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Jeff Fedors
- Nov 28, 2016
- 2 min
Air & Waste Management Conference
Baron Environmental Associates takes part in regular Air & Waste Management Association (AWMA) meetings. These meetings seek to update the public about new trends regarding regulations and enforcement in New Jersey. The AWMA/NJDEP Annual Regulatory Update was held on November 18, 2016. Attendees included personnel from NJDEP as well as other professionals from New Jersey consulting firms and industries. Below is a description of the most relevant topics from the meeting. Tren
Leida Jorge
- Nov 22, 2016
- 1 min
EPA to Review PBT Chemicals for TSCA
According to an EPA media release dated October 11, 2016, EPA is prioritizing the review of five chemicals that are considered to be Persistant, Bioaccumulative, and Toxic (PBT) chemicals. These chemicals are: Decabromodiphenyl ethers (DecaBDE), used as a flame retardant in textiles, plastics, and polyurethane foam; Hexachlorobutadiene (HCBD), used in the manufacture of rubber compounds and lubricants and as a solvent; Pentachlorothio-phenol (PCTP), used an agent to make rubb
Leida Jorge
- Nov 15, 2016
- 1 min
A&WMA Upcoming Regulatory Update
Baron Environmental's own, Leida Jorge recently participated in conference calls held on October 20th and November 14th by the Northern and Central New Jersey chapter of Air and Waste Management Association. The purpose of the calls was to plan the 15th Annual NJDEP/NCNJ A&WMA Regulatory Update Conference that will take place on November 18th at NJDEP’s Public Hearing Room in Trenton, NJ. For more details, please visit the A&WMA website: http://www.mass-awma.net/nj-events.htm
Tommy Perez
- Nov 11, 2016
- 2 min
ISRA
The Industrial Site Recovery Act (ISRA) is in place to ensure that industrial sites of certain NAICS codes that undergo transfer of ownership or cease business operations investigate whether or not the facility needs remedial action. The purpose of this act is to protect new owners from inheriting environmental issues such as spills or contaminated soils. These types of issues can cost new owners millions of dollars in remediation. Once a site has declared its intent to cea
Brian Long
- Nov 9, 2016
- 3 min
Agile NJ Lean Coffee Meet-up
To build upon our continuous improvement mindset and further evolve our agile project management process, Baron Environmental participated in the November 7, 2016 Lean Coffee session, which was coordinated through the Agile NJ Meetup group held in Basking Ridge, New Jersey. Agile NJ is a local, open group of individuals that are passionate about agile project management, agile coaching, Scrum, Kanban, and other agile methodologies. So you may ask, what is agile? Agile is on
