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Continuing EPA Emergency Response Support
We’re proud to announce that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region Six recently awarded the Superfund Technical Assessment & Response Team (START) contract to the Weston Solutions, Inc. (Weston) team. CSS has supported the START program nationwide since 2005 and START Region Six as a prime contractor (2006-2016) and subsequently as a subcontractor to Weston. Our technical support includes Hazard Ranking System evaluations, preliminary assessments and site inspections, site investigations, emergency response, oil spill response, removal actions, technical and quality assurance editing, laboratory procurement and data validation. We couldn’t be more excited to continue to support this contract!
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Assessing Methylene Chloride Levels in Laboratories
CSS employee owners supporting the University of Kentucky have started sampling campus laboratories with high use of methylene chloride to assess levels of employee exposure. This effort is in response to the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issuing methylene chloride regulations under Section 6(a) of the Toxic Substance Control Act in the Federal Register on May…
CSS Receives 10-year Renewal of the NIEHS National Toxicology Program QA Contract
CSS is pleased to announce that we have received a 10-year renewal for our contract with National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) National Toxicology Program Quality Assurance. For 40 years, CSS employee owners have been providing quality assurance reviews for the NIEHS National Toxicology Program identifying inconsistencies and safeguarding data integrity across large-scale toxicology…
Discovering the Urchin Killer
A diver collects a long-spined sea urchin. Credit: Blake Gardner Our employee owners were recently part of a team of detectives on a mission to discover the killer of long-spined sea urchins, Diadema antillarumy, throughout the Caribbean Sea. The infected urchins lose their spines, leaving them more vulnerable to predation or dying after a few…