Industry news, compliance guidance, and best practices from iSi Environmental's expert team
Federal OSHA gives you fifteen working days to explain a delay, not to produce the record. California gives fifteen calendar days, hard. Here is the difference.
OSHA requires eight specific elements in a laboratory chemical hygiene plan, plus an annual effectiveness evaluation most labs cannot evidence. All eight here.
Class I injection well permitting, state by state: a different agency in Kansas, Oklahoma, Texas and Nebraska, EPA direct in Colorado, and banned in Missouri.
If your plant, school, or campus runs its own well, federal lead service line inventory rules already apply. EPA is enforcing now. Here is how to check.
NPL deletion is a rulemaking. What a buyer, lender, or developer has to verify on a delisted or partially delisted Superfund parcel before closing.
Kansas wants your stormwater NOI 60 days out. Nebraska wants 7. What a general contractor needs in hand, HASP included, before a remediation job starts.
Acetone in a groundwater sample is usually laboratory contamination. Get the trip blank evidence, the current 2x blank rule, and a tree that ends in an action.
OSHA's silica PEL is 50 µg/m3 and the action level is 25 µg/m3. Here is how Site-Specific Targeting turns a manufacturer's own 300A filing into an inspection.
A five-year review rechecks whether a finished Kansas cleanup still works. There is no comment period. The one documented input channel is an interview.
KDHE opens a 15-day comment window on each draft Agency Decision Statement. That is when Kansas cleanup levels and recorded use restrictions get fixed.
Leading indicators live in OSHA guidance. OSHA's Site-Specific Targeting program picks inspections from the lagging 300A injury data you submitted yourself.
A compliance audit finding starts two clocks: 21 days to disclose to EPA, 60 days from discovery to correct. What self-disclosure protects and what it does not.
County data center impact studies, the Sedgwick County pause and Kansas water rights: what the ordinances require and what a water permit actually takes.
EPA's 2026 agenda filtered to the air, RCRA, TSCA and PFAS actions that hit industrial plants: RINs, dockets, projected dates, and what those dates really mean.
Your industrial stormwater permit authorizes rain, not process water. The 11 authorized non-stormwater discharges, the 4 banned at food plants, and what to do.
KDHE names Kansas facilities in a weekly water permit notice with a 30-day comment window. What the clock means, who it covers, and what missing it costs.
The Eighth Circuit stay keeps Missouri St. Louis sources at 100 tpy RACT and NNSR thresholds today, while the Illinois side of the same airshed sits at 50 tpy.
OSHA's warehousing NEP took effect 7/31/2026. Seven NAICS codes, industry-based site selection, what inspectors examine, and the changes nobody reported.
Three agencies issue air permits across the Kansas City metro. Which one covers your site, the thresholds that trigger a permit, and what the city charges.
EPA proposed new NOx RACT limits for Metro-East St. Louis manufacturers. The area is bi-state, and Missouri's half faces the same test on the same clock.
Tier II filings across Kansas, Oklahoma, Missouri and Nebraska run on four incompatible state processes. What multi-site EHS managers must know before March 1.
OSHA regulates creosote as coal tar pitch volatiles: 0.2 mg/m³ PEL. Why a written hazard assessment under 1910.132(d) must come before any PPE selection.
Detroit hit AQI 650 with no workplace smoke rule. Four states regulate wildfire smoke at work — what OSHA can enforce everywhere else and how to respond.
OSHA has no standard for post-head-strike response. How to build a workplace head injury response protocol that meets OSHA recordkeeping and reporting rules.