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Friday, November 12, 2021 at 6:46:04 AM
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Table of Contents (12 articles)
LEAD FOUND IN MOST PAINT CHIPS AFTER BLOOMINGTON HOUSE FIRE
Tags: us_IN, laboratory, follow-up, environmental, paints
FIRE DESTROYS 30 PCT OF LAWAS SECONDARY SCHOOL LAB
Tags: Malaysia, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
DEMOLITION OF COLD-WAR ERA BUILDING SENDS POTENTIALLY RADIOACTIVE DUST INTO AIR ABOVE LA ‰?? NBC LOS ANGELES
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, environmental, dust, explosives, radiation
BELOIT IDENTIFIES CHEMICALS THAT FORCED POWERHOUSE EVACUATION
Tags: us_WI, education, follow-up, environmental, pool_chemicals
VAUGHAN FIRE ON SCENE AT CONCORD AERESOL BUSINESS FOR HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL MATERIAL SPILL
Tags: Canada, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical
ROUTE 60 IN BARBOURSVILLE BACK OPEN AFTER CHEMICAL SPILLS FROM TRUCK
Tags: us_WV, transportation, release, response, other_chemical
SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT REACHED IN BENNINGTON PFOA SUIT
Tags: us_VT, industrial, follow-up, environmental, paints, plastics
VESSEL EVACUATED FROM PORT IN ST HELENA BAY AFTER RELEASING TOXIC FUMES
Tags: South_Africa, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical
MAJOR BLAZE GUTS FURNITURE SHOP-GODOWN IN PISOLI
Tags: India, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
THREE INJURED IN CHEMICAL INCIDENT AT BELOIT COLLEGE POWERHOUSE
Tags: us_WI, education, release, injury, pool_chemicals
HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON ‰??TSCA AND PUBLIC HEALTH: FULFILLING THE PROMISE OF THE LAUTENBERG ACT‰??
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
MSD‰??S PROCESS SAFETY SCALE-UP METHODOLOGY FOR PILOT PLANT SCALE AND BEYOND
Tags: industrial, discovery, environmental, pharmaceutical
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LEAD FOUND IN MOST PAINT CHIPS AFTER BLOOMINGTON HOUSE FIRE
https://www.westport-news.com/news/article/Lead-found-in-most-paint-chips-after-Bloomington-16612452.php
Tags: us_IN, laboratory, follow-up, environmental, paints
BLOOMINGTON, Ind. (AP) ‰?? Testing has detected lead in most of the paint chips that fell to the ground in southern Indiana when a house was burned for a firefighter training exercise, an Indiana University professor says.
Gabriel Filippelli, a biogeochemist who is director of IU‰??s Environmental Resilience Institute, said ‰??nearly all‰?? the paint chips brought to his laboratory tested positive for lead-based paint.
‰??This includes even sites well away from the fire,‰?? he told The Herald-Times via email.
Filippelli said the results are preliminary and full laboratory test results are at least a week away on the debris, which was collected in Bloomington after the Nov. 5 house fire.
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FIRE DESTROYS 30 PCT OF LAWAS SECONDARY SCHOOL LAB
https://www.theborneopost.com/2021/11/11/fire-destroys-30-pct-of-lawas-secondary-school-lab/
Tags: Malaysia, laboratory, fire, response, unknown_chemical
SIBU (Nov 11): An old laboratory at SMK Trusan in Lawas was 30 per cent destroyed in a fire today.
According to Sarawak Fire and Rescue Department (Bomba) operations centre spokesperson, 10 firemen and a fire engine were deployed from the Lawas station to the school after they received a distress call around 4.45pm.
The operation commander reported that the laboratory, measuring 30 feet by 60 feet, was already 30 per cent destroyed when they arrived at the scene.
Firefighters managed to bring the fire under control around 5.19pm.
There were no injuries reported, and the operation officially ended around 5.33pm, he said in a statement.
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DEMOLITION OF COLD-WAR ERA BUILDING SENDS POTENTIALLY RADIOACTIVE DUST INTO AIR ABOVE LA ‰?? NBC LOS ANGELES
https://www.nbclosangeles.com/news/local/explosion-sends-potentially-radioactive-dust-into-air-above-la/2757761/
Tags: us_CA, laboratory, follow-up, environmental, dust, explosives, radiation
The U.S. Department of Energy demolished a building using explosives last month at the highly contaminated Santa Susana Field Lab (SSFL), a former nuclear and rocket test site in the hills above LA. The building was part of a complex at SSFL used to develop nuclear reactors.
The explosion sent clouds of dust into the sky near residential neighborhoods of what some experts say were radioactive materials.
"I was absolutely flabbergasted," Dan Hirsch told the NBC-Team.
Hirsch, the former director of the Program on Environmental and Nuclear Policy at UC Santa Cruz, added, "I was concerned that that radioactive cloud would migrate to where people are."
And that's happened before. Last month, the I-Team first reported on a peer-reviewed study which found radioactive dust and ash from Santa Susana--generated by the 2018 Woolsey Fire--migrated as far as nine miles away to cities like Thousand Oaks.
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BELOIT IDENTIFIES CHEMICALS THAT FORCED POWERHOUSE EVACUATION
https://www.nbc15.com/2021/11/11/beloit-identifies-chemicals-that-forced-powerhouse-evacuation/
Tags: us_WI, education, follow-up, environmental, pool_chemicals
MADISON, Wis. (WMTV) - The City of Beloit offered new details Thursday regarding the hazardous material spill the previous day that forced the evacuation of the Beloit College Powerhouse. Emergency crews also shut down stretches of Pleasant Street and the riverwalk as part of their cleanup efforts.
According to the new statement a driver delivering pool chemicals to the Powerhouse accidentally switched the muriatic acid and chlorine lines. The new mixture emitted a gas plume that sent several people to the hospital.
On Wednesday, a spokesperson for the city, Sarah Lock, reported three people ended up going to the hospital for treatment and others were treated at the scene. The incident, which was reported around 10 a.m., shut down the street and the riverwalk for more than four hours while crews cleaned up the area.
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VAUGHAN FIRE ON SCENE AT CONCORD AERESOL BUSINESS FOR HAZARDOUS CHEMICAL MATERIAL SPILL
https://www.yorkregion.com/news-story/10516717-vaughan-fire-on-scene-at-concord-aeresol-business-for-hazardous-chemical-material-spill/
Tags: Canada, industrial, release, injury, unknown_chemical
Vaughan Fire and Rescue Services is currently on scene at a business in Concord for a hazardous chemical material spill, causing road closures northbound Keele Street from Administration Road.
On Nov. 11, at around 11:45 a.m., Vaughan Fire was dispatched to KG Spray Pack Inc. located at 8011 Keele St., for reports of a hazardous chemical material spill.
According to Deputy Fire Chief Mike Doyle who is currently on scene, eight fire units were dispatched to the scene.
"Its serious enough. Any chemical hazardous material spills we consider quite serious," Doyle said in response to the severity of the incident.
The business building, which is known for packaging and supplying aerosol products, has been evacuated. A few employee are being treated for injuries caused by inhalation.
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ROUTE 60 IN BARBOURSVILLE BACK OPEN AFTER CHEMICAL SPILLS FROM TRUCK
https://wchstv.com/news/local/route-60-in-barboursville-back-open-after-chemical-spills-from-truck
Tags: us_WV, transportation, release, response, other_chemical
BARBOURSVILLE, W.Va. (WCHS) ‰?? Route 60 in Barboursville is back open after a chemical spill closed the road for nearly eight hours.
Firefighters had to close the road between East Pea Ridge and Davis Creek about 1 p.m. Thursday after a chemical began leaking from a truck.
The chemical that spilled was glutaraldehyde, which is used to make disinfectants, firefighters said.
Firefighters and hazardous materials crews helped clean up that chemical.
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SETTLEMENT AGREEMENT REACHED IN BENNINGTON PFOA SUIT
https://www.benningtonbanner.com/local-news/settlement-agreement-reached-in-bennington-pfoa-suit/article_7e1e13ca-42fa-11ec-8465-5faf0d99cc1b.html
Tags: us_VT, industrial, follow-up, environmental, paints, plastics
BENNINGTON ‰?? A $34.15 million agreement has been reached to settle a class-action suit in U.S. District Court over PFOA contamination in Bennington area wells and elevated levels in the blood of residents, the plaintiffs announced Thursday morning.
The proposed settlement calls for Saint-Gobain Performance Plastics to pay a total of $34.15 million to compensate property owners for PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) contamination, including providing up to $6 million for continued medical monitoring for those who have higher than normal background levels of PFOA in their blood.
Saint-Gobain was the last owner of two former ChemFab Corp. plants in town that are considered the source of the once commonly used industrial chemical, which spread through exhaust stacks over a wide area and worked over time into soil and groundwater.
Saint-Gobain closed the last ChemFab plant here in 2002 and shifted the fabric coating operations to a New Hampshire facility. Fiberglass and other fabric material was coated at the ChemFab sites with liquid Teflon and dried at high temperature.
The contamination in hundreds of Bennington wells was discovered in testing that began in 2016, after similar contamination was documented in nearby Hoosick Falls, N.Y.
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VESSEL EVACUATED FROM PORT IN ST HELENA BAY AFTER RELEASING TOXIC FUMES
https://www.news24.com/news24/SouthAfrica/News/vessel-evacuated-from-port-in-st-helena-bay-after-releasing-toxic-fumes-20211110-3
Tags: South_Africa, transportation, release, response, unknown_chemical
vessel was evacuated from the port in St Helena Bay because it was releasing toxic fumes into the atmosphere.
The SA Maritime Safety Authority (Samsa) said on Wednesday that the bulk carrier NS Qingdao experienced a chemical reaction when its cargo came into contact with rain water during discharge at the Durban port.
Concentrated toxic fumes were released into the atmosphere. As a result, the Transnet National Port Authority, in consultation with Samsa and other stakeholders, decided to evacuate the vessel from the port so that the hatches could be ventilated.
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MAJOR BLAZE GUTS FURNITURE SHOP-GODOWN IN PISOLI
https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/city/pune/major-blaze-guts-furniture-shop-godown-in-pisoli/articleshow/87613864.cms
Tags: India, industrial, fire, response, unknown_chemical
Pune: A furniture shop-cum-godown at Pisoli was gutted in a major fire that broke out around 3.15am on Tuesday.
No one was reported injured.Fourteen fire tenders of the Pune Municipal Corporation (PMC) and Pune Metropolitan Region Development Authority (PMRDA) reached the spot and extinguished the fire around 7am. ‰??Wooden furniture such as doors, tables, chairs and other home decor articles were gutted. Plywood stored in the godown was also gutted,‰?? said fire station duty officer Vijay Bhilare.
All the furniture shops and godowns located in the area are made up of tin-sheets, including the unit that was gutted, Bhilare said. ‰??The exact cause of the fire is still not known. The furniture and some cleaning and chemical polish added fuel to the fire. Further investigation is on,‰?? Bhilare said, adding that fire officials ensured that the blaze did not reach several neighbouring shops.
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THREE INJURED IN CHEMICAL INCIDENT AT BELOIT COLLEGE POWERHOUSE
https://www.beloitdailynews.com/news/local-news/three-injured-in-chemical-incident-at-beloit-college-powerhouse/article_441e5ca5-162b-5ed9-884b-7b4a6673db5f.html
Tags: us_WI, education, release, injury, pool_chemicals
BELOIT ‰?? Three people were treated for injuries following an incident involving pool chemicals at the Beloit College Powerhouse student union on Wednesday morning in Beloit, according to the Beloit Fire Department.
The department responded at around 9:39 a.m. for a report of a strong smell of chlorine at the Powerhouse, 850 Pleasant St., and found two people who were suffering unspecified injuries. The patients were transported to a local hospital and a third patient drove to an area hospital for treatment on their own, per Beloit Fire Department Capt. Mike Rosario, who served as the incident commander.
Beloit College Interim Chief Communications Officer Elizabeth Conlisk said the cause of the incident remains under investigation, and added those injured were not Beloit College students.
Rosario confirmed that a vendor contracted by the college to conduct pool maintenance was at the Powerhouse and servicing the pool area when a mixture of pool chemicals created a hazardous gas plume that resulted in the evacuation of the facility.
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HOUSE SUBCOMMITTEE HOLDS HEARING ON ‰??TSCA AND PUBLIC HEALTH: FULFILLING THE PROMISE OF THE LAUTENBERG ACT‰??
https://www.jdsupra.com/legalnews/house-subcommittee-holds-hearing-on-5564113/
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
The House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Environment and Climate Change held a hearing on October 27, 2021, on ‰??TSCA and Public Health: Fulfilling the Promise of the Lautenberg Act.‰?? The October 25, 2021, briefing memorandum notes that the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act (the Lautenberg Act) comprehensively amended TSCA, ‰??including key reforms to increase EPA‰??s authority to mandate testing, require EPA to make affirmative decisions about the safety of new chemicals, and require the evaluation, and where merited, the regulation of existing chemicals.‰??
Dr. Michal Ilana Freedhoff, Assistant Administrator for OCSPP, was the Subcommittee‰??s only witness. In her testimony, she emphasized several critical building blocks of a sustainable TSCA program:
Resources: EPA needs meaningful new funding to reflect its new responsibilities under the Lautenberg Act. Freedhoff estimates that EPA has less than 50 percent of the resources necessary to review and approve new chemicals in the way Congress intended;
Strong science and scientific integrity; and
Policies and processes that will lead to legally and scientifically defensible and protective chemical safety actions. The previous Administration issued ten final risk evaluations. While some EPA policy changes made under the Biden Administration will require revision to some of these risk evaluations, EPA‰??s intent is to do only what is necessary. These policy changes include reversing the assumption that all workers always use personal protective equipment (PPE) and reversing the decision to exclude exposures to chemicals from air, drinking water, and disposal.
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MSD‰??S PROCESS SAFETY SCALE-UP METHODOLOGY FOR PILOT PLANT SCALE AND BEYOND
https://pubs.acs.org/doi/10.1021/acs.oprd.1c00360
Tags: industrial, discovery, environmental, pharmaceutical
Process safety testing is critical for small molecule active pharmaceutical ingredient (API) scale-up and manufacturing by proactively identifying any process safety hazards, including environmental and industrial hygiene issues. The intent of this contribution is to describe how Merck & Co., Inc. Kenilworth, NJ (known as MSD outside of the U.S. and Canada) manages process safety testing for pilot plant and manufacturing scale operations with a stagewise approach. Several case studies will be discussed.
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