Tag: chemical
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November 27, 2009 12:49 PM EST --
The Senate has announced that it will hold a joint hearing of both the full committee and subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health next Wednesday, December 2, 2009. This is part of . . .
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April 12, 2009 06:14 PM EDT --
Sure, we all know what is in Windex. Right? Isopropanol, 2-Butoxyethanol, Ethylene glycol n-hexyl ether, Water, and Ammonia. Well, now you can go to a new web site set up by S.C. Johnson & Son Inc. . . .
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November 17, 2009 03:35 AM EST --
The Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer Protection will hold a hearing today, Tuesday, November 17, 2009 entitled, "Prioritizing Chemicals for Safety . . .
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October 08, 2008 09:10 PM EDT --
Got this in an e-mail from a co-worker
Subject: RETIRED
RETIRED WITH A JOB TO DO
I've often been asked, 'What do you old folks do now . . .
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November 04, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
As Senator Lautenberg prepares to introduce chemical control reform legislation in the US, possibly as early as this month, some in the auto industry are worried that they will be severely impacted. . . .
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November 18, 2009 01:17 PM EST --
As I noted yesterday , the House held a hearing on November 17th, 2009 to discuss prioritization of chemicals for control in the United States. This is part of the process for introducing a reform . . .
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November 24, 2009 07:37 AM EST --
Today I continue with the testimony of the final witness present at the November 17, 2009 Congressional hearings on "Prioritizing Chemicals for Safety Determination." Earlier I gave an overall summary . . .
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February 02, 2008 10:31 AM EST --
On June 1, 2007 a new chemical control law went into force in Europe. It is popularly called REACH, which is an acronym for Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals (there is also . . .
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April 16, 2007 09:24 AM EDT --
Every spring, Matt and I put a lot of effort into our gardens, plants and landscaping. I have been doing a lot of research over the last few years to find ways to garden more economically and in . . .
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January 03, 2008 04:05 PM EST --
Surgery andOther Rants
As some of you know, I had surgery on New Years Eve.
What I had done was neurological microsurgery . . .
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February 17, 2008 01:58 PM EST --
On August 21, 2007 the leaders of the three nations of North America (US President Bush, Canadian Prime Minister Stephen Harper, and Mexican President Felipe Calderon) announced that their respective . . .
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October 16, 2007 12:54 PM EDT --
Concerned about chemical exposures? Then it’s time to mothball those, er, mothballs. In early 2005, the government listed naphthalene, the primary ingredient in mothballs, as a carcinogen. To keep . . .
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November 14, 2008 03:27 PM EST --
By BARRY SHLACHTER -- Almost everything in Jennifer Lipscomb’s shopping cart was once organic, but no more.
Why?
"The cost," said Lipscomb, of Fort Worth, who recently shopped at Central . . .
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February 28, 2009 09:43 AM EST --
I have noted previously that there is a big push in this Congress to take a long hard look at the current chemical control regulations in the United States . Well, on Thursday, February 26, 2009 the . . .
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October 11, 2009 09:53 AM EDT --
Administrator Jackson, with a small entourage that included Steve Owens, the new Assistant Administrator for the Office of Prevention, Pesticides, and Toxic Substances, participated in a forum this . . .
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October 26, 2009 10:03 AM EDT --
Representatives from the chemical industry are calling for a more formal process for the development of a new chemical regulation policy in the United States. As reported here previously, the US Congress . . .
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November 19, 2009 02:53 PM EST --
Yesterday I gave an overall summary of the November 17, 2009 Congressional hearings regarding TSCA chemical control modernization in the House. The Subcommittee on Commerce, Trade, and Consumer . . .
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April 19, 2009 12:39 PM EDT --
Margot Wallström is European Commission vice-president and the force behind the development and passage of the European Union's Registration, Evaluation and Authorization of Chemicals (REACH) regulation. . . .
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June 21, 2009 07:04 AM EDT --
EPA sources report that the Obama administration and EPA leadership are shutting down EPA's Chemical Assessment and Management Program (ChAMP). ChAMP was initiated as a mechanism to implement the Montebello . . .
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June 22, 2009 09:27 AM EDT --
As noted yesterday , the Obama EPA has decided to suspend its voluntary Chemical Assessment & Management Program (ChAMP). The news came as a bit of a shock to most policy watchers, both on the . . .
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