The U.S. Department of Transportation will give $12.8 million to states, territories and Native American tribes for hazmat planning and training, the agency announced Oct. 1. The funds are being made ...

Denny Eisenhofer will tell you that safety isn’t everything when it comes to trucking hazardous materials. It is the only thing. Eisenhofer, a 30-plus year veteran of Reading, PA-based Textile ...

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Labelmaster announced Wednesday, Nov. 19, that it has teamed up with Instructional Technologies of Vancouver, Wash., to launch an online hazmat training program in the United States for professional ...

With the Department of Homeland Security now armed with temporary authority to regulate security at some of the nation's chemical plants, the Department of Transportation (DOT) has set its sights on ...

Click here to write a Letter to the Editor. he Transportation Department’s Research and Special Programs Administration designed its new hazardous materials transportation security planning and ...

Companies trucking large quantities of hazardous materials such as bulk diesel fuel and liquid asphalt cement are running out of time to update security policies to guard against terrorism. On Sept.

Maryland’s police and firefighters will continue to be among the best-prepared in the country to deal with hazardous materials incidents, thanks to a federal grant of more than $300,000 from the U.S.

According to a Monday morning news release, the funding is coming to the Mississippi Emergency Management Agency ($332,009) through the Hazardous Materials Emergency Preparedness Grant Program. MEMA ...

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