ENVIRONMENTAL TRAINING ONLINE
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Sample Course Descriptions:
This course is designed for environmental professionals who want to maximize their environmental compliance and ensure public safety in the workplace.
This course provides essential knowledge and understanding of EPA regulations relating to hazardous wastes such as the Clean Air Act (CAA), Clean Water Act (CWA), RCRA, EPCRA, TSCA and CERCLA.
The course will enable those who successfully complete the qualifications to implement updated environmental compliance programs at their facility.
Course has been developed for the Erosion Control Supervisor Responsible for the proper installation, maintenance and inspection of Best Management Practices (BMPs) for the control of erosion and sedimentation at construction sites.
This module contains information pertaining to the Clean Air Act. The Clean Air Act describes one of a number of pieces of legislation relating to the reduction of atmospheric pollution.
Learning Objectives
• Understand the Clean Air Acts of 1955, 1963, 1970, and 1990
• Describe the permit program
• Recognize the purposes of the CAA
• Describe how the CAA is protecting people
• Evaluate the New Source Review Program
• Explain the three types of permits
• List the changes implemented with the 1990 CAA Amendments
Course Objective:
This program outlines the range of "Green" possibilities available in Infrastructure. Special consideration has been given to urban variables, such as scale, age, and proximity. Consideration has also been given to the type of infrastructure work addressed in order to illustrate practices that promise the most benefits.
It is for those involved in Infrastructure planning, design, construction and maintenance. After completing this course you will be able to:
•Assess sites and identify opportunities to implement Best Management Practices (BMP’s)including soil testing, hydrologic analysis, vegetation assessment, and invasive species evaluation
•Have working knowledge of a template for design and implementation of Green Building concepts applicable to cities and municipalities.
•Understand pavement lifecycles, pervious vs. impervious pavement, albedo or reflectivity of pavement, pavement materials, devising a materials program, and different material applications.
•Understand mechanisms to affect right-of-way construction by private utilities, technology to minimize pavement damage and degradation, and the upgrades to utility installation and maintenance.
•Understand integrated stormwater management planning, water pollution prevention, construction runoff prevention, surface pre-treatments for filtering runoff, catch basin inserts and water quality inlets, detention and infiltration structures, and constructed wetlands.
•Understand construction practices such as site protection, plan development, protecting water sources and planted areas, developing waste management and recycling plans, and minimizing construction and recycling impacts.
Course Topics:
This program includes the following modules to give the student a complete overview of Green
Infrastructure Guidelines:
•Green Infrastructure 1: Introduction to High Performance Guidelines
•Green Infrastructure 2: Best Practices for Site Assessment
•Green Infrastructure 3: Best Practices for Streetscape
•Green Infrastructure 5: Best Practices for Utilities
•Green Infrastructure 6: Best Practices for Stormwater Management
•Green Infrastructure 7: Best Practices for Landscape
•Green Infrastructure 8: Best Practices for Construction Practices
Course Objective:
Green Building is rapidly becoming mainstream, mostly due to increasing environmental concerns, a desire to develop healthier structures and increasing regulation from permitting authorities. This course takes a close look at green building in relation to main aspects of design and construction, including issues dealing with sites, landscaping, foundations, frames, exterior finishes, plumbing, appliances, insulation, ventilation, windows, finishes, and flooring.
This course is particularly valuable to individuals who need an overview of Green Building as it relates to new residential construction. This includes fields such as construction worker or manager, realtor, house inspector, landscape architects, interior designer, HVAC specialist, facility manager, mechanical engineer and civil engineer.
Occupational Outlook:
Green jobs have been growing rapidly in the US. According to a recent report by the Pew Charitable Trust, green jobs have increased by over 9% a year since 2000, compared just 3% for the overall economy. This trend is expected to continue as spending on new green construction and on green renovation is expected to double over the next 5 years. Those whose jobs include building, maintaining or selling residential or commercial properties are well advised to get training on green techniques in order to be prepared for the changes that are coming.
Course Topics:
After completing this course you will be able to:
•Describe Green Building principles and practices
•Discuss Green Energy Management and Optimization
•Explain Sustainable Design concepts
•Implement Green Building Design Principles
•Describe Green Construction techniques
•Choose Certification options for both individuals and the organization
This course concludes with information on testing, certification, and accreditation, including a look at the LEED program and the NAHB Green Home Certification Program.
City of Miami will provide green job training through EPA brownfields grants
Source: US EPA - Environmental Protection Agency
Aug. 7, 2009
EPA has selected the City of Miami, Fla. to receive $500,000 in grant funding to help train community members for jobs assessing and cleaning up brownfields sites. Funding for these grants is supported by the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009.
“This Recovery Act funding will train people for real jobs that help restore their neighborhoods,” said Stan Meiburg, EPA Acting Regional Administrator in Atlanta. “It will go a long way in protecting public health and the environment and providing economic benefits through cleanup and redevelopment of properties that have been sitting idle due to real or even perceived contamination.”
The Miami Brownfields Job Training Program will employ residents and facilitate the cleanup of brownfields by providing free “green job” training for 120 city residents over nine 16-week training cycles. Training will include brownfields assessment, remediation, and redevelopment and will prepare graduates for entry-level positions as asbestos inspectors and abatement workers, emergency spill response technicians, environmental technicians, field sampling technicians, HAZWOPER technicians, and OSHA safety inspectors.
Since 1998, EPA has awarded more than $25 million in brownfields job training funds. More than 5,000 people have completed EPA-funded training programs, with more than 3,250 obtaining employment in the environmental fields, earning an average wage of $13.81 per hour. EPA established the Brownfields Job Training Program to help residents take advantage of jobs created by the assessment, cleanup, and sustainable reuse of brownfields sites and to ensure that the economic benefits derived from brownfields redevelopment remain in the affected communities.
Brownfields are sites where expansion, redevelopment, or reuse may be complicated by the presence or potential presence of a hazardous substance, pollutant, or contaminant. In 2002, the Small Business Liability Relief and Brownfields Revitalization Act (Brownfields Law) was passed. The Brownfields Law expanded the definition of what is considered a brownfield, so communities may now focus on mine-scarred lands or sites contaminated by petroleum or the manufacture and distribution of illegal drugs. EPA’s Brownfields Program encourages redevelopment of America’s estimated 450,000 abandoned and contaminated waste sites.
President Obama signed the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 on February 17, 2009, and has directed that the Recovery Act be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability. To that end, the American people can see how every dollar is being invested at Recovery.gov.
States Served:
This is a list of environmental issues that are due to human activities. These articles relate to the anthropogenic effects on the natural environment.
Climate change — Global warming • Global dimming • Fossil fuels • Sea level rise • Greenhouse gas
Conservation — Species extinction • Pollinator decline • Coral bleaching • Holocene extinction event • Invasive species • Poaching • Endangered species
Dams — Environmental impacts of dams
Energy — Energy conservation • Renewable energy • Efficient energy use • Renewable energy commercialization
Genetic engineering — Genetic pollution • Genetically modified food controversies
Intensive farming — Overgrazing • Irrigation • Monoculture • Environmental effects of meat production
Land degradation — Land pollution • Desertification
Soil — Soil conservation • Soil erosion • Soil contamination • Soil salination
Land use — Urban sprawl • Habitat fragmentation • Habitat destruction
Nanotechnology — Nanotoxicology • Nanopollution
Nuclear issues — Nuclear fallout • Nuclear meltdown • Nuclear power • Radioactive waste
Overpopulation — Burial
Ozone depletion — CFC
Pollution — Light pollution • Noise pollution • Visual pollution
Water pollution — Acid rain • Eutrophication • Marine pollution • Ocean dumping • Oil spills • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Water crisis • Marine debris • Ocean acidification • Ship pollution • Thermal pollution • Urban runoff • Wastewater
Air pollution — Smog • Tropospheric ozone • Indoor air quality • Volatile organic compound • Particulate matter • Sulphur oxide
Resource depletion — Exploitation of natural resources
Consumerism — Consumer capitalism • Planned obsolescence • Over-consumption
Fishing — Blast fishing • Bottom trawling • Cyanide fishing • Ghost nets • Illegal, unreported and unregulated fishing • Overfishing • Shark finning • Whaling
Logging — Clearcutting • Deforestation • Illegal logging
Mining — Acid mine drainage • Mountaintop removal mining • Slurry impoundments
Toxins — Chlorofluorocarbons • DDT • Endocrine disruptors • Dioxin • Heavy metals • Herbicides • Pesticides • Toxic waste • PCB • Bioaccumulation • Biomagnification
Waste — E-waste • Litter • Waste disposal incidents • Marine debris • Landfill • Leachate • Recycling • Incineration
