Greenpeace wants to see companies eliminate the use of hazardous substances such as polyvinyl chloride, brominated flame retardants, antimony, beryllium, and phthalates.
As an eco-friendly product, the drive offers low-power consumption and lead-free soldering technology, a design that complies with international environmental regulations that limit the use of hazardous materials.
Mr. FRED SATTERSTROM (Director of Community Development, Kent, Washington): We required a conditional use permit because they were handling hazardous substances.
The rotors turn in opposite directions to cancel out torque, the twisting action which requires conventional helicopters to use a tail rotor a hazardous appendage.
But paper production consumes massive amounts of fresh water, pollutes the water it doesn't use and is a major generator of hazardous air pollutants.
Unlike conventional monitors, LED-backlit displays contain few or no environmentally hazardous substances, such as mercury or lead, and use about 40 percent less energy.
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Approximately 1, 100 such units at more than 450 existing power plants emit 48 tons of mercury into the air each year, with 11 tons of that deposited on to U.S. soil and waters, says EPA. Those plants also release arsenic, lead and other heavy metals, all of which are considered hazardous and are therefore subject to clean air laws that require those facilities to use modern pollution controls.
But if the material is reclassified as a hazardous waste, coal groups say that coal ash would be irreversibly stigmatized and any ancillary use of it would evaporate.
These are the first national standards to require use of modern control technologies to reduce mercury, arsenic, lead, hydrochloric acid and other hazardous air pollutants from coal plants.
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Lilliputian's fuel cell has been approved for use on commercial aircraft by the International Civil Aviation Organization and a United Nations body that regulates shipment of hazardous materials.
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