The ARPA Environment Committee held their first meeting of the new year on Thursday, January 19th. The newly appointed deputy director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ), Misael Cabrera, was a special guest at the meeting. Misael Cabrera is a registered professional engineer with almost two decades experience that includes contract management, regulatory [...]
The Bureau of Land Management today announced the appointment of two long-term career professionals to key leadership positions in the agency’s Arizona and New Mexico State Offices.
Raymond Suazo has been selected as the State Director in Arizona, where he will oversee nearly 500 employees and the management of more than 12 million surface and 17 [...]
Preliminary data from MSHA reveals that 37 miners died in work-related accidents at the nation’s mines in 2011. There were 21 coal mining and 16 metal/nonmetal mining fatalities last year, compared with 48 and 23, respectively, in 2010, making 2011 the year with the second-lowest number of mining deaths since statistics were first recorded in [...]
The National Stone, Sand & Gravel Association (NSSGA) commended the U.S. House of Representatives for passing the Farm Dust Regulation Prevention Act, a bill to protect producers of resource-based products, including aggregates, as well as farmers and ranchers, from increased regulation of a naturally occurring substance. The bill passed 258-150, with 33 Democrats joining all [...]
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has signaled that it will retain the current coarse particulate (PM10) national ambient air quality standard. This is of major importance to the aggregates industry because a reduced standard would have required many facilities to cut production, particularly in the arid West and Midwest. PM10 refers to particulate matter [...]
Firms that emit pollutants may see 15% rise
by Yvonne Wingett Sanchez – Jul. 6, 2011 12:00 AM
The Arizona Republic
The Maricopa County Board of Supervisors is soon expected to consider increasing the costs of certain permits for companies that emit pollutants into the air.
The additional $1.1 million in permit fees that would be generated would help [...]
PHOENIX – Governor Jan Brewer today named Henry R. Darwin the new Director of the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality (ADEQ). Darwin, who has served as Acting Director since the departure of Benjamin Grumbles in December, has received a full appointment as the new ADEQ Director.
“I am pleased to announce the appointment of Henry Darwin,” [...]
ADEQ, Maricopa County Choose to Improve Dust Control Plan; ADEQ Withdraws Earlier Plan to U.S. EPA
PHOENIX – (Jan. 25, 2011) – Despite measured reductions in particulate matter in the air around Maricopa County under a plan submitted to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency in 2007, the Arizona Department of Environmental Quality is withdrawing the [...]
Mine Safety & Health Administration
Pit and Quarry – November 29, 2010
MSHA announced the second phase of its fatality-reduction program “Rules to Live by II: Preventing Catastrophic Accidents.” MSHA said this is the next step as it works to prevent fatalities, focusing on frequently cited standards at major and potentially major mine accidents. This past January, [...]
Nov, 19 2010
(Arlington, Virginia) — The U.S. Department of Labor’s Mine Safety and Health Administration today launched the second phase of an outreach and enforcement program designed to strengthen efforts to prevent mining fatalities.
“Rules to Live By II: Preventing Catastrophic Accidents” was developed from data gathered by reviewing accidents that resulted in five or more [...]