Testing
06/19/13 - The California Environmental Protection Agency (Cal/EPA) and the Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) announced the availability of the California Communities Environmental Health Screening Tool, Version 1 (CalEnviroScreen 1.0)...
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TSCA
06/18/13 - Stakeholders from throughout the international chemical industry gathered for the 2013 GlobalChem Conference in National Harbor, MD, earlier this year to discuss key chemical policy issues. EPA making use of existing Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) authority as legislative efforts evolve was an overreaching theme for the event that drew a crowd of about 500, making it among the largest ever held....
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TSCA
06/11/13 - On May 22 Senators Frank Lautenberg (D-New Jersey), David Vitter (R-Louisiana) and 18 co-authors introduced the Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013 (CSIA); the first major bipartisan effort to modernize the 1976 Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA)....
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Legislative
06/07/13 - With the deadline on May 31, for bills to get through committees in the house that they were introduced in and then sent on to the other chamber, several appear to have not made it....
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Legislative
06/07/13 - The state Assembly on May 24 passed legislation that will give some businesses targeted by a Proposition 65 notice-of-violation an opportunity to cure the problem thereby blocking any subsequent lawsuit....
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Litigation
06/07/13 - The Attorney General's office has filed suit against several manufacturers, distributors, and retailers of Asian plum and ginger candies alleging that the defendants failed to provide Proposition 65 warnings of lead contained in the candies....
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Legislative
06/06/13 - Assemblyman Mike Gatto's (D-Silver Lake) bill, AB 227, that would protect businesses against "shakedown lawsuits," has sailed through the state Assembly last month on a unanimous vote....
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Federal/Other States Litigation
06/06/13 - The chemical industry has lost a bid to get styrene, a component of the air in Louisville for decades, removed from an important list of substances deemed to be "reasonably anticipated" to cause cancer....
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Studies
06/06/13 - A scientific research study four years in the making and just released in the US spells a major windfall for Sri Lanka's cinnamon industry. ...
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US EPA
06/06/13 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed two rules last week to help protect Americans from exposure to the harmful chemical formaldehyde, consistent with a Federal law unanimously passed by Congress in 2010....
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