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Sharps Launches Ship-Back Recycling Program

July 17, 2014July 21, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Sharps Compliance will promote Veolia’s Recyclepak, a lighting and battery ship-back recycling program, marketing this service to customers as a complement to Sharps’ line of unused medication and medical waste management services. About 680 million mercury-containing lamps are discarded each year with about 25 percent to 30 percent being properly ... Read more »

Gasmet Launches Continuous Mercury Emission Monitoring System

May 14, 2014May 15, 2014 by Leon Walker

Gasmet Technologies, a Finnish manufacturer of emission monitoring instruments, has launched a continuous mercury emission monitoring system based on the cold vapor atomic fluorescence measurement principle. The analyzer is integrated in an air conditioned cabinet together with a vacuum pump, an automatic calibrator and a nitrogen gas generator. The sample ... Read more »

LCA Shows Greener Choice for Mercury Removal

May 5, 2014May 2, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A lifecycle assessment of Novinda’s Amended Silicates HgX (AS-HgX), a non-carbon product for removing mercury from the flue gas of coal-fired power plants, shows the product’s greenhouse emissions were one-tenth of those associated with powdered activated carbon (PAC) products. The company says this GHG performance delivers a potential reduction in ... Read more »

Mercury Control Technology Ordered

February 25, 2014February 25, 2014 by Bill Opalka

Midwest Energy Emissions said that its mercury emissions control technology has been chosen by a large coal-power cooperative in the Southwest US that will be worth about $2 million yearly. The initial system installation will is valued at $2.4 million this year, with yearly revenue starting in 2015. EPA’s Mercury and ... Read more »

Manufacturer Mercury Thermostat Recycling Program ‘Not Working’

January 17, 2014January 17, 2014 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

A program in Illinois that requires mercury thermostat manufacturers to collect and recycle their products isn’t preventing pollution, according to a study by the Natural Resources Defense Council and Clean Water Fund. The study shows 1.86 million thermostats in use in Illinois contain mercury; this is about one-fourth of the ... Read more »

Manufacturers Must Recycle Mercury Thermostats

December 23, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo has signed into law a bill that requires mercury thermostat manufacturers to collect and recycle their products. The Mercury Thermostat Collection Act, which was passed by the state assembly in June, requires that manufacturers develop and implement a thermostat collection program that meets a pre-established ... Read more »

URS Technology Demonstrates 85% Mercury Removal for Coal-Fired Power Plants

November 4, 2013November 4, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

URS says full-scale testing of its emissions control technology at a Midwestern power plant has demonstrated greater than 85 percent mercury (Hg) removal and greater than 98 percent sulfur trioxide (SO3) removal, upstream of the plant’s wet scrubber. The technology uses a single sorbent to simultaneously capture Hg and SO3 ... Read more »

Novinda Introduces Enhanced Non-Carbon Reagent for Mercury Capture

May 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Novinda, which makes non-carbon mercury removal products, has announced the next-generation of its reagent for mercury emissions capture. The company says its Amended Silicates HgX provides better performance for removing mercury from coal-fired power plant flue gas emissions compared to its earlier product. In data from long-term, full-scale power plant ... Read more »

Global Mercury Emissions Treaty Adopted by 140 Nations

January 23, 2013January 23, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

After four years of negotiation, more than 140 countries have adopted the first legally binding international agreement to control mercury emissions through a number of rules that place limits on power plants and industrial boilers as well as phase out products, such as batteries and thermometers, that use the toxic ... Read more »

Coal Plants Drag Heels on Emissions Cuts

January 4, 2013November 13, 2016 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Emissions increased or showed little change at seven of the 10 worst mercury-emitting coal-fired power plants in 2011, compared to 2010, according to a report by the Environmental Integrity Project. The seven plants are owned by Luminant Generation, Southern Company, Great River Energy, Grand River Dam Authority and DTE Energy. But ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: State of the Union, ETS Waivers, Tidal Permit, Cal ISO Plan

January 25, 2012June 18, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Manufacturers should get incentives to make energy-efficiency improvements to their plants, President Obama said in last night’s State of the Union address. He called on Congress to draft a bill creating such incentives, which he said would save companies $100 billion over a decade. In the speech, Obama also said he ... Read more »

World’s Largest Metal Recycler Ordered to Stop Discharges

January 11, 2012January 12, 2012 by Tamar Wilner

The world’s largest metals and electronics recycler, Sims Metal Management, has been illegally discharging PCBs, mercury, lead, copper and zinc into San Francisco Bay, the EPA charged on Tuesday. The EPA ordered Sims, located at the Port of Redwood City, Calif., to comply with federal Clean Water Act laws. It ... Read more »

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