Saline County Health Dept. Operating hours are Monday, Tuesday, Thursday and Friday 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m., and Wednesday 8:00 to 6:00 p.m. The County Commission and Employees wish to Welcome you to the County Website. Enjoy your tour of information and services provided to you by clicking on the Links to the left.
US, Canada jointly release crude-by-rail transportation rules. The US and Canada simultaneously issued new regulations governing transportation of crude oil and other hazardous materials by rail.
Crude oil is a mixture of many different kinds of organic compounds, many of which are highly toxic and cancer causing (carcinogenic). Oil is acutely lethal to fish-that is, it kills fish quickly, at a concentration of 4000 parts per million (ppm) (0.4%).n oil spill is the release of a liquid petroleum hydrocarbon into the environment, especially marine areas, due to human activity, and is a form of pollution.