blitz to focus on MSDs

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:17:00 EST

As part of its ongoing initiative to reduce workplace injuries in Ontario, the provincial government is launching a one-month safety blitz on musculoskeletal disorders (MSDs). [Full Story]

Activists sue EPA to issue final coal ash rule

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 30 Jan 2012 14:15:00 EST

As reported by the U.S.-based Waste Business Journal (www.wastebusinessjournal.com), a coalition of 11 environmental and public health groups are suing the EPA to force the agency to set a hard deadline by which it will issue the final version... [Full Story]

General Motors' Flint, Michigan plant earns clean corporate citizen distinction

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:48:00 EST

General Motors' Flint, Michigan Assembly Plant is the latest facility in the GM family to be named a Michigan Clean Corporate Citizen by the Michigan Department of Environmental Quality (DEQ). [Full Story]

Fill in our survey for a chance to win a Kindle e-book reader!

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:45:00 EST

HazMat Management magazine invites our readers to fill in our annual Great Canadian Environment Survey for a chance to win one of FOUR Amazon Kindle e-book readers. [Full Story]

Feds invest $1.28 billion in Ontario radioactive waste cleanup

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:43:00 EST

The federal government, through the Port Hope Area Initiative (PHAI), is investing $1.28 billion over a 10-year period to remediate low-level radioactive waste in Ontario's Port Hope area. [Full Story]

Saskatchewan government buildings receive environmental certification

Hazardous Material Magazine — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 12:40:00 EST

BOMA (Building Owners and Managers Association) Canada has awarded the Saskatchewan government with two BOMA BESt (Building Environment Standards) certifications for its work to reduce its environmental footprint. [Full Story]