Friday, May 21, 2010

Should US Chemical Regulation Look Like REACH? Perhaps it is Already Happening

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Most in the United States agree that some form of TSCA Reform is necessary to allow EPA to better manage chemicals. On a macro-level their ...
Thursday, May 20, 2010

EPA Expands their Envirofacts Chemical Facilities Database

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In keeping with its new policy of transparency and providing access to the public of chemical information, the USEPA has expanded their Envi...
Monday, May 17, 2010

Book Review – The Climate Crisis by David Archer and Stefan Rahmstorf (2010)

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The IPCC AR4 report too technical for you? Want to learn about the climate change? Then this is a good book for you. “The Climate Crisis: An...

National Academies of Sciences to Release Three Climate Choices Reports

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The US National Academies of Sciences is planning to release on May 19, 2010 a series of three reports under the auspices of the America...
Saturday, May 15, 2010

First REACH Deadline Approaching Fast - Time to Panic?

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The REACH chemical control law in Europe has been in force for a couple of years now, but November 30, 2010 is the first big deadline for co...
Friday, May 14, 2010

Climate Crock of the Week

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I normally don't do promos, but I wanted to make a plug for a particular YouTube channel that has been very useful in educating the publ...

EU Coalition Argues that Regulations Help Innovation of New Chemicals

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Yesterday I suggested that regulation under the newly proposed Safe Chemicals Act in the United States would actually stimulate innovation a...
Thursday, May 13, 2010

Will TSCA Chemical Reform Hinder - or Help - Development of New Chemicals?

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As Congress and stakeholders debate whether the newly introduced Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 will get passed this year, the chemical industry...
Wednesday, May 12, 2010

EPA sends new chemical "action plans" to OMB for review

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EPA continues to try to make the "old TSCA" work while Congress and stakeholders work on developing a "new TSCA." The ...
Tuesday, May 11, 2010

Obama Sends Energy Secretary Chu to Monitor BP's Oil Spill Response

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In continuing his "all-hands-on-deck" response to BP's Deepwater Horizon oil spill, which is quickly reaching the spill record...
Monday, May 10, 2010

Companies Challenge ECHA Candidate Listings

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As I've reported in the past, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has been adding chemicals to "candidate lists" designating ...
Friday, May 7, 2010

EPA Working on List of Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals

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The Congressionally-mandated clock is ticking and EPA is hard at work trying to put together a list list of 100 chemicals to test for possib...
Wednesday, May 5, 2010

Two Ways to Reset Your Inventory - REACH vs Safe Chemicals Act

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As various stakeholders hold their stakes, i.e., hold out as long as they can for their positions on either end of the political and regulat...
Tuesday, May 4, 2010

New Safe Chemicals Act Mandates Reduced Animal Testing

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The new Safe Chemicals Act of 2010 (SCA), introduced recently by Senator Frank Lautenberg with a companion bill in the House, includes seve...
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