Friday, August 12, 2011

EPA Seeks Public Comment on Industry Petition for Guidance on Endocrine Disruptor Chemicals

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The USEPA on August 10, 2011 published a notice in the Federal Register "seeking public comment on a June 21, 2011 petition" from ...
Thursday, August 11, 2011

States Pick Up the Slack - Pass Chemical Laws While Federal TSCA Reform Goes Nowhere

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According to an article in the online publication, Sustainable Business News , nine states "passed legislation to protect the public fr...
Wednesday, August 10, 2011

EPA's Design for the Environment (DfE) Issues Final Alternatives Assessment Criteria

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The USEPA Office of Pollution Prevention and Toxics has released its final alternatives assessment criteria for evaluating human and environ...
Tuesday, August 9, 2011

Women in STEM: A Gender Gap to Innovation - New Report Suggests Women in Science Still Make Less Money than Men

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A new report concludes that women in science still make less money than their male counterparts, though that "gender wage gap" was...
Monday, August 8, 2011

EPA Issues Draft Scientific Integrity Policy

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The USEPA has issued a draft scientific integrity policy, following similar documents by NOAA and the Department of the Interior , and in re...
Thursday, August 4, 2011

Cadmium to be Added to Priority Testing List Under Toxic Substances Control Act

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The TSCA InterAgency Testing Committee (ITC) has added cadmium and 103 other cadmium compounds to the Priority Testing List.  The action cam...
Wednesday, August 3, 2011

Washington State Adopts Children's Safe Product Rule to Control Chemicals of Concern to Children

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Washington State has adopted a new rule implementing the state's 3-year old Children's Safe Product Act law.  Amongst other things, ...
Tuesday, August 2, 2011

EPA Issues its IUR Rule - Sets New Submission Period!

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Several weeks ago I noted that OMB had finally finished its review of the Inventory Update Rule (IUR), and today EPA announced that publish...
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Monday, August 1, 2011

Canada to Ban Four Categories of Chemicals

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Canada issued a proposed regulation in the Canada Gazette on July 23, 2011 designed to essentially ban four groups of chemicals.  According...
Friday, July 29, 2011

NOAA Issues Draft Scientific Integrity Policy for Public Comment

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The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) has issued a draft scientific integrity policy for public comment.  It joins a si...
Thursday, July 28, 2011

Environmental and Health Organizations Say "Fully Fund the National Children's Study"

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A group of national and state environmental and health organizations have written a letter to the Senate and House Committees on Appropriat...
Wednesday, July 27, 2011

EPA Gives Advance Notice - Wants Input on Whether to Require Toxicity Testing on Bisphenol A

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The USEPA is considering a rulemaking in which they would require additional toxicity testing on bisphenol-A, known commonly as BPA.  Yester...
Monday, July 25, 2011

Inspector General Says Voluntary Children's Chemical Safety Program Failed to Protect Children

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As I noted back in December 2010, EPA's Inspector General's office had launched an inquiry into the Voluntary Children’s Chemical E...
Friday, July 22, 2011

Updated QSAR Tools Made Available to Assess Chemicals

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Quantitative Structure-Activity Relationships (QSAR) are computer based tools that allow the estimation of chemical properties and toxicity ...