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Rule Changing Background In 2017, several RMP rule changes were proposed, which we previously covered. On November 20, 2019, the EPA administrator, Andrew Wheeler, signed the final Risk Management Program Reconsideration final rule. The EPA says this about the change: “[It] modifies and improves the existing rule to remove burdensome, costly, unnecessary amendments while maintaining […]
A New Zealander is injured in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Person Injured after Ammonia Leak at Silver Fern Farms in Takapau – A person has moderate injuries after an ammonia leak at a Central Hawke’s Bay freezing works. […keep reading] EPA Fines Fertilizer Plants, Highlighting the Failure of Many Facilities to Monitor Risks […]
An ammonia tank flips over in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Farm Tractor Accident causes Ammonia Tank to Overturn – Losure’s Towing and Recovery used two wreckers to right the ammonia tank at about 4:15 p.m. […keep reading] IIAR 9 Chapters 1-6 (IIAR 9, Part 2) – Watch this overview of chapters 1-6 from the […]
Trouble in paradise? A big leak in Cancun and more all in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Ammonia Leak in Cancun Ice Plant Sees Hundreds Evacuated – Personnel from the Directorate of Civil Protection in coordination with firefighters and police from Benito Juárez evicted hundreds from the area surrounding region 230 Wednesday after […]
An ammonia leak shuts down a beach in this week’s edition of the Ammonia Week in Review… Sizewell B Nuclear Plant Ammonia Leak Closes Part of Beach – EDF Energy said the leak from a storage tank at Sizewell B in Suffolk on Friday afternoon was “immediately contained”. […keep reading] Firefighter Claims Severe, Permanent Disability from Beach Park […]