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Sen. Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) on April 14 introduced once again a bill intended to overhaul the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976. Lautenberg, who chairs the Senate Environment and Public Works Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics, and Environmental Health, introduced a similar bill (S.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have posted a Joint Statement on Bed Bug Control in the United States. This document highlights emerging public health issues associated with bed bugs (Cimex lectularius) in communities throughout the United States.
WASHINGTON -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today proposed the 2011 percentage standards for the four fuels categories under the agency’s Renewable Fuel Standard program, known as RFS2.
U.S. Senator Frank R. Lautenberg, D-NJ, has announced legislation designed to overhaul the “Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976” (TSCA). Lautenberg, who chairs the Senate Subcommittee on Superfund, Toxics and Environmental Health, introduced on April 15th the “Safe Chemicals Act of 2010” (S.3209), a bill that he says would place the burden on industry to prove that chemicals are safe in order to stay in the market and require the safety testing of all industrial chemicals.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is proposing its strategy for increasing the supply of renewable fuels, poised to reach 36 billion gallons by 2022, as mandated by the Energy Independence and Security Act of 2007.
In a Federal Register notice published April 24, EPA Administrator, Lisa Jackson proposes to make the finding that greenhouse gases in the atmosphere endanger the public health and welfare of current and future generations. An endangerment finding would require EPA to issue emissions limits on six greenhouse gases—carbon dioxide, methane, nitrous oxide, hydrofluorocarbons, perfluorocarbons, and sulfur hexafluoride—from new and modified stationary sources, as well as mobile sources, such as cars and light trucks.
On April 21, EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson signed a final rule to reinstate stricter reporting requirements for industrial and federal facilities that release toxic substances that threaten human health and the environment.
In a Federal Register notice published April 15, EPA announced that a new RMP submission method, called RMP*eSubmit, should be used by facilities submitting their RMPs electronically beginning March 13, 2009. The new submission method will be On-line via EPA’s secure Web site. The new submission method is applicable to owners and operators of stationary sources subject to EPA’s Chemical Accident Prevention regulations. These regulations require covered entitites to submit RMPs on their processes in a method and format specified by EPA.
EPA is ready to release preliminary assessments of more than 80 chemicals produced in high or moderate volume and has identified some chemicals for which it may need rules to force manufacturers to conduct testing or collect data. EPA might need to issue a test rule for eight chemicals and a data-collection rule for another 10 chemicals.
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