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On October 15, 2009, US EPA announced its intention to step up enforcement under the Clean Water Act. The Clean Water Action...


Tags: Clean Water Act, enforcement, Environment

By Kristin Watt On October 9, 2009

Nanomaterials in the EU

Click here to read a speech by the EU Commissioner for the Environment at the Stakeholder Conference on Nanomaterials held in...


Tags: Nanomaterials, REACH, Environment

The U.S. Department of Labor's Occupational Safety & Health Administration (OSHA) has proposed to amend its Hazard Communication...


Tags: Hazard Communication Standard, OSHA, Environment, GHS

President Obama signed an Executive Order yesterday "that sets sustainability goals for Federal agencies and focuses on making...


Tags: Environment, GHG

U.S. EPA TSCA Revisions Coming

U.S. EPA just announced core principles that outline the President’s goals for Congressional reform of the Toxic Substances...


Tags: TSCA, Environment

USEPA Nanomaterials Research Strategy

The US EPA just announced a new research strategy designed to generate information about the health and environmental risks of...


Tags: Nanomaterials, Environment

In the last three days the U.S. EPA has made two announcements to change its pesticides program. On September 30, 2009, they...


Tags: Pesticides, Environment

What is a Public Utility?
By Kristin Watt On September 14, 2009

What is a Public Utility?

In a case recently published, though decided in April, the Ohio Second District Court of Appeals Ohio in Englewood v. Miami...


Tags: Public Utility, Public, Energy, Utility

The European Chemicals Agency has today proposed to harmonize the classification and labeling of three chemical substances:...


Tags: EU, Environment

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has proposed 15 chemicals to be designated as Substances of Very High Concern (SVHC).  


Tags: EU, Environment

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