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TRUCKING INDUSTRY NEWS * USA: Hazardous materials
* Las Vegas - Toxic cargo ahead
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Las Vegas,NV,USA -Las Vegas Sunday, by Jack Chapell -July 13, 2014: ... Transportation by truck, train or pipeline of hazardous materials that can poison us, gas us, burn us and blow us to bits is such a part of everyday life it goes largely unseen and unrecognized. But there’s an ever-present threat in the valley created by transporting dangerous things in a maze of pipelines, rail lines and roads. An estimated 2 percent of the truck traffic on Las Vegas’ highways is hauling hazmat cargo... It’s 8 a.m., and the gates swing open to the Nevada Highway Patrol’s I-15 check station in Sloan, 10 miles south of Las Vegas... It’s a bare-bones steel overhead shelter and asphalt pad about the size of two football fields. The roof covers three lanes where troopers and civilian inspectors of the NHP Commercial Enforcement Branch soon will begin checking trucks heading into Las Vegas. In the summer, temperatures can top 115 degrees... Yearly, some 125,000 trucks haul 2.7 million tons of hazardous cargo to, through and from Clark County, according to a 2008 report used by the Clark County Hazardous Materials Response Plan. The majority of the hazmat traffic runs along I-15. A third of all the tonnage involves flammable gas. Flammable liquids come second, with explosives shipped least often... Environmental engineering philosophy talks about “the triple bottom line:” private benefits and costs, social costs and the environment. Today’s environmental engineers strive to build processes and products that minimize adverse impacts and stress efficiency and sustainability, said UNLV professor Helen Neill, an expert in environmental economics, management, economic valuation and risk...
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