Thursday, April 1, 2010

Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families Coalition Rallies Outside Industry Chemicals Conference in Baltimore

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A coalition called Safer Chemicals, Healthy Families rallied outside a hotel in Baltimore's Inner Harbor where chemical industry offici...
Wednesday, March 31, 2010

TSCA Bill to be Introduced, But Will it Pass?

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There seems to be a growing resignation among stakeholders that the long awaited reintroduction of the Kid Safe Chemical Act to update the o...
Monday, March 29, 2010

Is TSCA Chemical Control Reform Ever Going to Happen?

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Last year at this time Senator Lautenberg intimated that a new Kid Safe bill that reforms the 34 year old Toxic Substances Control Act was ...
Thursday, March 18, 2010

New "Natural Products" Certification

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The Natural Products Association, a Washington-based group representing manufacturers and retailers including Clorox Co. and Whole Foods Mar...

EPA Set to Post More Chemical Action Plans - Bisphenol A and Benzidine Dyes

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EPA appears to be taking seriously its commitment to produce "action plans" for chemicals it feels need to be more closely regulat...

GAO Report on Protecting Children from Environmental Threats - Senate Hearing

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As reported yesterday, the Senate held a hearing entitled " Hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s Investigation of EPA’s Ef...
Wednesday, March 17, 2010

Senator Barbara Boxer Hearing on Protecting Children's Health and TSCA

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Senator Barbara Boxer is holding a hearing today, March 17, 2010 entitled, " Hearing on the Government Accountability Office’s Investig...
Tuesday, March 16, 2010

In a Move Towards Transparency, EPA Makes the TSCA Inventory Freely Accessible to the Public

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I have mentioned the TSCA Inventory here many times. Well, now the EPA has announced that it is making the Inventory available to the publi...
Monday, March 15, 2010

European NGOs Press the European Commission for Action on PBTs, Candidate List and Authorization for REACH

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A group of NGOs have written to the European Commission in an attempt to prod them for progress on three key issues under the REACH regulati...
Sunday, March 14, 2010

European Chemicals Agency Proposes 8 New Chemicals as REACH Substances of Very High Concern (SVHCs)

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The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA), located in Helsinki, Finland, has published new proposals to classify eight chemicals as substances of...
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Friday, March 12, 2010

With TSCA Chemical Reform Almost Here - Will It Look Like the 2008 Kid Safe Chemical Act?

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In anticipation of Senator Lautenberg's reintroduction of the Kid Safe Chemical Act , it is perhaps instructive to go back and look at w...
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Environmental Ministers Meet in Parma to Declare Their Intent to Protect Children's Health

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Representatives of the 53 World Health Organization (WHO) Member States are meeting in Parma, Italy, this week to review the impact of natio...
Wednesday, March 10, 2010

Thoughts on the Final Senate Hearing on TSCA Chemical Control Reform

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Yes, I said the final hearing. This most certainly will be the end of the hearings, marking number 5 or 6 (I lost count) over the last year...
Tuesday, March 9, 2010

The LRTAP Convention Revealed...Plus Don't Forget Today's Senate Hearing on TSCA Chemical Control

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In continuing my series highlighting the three international agreements mentioned at last Thursday's House Subcommittee hearing on TSCA ...