Gina McCarthy, USEPA’s assistant administrator for the Office of Air and Radiation, is a leading candidate to take EPA administrator Lisa Jackson’s place as EPA chief, Reuters reports. Jackson late last month announced she would not...
The city of Los Angeles will purchase 29 Sentinel Ultraviolet 48 UV reactors....
Voters in California have rejected Proposition 37, a ballot measure that aimed to require food manufacturers to label all foods containing more than 0.5% genetically modified (GM) ingredients. About 54% voted to oppose the labeling requirement, a sharp rise...
EPA says it has finalized plans to clean up contaminated soil, groundwater, and six waste-disposal areas at the American Cyanamid Superfund site at Bridgewater Township, NJ. The soil, groundwater, and waste-disposal areas are contaminated with volatile...
Cheryl Falvey, general counsel for the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC; Washington), will join the law firm Crowell & Moring (Washington) as a partner in the firm’s Torts Group and Products Risk Management practice, effective 1...
Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ; Bonn, Germany), a company owned by the federal government of Germany and that operates in many fields internationally, says it has withdrawn its offer to dispose of 350 m.t. of soil...
The U.S. EPA says it will use its existing authority under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to evaluate toxicity issues related to new and existing uses of certain flame retardants. EPA’s announcement follows a Senate hearing earlier this week...
Solvay has created Solvay Energy Services, a new business selling expertise within the group and to third parties to optimize energy costs and carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions. Solvay has described the formation of the new business as “the first concrete...
FMC has acquired the assets of Adventus Intellectual Property (Mississauga, Ontario), a an environmental technology and services company from investment firms Covington Capital and VentureLink Innovation Fund, the company says. Terms of the deal were not...
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