Poor indoor air quality has long been known to have adverse effects on human health. However, the 2014 paper Air Pollution Exposure and Cardiovascular Disease (Lee et.al) has established a direct causal link between indoor air pollution and cardiac conditions. Our hope is that this further illustrates the seriousness of managing indoor air quality, particularly for
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Asbestos Project Monitoring Services Removing asbestos materials is always a big job! Often, asbestos projects require additional knowledge and skill of an environmental consulting team. This team properly monitors abatement activities to ensure all asbestos removal and disposal are being conducted correctly. At Batta Environmental Associates, we provide Asbestos Abatement projects with Quality Assurance
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Did you ever enter a public or company bathroom and get a whiff of such a repulsive odor? Well actually many people daily stumble upon odorous facilities. The odor of a bad toilet probably means that you are standing in a room alongside millions of bacterial microbes. It is, after all, both embarrassing and offensive
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U.S. Sens. Chris Coons, D-DE, a member of the Senate Small Business and Entrepreneurship Committee, and Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), a member of the Senate Finance Committee, sent a letter urging Secretary of the Treasury, Steven Mnuchin, to “protect the original intent of the Opportunity Zone policy, namely to harness capital and generate investment, new business,
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The government shutdown is putting the brakes on scores of real-estate investors and developers who have been raising hundreds of millions of dollars to take advantage of what could be one of the most attractive tax breaks in years. Businesses had been hoping to move quickly this year to take advantage of the lucrative opportunity-zone
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A developer hoping to attract offices, homes, and warehouses to the 420-acre former Claymont Steel site on the Pennsylvania-Delaware state line and along the Delaware River has donated 15.5 acres for the construction of a mass-transit station, with 800 parking spaces, for people using SEPTA trains and Delaware’s DART buses. The land was given by
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Research Summary: Air sampling tests were performed in an active oral surgery and periodontal medicine facility to measure the efficacy of the AiroCide system in removing airborne bacterial colony forming units (CFU’s). The tests resulted in airborne mold/fungi reduction of 66% in the operating room (OR#3) and 100% in the adjacent corridor in 48 hours.
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(New York, N.Y.) – This week, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Acting Administrator Andrew Wheeler, U.S. Housing and Urban Development (HUD) Secretary Ben Carson, and U.S. Health and Human Services (HHS) Deputy Secretary Eric Hargan unveiled the Trump Administration’s Federal Lead Action Plan to Reduce Childhood Lead Exposures and Associated Health Impacts (Lead Action Plan). “The Federal Lead
read moreThe Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality has received a grant of nearly $190,000 from the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fund lead paint training and enforcement programs to help reduce exposure to lead and improve public health. Commenting on the initiative, Regional Administrator Anne Idsal stated, “One of EPA’s main priorities is reducing and
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