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Wednesday, December 22, 2010

ECHA Issues "Last Call" for Chemical Classification and Labeling Notifications

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Have you notified your substance under the EU's Classification, Labeling and Packaging regulation (CLP)?  ECHA has issued a "last c...
Tuesday, December 21, 2010

ECHA Recommends 8 Substances of Very High Concern be Subject to Authorization

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While most attention has been on meeting registration deadlines and dealing with the new classification and labeling scheme, the European Ch...
Monday, December 20, 2010

US and Europe Agree to Share Chemical Data

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Last week the USEPA, which has responsibility for managing chemicals in the US, and ECHA, which does the same in the European Union, signed...
Thursday, December 16, 2010

Disclosure of Fracking Ingredients May Become More Transparent

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Fracking has been in the news a lot lately.  Especially for the questions surrounding the chemicals used in the process.  What is fracking, ...
Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Washington State Moves Forward on Children's Safe Chemical Rules in Lieu of TSCA Action

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I have mentioned previously here that with TSCA chemical reform trudging through Congress on the federal level, the States have continued to...
Tuesday, December 14, 2010

Inspector General Inquires into EPA's Voluntary Children's Chemical Evaluation Program

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The Voluntary Children’s Chemical Evaluation Program (VCCEP), which advocacy groups had criticized for years as ineffective and a "stal...
Monday, December 13, 2010

AGU Fall Meeting Attracts Nearly 20,000 Scientists

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It's December and if you're in San Francisco you might be one of the nearly 20,000 scientists attending the annual fall meeting of t...
Friday, December 10, 2010

ECHA Lets You Search REACH-Registered Substances - Is Your Chemical Legal?

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November 30th has passed and (hopefully) all of the chemical substances pre-registered at manufacture or import above 1000 tonnes per year h...
Thursday, December 9, 2010

US House Names Key Committee Chairs Affecting Climate Change Regulation

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With the Republican party becoming the majority in the US House of Representatives in last month's election, that means there will be ne...
Tuesday, December 7, 2010

EPA Publishes Alternative Assessment Criteria for Design for the Environment

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"EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) works in partnership with industry, environmental groups, and academia to reduce risk to ...
Monday, December 6, 2010

ECHA Will Add 8 Chemicals to its Substances of Very High Concern List

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Now that the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) has succeeded (mostly) in handling the thousands of substance registrations due by November 3...
Friday, December 3, 2010

EPA Brings to 1000 the Number of Chemicals Being Tested with ToxCast

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Perhaps lost in all the attention with the REACH deadline was an announcement last week by the USEPA that ToxCast screening program has ...
Thursday, December 2, 2010

Lisa Jackson Marks the 40-Year Anniversary of EPA

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Forty years ago, Americans across the nation took up a call for cleaner air, safer water and unpolluted land.  They saw that to keep o...
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Wednesday, December 1, 2010

The Final REACH Registration Numbers Are In - ECHA Reports Nearly 25,000 Registrations

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Yesterday (November 30, 2010) marked the first deadline for registration of chemicals under the European Registration, Evaluation, Authoriza...
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