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Save a life this holiday season

During the long Thanksgiving weekend, a beautiful family of four from Denver went to sleep in an Aspen vacation home and never woke up . The culprit? The "silent killer," carbon monoxide, which seeped into the house because of disconnected piece of the heating and snowmelt system in a crawlspace...

Published Mon, Dec 08 2008 11:20 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Carbon Monoxide

Cow Computing

In a Disney-esque circle-of-life marriage between high tech and big agriculture, researchers from HP have proposed powering server farms with waste from dairy farms. In a nutshell, methane from bacteria-digested cow manure would be used to generate electricity. About 10,000 cows could supply enough juice...

Published Wed, May 19 2010 10:49 AM by hsiehe

Filed under: renewable energy, data centers

Danger Lurking in Schools?

Yesterday, an elementary school in Atlanta, GA was evacuated due to a carbon monoxide (CO) leak that apparently resulted from a faulty furnace. CO levels spiked to 1,700 parts per million, far exceeding levels at which CO alarms and detectors would have triggered. News reports indicate that 43 children...

Published Sat, Dec 01 2012 11:33 PM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Carbon Monoxide, Life Safety, Schools, CO, Maryland, Connecticut, Today Show, NFPA

A (Brief?) Sigh of Relief

With inflation hitting a 17-year high (subscription required) and foreign economic growth tanking (subscription req'd) (not to mention another military conflict breaking out ), things economic certainly could be better. Of course they could be much, much worse. The advance estimate for real GDP in...

Published Fri, Aug 15 2008 3:51 PM by Brian Lego

Filed under: Economy

Thermostat Recycling Corporation Increases Awareness and Participation

Do you recycle? Are you interested in recycling? Questions like these encouraged a wide variety of answers at the 2009 Ace Hardware Convention in Atlanta, Georgia this past weekend. The Thermostat Recycling Corporation (TRC) participated in this massive expo for Ace Hardware retailers with one goal in...

Published Fri, Oct 30 2009 12:45 PM by Bobby Bilicki

Filed under: Education and Training, recycling, thermostats

The Increasing Relevance of a Formerly Little-Noticed Agency

It has been nearly four years since enactment of the Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act of 2008 (CPSIA; Public Law 110-314), landmark legislation to enhance the authority and resources of the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), and nearly one year since enactment of HR 2715 (Public Law...

Published Tue, Jul 31 2012 8:22 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: CPSC, Consumer Protection, Public Database, Regulatory Reform, CPSIA, Product Safety

Texas Commission Reduces Safety Rules in Unincorporated Areas

On September 1, 2008, the Texas State Legislature passed House Bill 1038, which requires that residential construction, both new and remodel, completed by builders in unincorporated areas or in areas not subject to municipal inspections must have a minimum of three inspections conducted by a fee inspector...

Published Tue, Sep 30 2008 2:07 PM by Baclawski, Vince

Filed under: Electrical Safety

Labor Day 2009: Fate of EFCA

As our nation prepares to bid farewell to summer and celebrate Labor Day , now is the perfect time to take stock of where we are with respect to the so-called "Employee Free Choice Act" ( HR 1409 / S560 ), also known as EFCA or simply "card check." Americans don't want "card...

Published Wed, Sep 02 2009 9:46 AM by Owen, Sarah

Filed under: Card Check, EFCA

An Odd Situation Being Rectified

It happens frequently: a manufacturer has a newly designed electrical product for the U.S. market and submits it to a testing lab for safety certification. The manufacturer and the lab will both know the U.S. safety standard that covers the product submitted, and the lab proceeds to do its certification...

Published Tue, Oct 05 2010 9:28 PM by Winchester, Greg

Filed under: UPS

Correcting the Chamber on Certification

Every once in a while I get to spoil a party – which should be a part of every lobbyist’s job description. Just when it seems that everyone at some orchestrated event is fully in agreement, someone needs to be the one who ruins the good karma and says “But…” And so it was a few days ago at a grand 200...

Published Mon, May 12 2008 8:01 AM by Meakem, John

Filed under: Trade

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