Additions to POPs Treaty Considered

International environmental regulators have agreed to consider adding four new substances to the 2001 Stockholm Convention, an international treaty that bans or severely restricts 12 persistent organic pollutants (POPs). Negotiators will consider adding octabromodiphenyl ether, pentachlorobenzene, as well as alpha- and beta- hexachlorocyclohexane to the POPs treaty before the scheduled Stockholm Convention meeting in May...

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