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GCat: Design & Safety
MCat: Environment
Cat: Pollution

Guidelines on pollution prevention in the workplace, including regulations, vendor information, technical assistance, management & organization issues on specific industries. Eliminating the pollution in health care practices. Full text of a pollution prevention program. Data on key indicators of air, water, and land pollutant release data for 28 industrial groups.

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Animal Manure Management [17362] ?

Manure management, agricultural waste management education and information

EMAPPT: Environmental Management & Pollution Prevention Tool [24878] ?

Designed to provide you with a concise checklist targeted to your specific operations

Facility Response Plan (FRP) Rule [23591] ?

Facility Response Planning Compliance Assistance Guide

Industrial Environmental Performance Metrics: Challenges and Opportunities [7933] ?

Industry studies: automotive, chemical, electronics, pulp & paper

Industrial Waste Management [5879] ?

Guidance and best practices documents

Industry and Government Sectors & EPA [891] ?

EPA compliance assistance on a sector-by-sector basis

Metals Industry & EPA [217] ?

EPA documents on the fabricated metal products, non-ferrous metals, metal casting industries

National Center for Environmental Economics [26916] ?

Analyzes relationships between the economy, environmental health, and environmental pollution control

National Response System [7999] ?

Emergency response to discharges of oil and the release of chemicals into the navigable waters

Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics [2775] ?

Mission: protect human health and the environment, promote safer designs, provide information, etc.

Oil Spill Prevention and Response [18735] ?

Some of the key concepts and technologies in spill prevention and response

Oil Spill Responders [24300] ?

Here are tools and information for people dealing with coastal spills of oil and petroleum products

Pollution Equipment News [3577] ?

Home page to the monthly magazine Pollution Equipment News

Pollution Prevention Program [13327] ?

Full text of a university's program to prevent pollution

Seaport Environmental Management Handbook [18344] ?

Designed to assist ports in effectively managing their environmental issues

Sector-Based Information and Resources [2418] ?

By EPA's Sector Strategies Program, which operated from 2003 to 2010

Spill Prevention Control and Countermeasure Rule [23593] ?

Information to assist facilities in developing their SPCC plans for oil spill prevention

Technology Data [17835] ?

Information about air and water treatment systems and recycling systems

Unified Facilities Guide Specifications [18849] ?

Construction specs with sections related to pollution prevention measures


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