Friday, August 20, 2010

HBCD - A Flame Retardant by Any Other Name

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As mentioned previously , EPA has issued three new "action plans" for chemicals that they believe need greater attention.  One of ...
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Thursday, August 19, 2010

Nonylphenols and Nonylphenol Ethoxylates - Why the EPA Action Plan?

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Yesterday I noted that three new action plans had been posted by EPA in their continuing efforts to deal with chemicals they believe are in ...
Wednesday, August 18, 2010

EPA Issues Three New Action Plans to Assess Flame Retardants, Dyes and NonylPhenols

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The USEPA posted on their web site three new "action plans" in their continuing efforts to "strengthen and reform chemical ma...
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Tuesday, August 17, 2010

California OEHHA to Hold Public Workshop on Green Chemistry

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As I noted last week , California EPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) issued a " pre-regulatory draft ...
Sunday, August 15, 2010

Nanomaterial Case Study: Nanoscale Silver in Disinfectant Spray

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According to a Federal Register notice published on Friday, August 13th, EPA is announcing the release of a draft document entitled “Nanomat...
Friday, August 13, 2010

EPA Proposes Changes to TSCA Reporting Requirements

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The move to strengthen TSCA, or at least the move to more fully utilize the current authority given to EPA under TSCA, took another step thi...
Thursday, August 12, 2010

California Environmental Health Office Publishes Green Chemistry Hazard Traits

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Many people know that the state of California has been working on a "green chemistry" program, though it has struggled because of ...
Wednesday, August 11, 2010

Getting TSCA Chemical Reform Right - Are We Close?

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What’s important is that we do it right. With 96 percent of all manufactured goods touched by chemistry, any new law must protect public s...
Tuesday, August 10, 2010

With TSCA Chemical Reform Likely to be Pushed Off Until Next Year - What Happens Now?

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TSCA reform is dead.  Long live TSCA reform. Okay, maybe too melodramatic.  But it would seem that the chances of passing a TSCA bill anyt...
Monday, August 9, 2010

Summary highlights changes between discussion draft and the formally introduced House TSCA chemical control reform bill

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The recently released TSCA reform bill in the house has garnered a lackadaisical response from most stakeholders.  Sure, there have been sta...
Saturday, August 7, 2010

New design for The Dake Page

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Okay, I'm working on a new design template for The Dake Page.  See, for example, the link tools below. You can email the article to so...
Friday, August 6, 2010

Chemical Insecurity? USPIRG seems to think so in new report

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The U.S. Public Interest Research Group has been around for a long time, though perhaps doesn't roll off the tongue (or garner as much ...
Thursday, August 5, 2010

EPA test results show eight oil dispersants are all about the same toxicity

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Soon after the Deepwater Horizon rig exploded into flames and sunk more than three months ago, a chemical called Corexit 9500A was used to d...
Wednesday, August 4, 2010

EPA Moves Forward with Chemical Action Plans

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Last fall EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson and OPPTS chief Steve Owens promised that while Congress debated TSCA reform, the EPA would move fo...