Friday, February 26, 2010

House Hearing on TSCA Chemical Control March 4th

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The House of Representatives Energy and Commerce Committee’s Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection has announced it will ...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Are "Chemicals of Concern" Lists Really Blacklists for Chemicals?

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As the TSCA reform process moves in fits and starts, with serious questions being raised recently because of the poor health of its major sp...
Wednesday, February 24, 2010

State of Maine Adopts Regulations to Protect Public from Chemicals

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As noted previously , the individual states are acting in the absence of a new federal level reform to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSC...
Tuesday, February 23, 2010

Inspector General Report Puts On More Pressure for TSCA Chemical Reform

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This past week the Office of the Inspector General, which is part of the USEPA, released a report called "EPA Needs a Coordinated Plan ...
Monday, February 22, 2010

USEPA Revising Enforceable Consent Agreement Procedures to Generate TSCA Chemical Test Data

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On Friday, February 19, 2010, EPA published in the Federal Register a proposed rule to revise the procedures for developing Enforceable Cons...
Friday, February 19, 2010

Senator Lautenberg Diagnosed with Stomach Cancer

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From the Associated Press TRENTON, N.J. -- The office of New Jersey Sen. Frank Lautenberg says the 86-year-old Democrat has stomach cancer. ...

Do Chemicals in the Body Pose a Risk?

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Biomonitoring studies routinely demonstrate that the human body has become a receptable for a variety of chemicals. Whether these are large...
Thursday, February 18, 2010

Book Review - Our Choice: A Plan to Solve the Climate Crisis, by Al Gore

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Climate change and sustainable energy seems to be one of the most polarizing issues on the planet right now, and Al Gore seems to be a focal...
Wednesday, February 17, 2010

Recession Delaying California Biomonitoring Program Implementation

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As people following this blog no doubt have noticed, biomonitoring seems to be playing a significant part in the discussions for reform of t...
Tuesday, February 16, 2010

Biomonitoring and TSCA Chemical Control Reform

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"Mind Disrupted" is a report recently released with the results of a biomonitoriting project sponsored by the Learning and Develop...
Monday, February 15, 2010

New EU Report Calls for Responsible Development of Nanotechnology

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One of the areas under discussion for TSCA reform in the United States is how to deal with nanotechnology. In short, nanomaterials are real...
Friday, February 12, 2010

"Grassroots" and Federal TSCA Chemical Reform

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Grassroots has become a bit of a tenuous term these days. It used to mean that local people got together and started pushing for or against...
Thursday, February 11, 2010

States, Regions, and Federals - The Conflicting Interests of TSCA Chemical Reform

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The perceived lack of teeth in the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) has led many US states to initiate their own state-level actions to r...
Wednesday, February 10, 2010

Industry Reaction to the Senate Hearing on TSCA Chemical Reform

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During the Senate hearing last week on reform of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), Senator Vitter noted that while they were not pres...