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October 25, 2010
The U.S. EPA has outlined five goals, including ensuring safe chemicals management and taking action on climate change, for its five-year plan for 2011-2016. The other goals are protecting water, advancing sustainable development and community clean-up, and enforcing environmental laws. The goals for climate change include reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions through energy efficiency and other measures....http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/EPA-to-Target-TSCA-Climate-in-Five-Year-Plan_30419.html October 25, 2010
Investment and environmental groups Green Century Funds (Boston) and As You Sow (San Francisco) have issued a consumer “report card” tallying food, beverage and retail companies’ commitment to phasing out bisphenol A (BPA). The “Seeking Safer Packaging 2010” report gives the highest scores to companies that have begun using BPA-free can lining for certain products and that have a timeline for eliminating BPA from all of its packaging products. Some of the largest corporations, including Coca-Cola, Del Monte, and Walmart, were among the lowest ranked firms because they “do not commit to phasing out the chemical, are not funding the exploration of substitutes, and fail to sufficiently disclose information about how they are addressing consumer concerns on the issue.”...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Report-More-Retailers-Move-to-Eliminate-BPA-But-Largest-Firms-Are-Among-the-Laggards_30422.html October 25, 2010
More than a dozen Senate Democrats have joined the call for EPA to revise air pollution regulations governing hazardous air pollutant emissions from industrial boilers, a requirement...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Democrats-Join-Push-for-Revisions-to-U-S-Boiler-MACT_30420.html October 12, 2010
A European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Brussels) advisory panel has concluded there is no scientific data to support revising its Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) level for bisphenol A (BPA) in food packaging. EFSA’s review of BPA examines studies conducted between 2007 and July 2010, and determines that those studies showing potential adverse health effects linked to BPA exposure in laboratory animals could not be considered valid due to methodological shortcomings. However, a minority opinion by one panel member states that the current TDI should be considered temporary and that more robust data is needed to reduce the uncertainties of the current TDI....http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/European-Officials-Reject-Bid-to-Revise-BPA-Standards_30127.html October 1, 2010
The European Food Safety Authority (EFSA; Brussels) has concluded it could not identify any new evidence that would lead it to revise the current Tolerable Daily Intake (TDI) for...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/European-Authorities-Will-Not-Revise-Bisphenol-A-Regulations_29910.html September 27, 2010
A Dow Chemical researcher is on EPA’s “short list” of potential panelists for an advisory committee to provide external expertise to EPA’s as it conducts a two-year study on...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Dow-Chemical-Researcher-Shortlisted-for-EPA-Fracking-Panel_29821.html September 23, 2010
A Dow Chemical researcher is on EPA’s “short list” of potential panelists for an advisory committee to provide external expertise to EPA’s as it conducts a...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Dow-Chemical-Researcher-Shortlisted-for-EPA-Fracking-Panel_29713.html September 13, 2010
U.S. EPA says it has asked nine natural gas services providers to voluntarily disclose data on chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing, or fracking. EPA says the data is integral to a broad scientific study now underway by the agency to determine whether hydraulic fracturing has an impact on water quality for residents living in the vicinity of hydraulic fracturing wells. EPA's voluntary submission request suggests that there could be legal consequences for those firms which do not cooperate, however....http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/EPA-Seeks-Hydraulic-Fracturing-Data-from-Gas-Services-Firms_29431.html September 13, 2010
Socma says it is asking Congress and the Obama Administration to “cease, for the remainder of the year, further consideration or advancement” of legislation, including the Toxic...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Socma-Halt-Legislative-TSCA-Deliberations-Until-After-Mid-term-Elections_29449.html September 13, 2010
New York officials will begin requiring manufacturers of cleaning products sold in the state to disclose product ingredients, according the Alexander Grannis, commissioner of New...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/New-York-Officials-to-Require-Cleaning-Product-Data-Disclosure_29450.html August 31, 2010
European Union member states Austria, Germany, and the Netherlands have proposed that 11 chemicals should be classified as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC) and become candidates...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Reach-Eleven-New-Substances-Proposed-for-ECHA-Candidate-List_29109.html August 30, 2010
Amvac says that EPA based the stop sale order on the grounds that the company did not identify trace impurities in the required “confidential statement of formula.” Amvac also says that EPA has known about the impurities for more than 20 years but only now is saying that those impurities may have toxicological significance....http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Amvac-Challenges-EPA-Stop-Sale-Order-for-Fungicide_29083.html August 30, 2010
ACC says EPA’s proposed technology-based standard for industrial boilers is flawed because it relies on faulty data related to emissions from the “best performing...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/ACC-EPA-Boiler-MACT-Rule-Relies-on-Flawed-Data_29085.html August 30, 2010
Research led by scientists from the Peninsula Medical School (Plymouth, U.K.) and the University of Exeter (Exeter, U.K.), in a study of 715 adults, has shown that exposure to...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/U-K-Study-Links-BPA-Lower-Testosterone-Concentrations_29089.html August 30, 2010
EPA has released action plans on benzidine dyes, hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), as well as nonylphenol (NP) and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), outlining proposed restrictions on the...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/EPA-Takes-Action-on-HBCD-NP_29090.html August 30, 2010
By Peter Hsiao, partner with law firm Morrison & Foerster (Los Angeles), and colleagues William F. Tarantino, and Andrea L. Tozer. In a highly anticipated new...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Update-on-Californias-Green-Chemistry-Requirements_29064.html August 30, 2010
American Vanguard (Amvac; Newport Beach, CA) says it has filed action in the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia seeking emergency and injunctive relief from a recent EPA...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Amvac-Challenges-EPA-Stop-Sale-Order-for-Fungicide_29079.html August 26, 2010
Research led by scientists from the Peninsula Medical School (Plymouth, U.K.) and the University of Exeter (Exeter, U.K.), in a study of 715 adults, has shown that exposure to...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/Study-Shows-BPA-Affects-Testosterone-Concentrations-in-Men_29039.html August 25, 2010
Chinese police have seized 227 m.t. of melamine-contaminated milk formula, according to information disseminated by RX-360 (Washington), a supply-chain organization. Police reportedly...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/New-Case-of-Melamine-Contaminated-Milk-Formula-Emerges-in-China_29010.html August 19, 2010
EPA today released action plans on benzidine dyes, hexabromocyclododecane (HBCD), as well as nonpylphenol (NP) and nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPEs), outlining proposed restrictions on...http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/toxics/EPA-Takes-Action-on-HBCD-and-Benzidine_28911.html |
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