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The new business of nanotechnology and risks
There is an Alice-in-Wonderland awe associated with nanotechnology. While the technology is both exciting and hopeful for many good reasons, for businesses, and the lawyers who counsel them, the lack of certainty in areas involving potential risk is unsettling. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is only now beginning to think through how best to apply the authority it has under the traditional environmental statutes, and to adopt regulatory programs and policies to address the potential ... |
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New Jersey, the newest EU member state?: Adoption of the EU RoHS Directive
Perhaps it came as no huge surprise when California adopted the EU`s RoHS Directive in 2003 applicable to video display devices because California is typically on the leading edge of adopting innovative environmental requirements. But now that the past year has seen California expanding the list products subject to RoHS restrictions and New Jersey incorporating the EU RoHS Directive into its laws, it is clear that a novel trend is developing. Interestingly the US states are not adopting RoHS-like ... |
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- Workplace fatalities
An increase in workplace fatalities, like the untimely deaths of a crane operator and construction worker in New York’s lower-east side (May 2008), reinforces ...
- Food and Drug Administration`s regulation of nanotechnology
The Food and Drug Administration is considering further implementation of the recommendations made by its Nanotechnology Task Force in July 2007. The ...
- Legal lookout: Court sides with EPA on MACT
On June 6, 2008, the US Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia denied the Natural Resources Defense Council`s (NRDC) petition for review of EPA`s ...
- Food safety - in everyone’s interests
In the UK today, there had never been such intense scrutiny of the food we eat, where it came from, how it got there, how it was packaged, prepared, cooked ...
- Beyond RoHS: toward prohibition of a wider band of substances in a larger pool of consumer products
While Europe’s WEEE and RoHS directives are being picked up by other countries around the world, in Europe itself, moves are afoot to dramatically expand ...
- Launch of online environmental compliance resource for universities and colleges
The National Association of College and University Business Officers (NACUBO) have announced the launch of a new web-based compliance centre called CampusERC ...
- REACH urgency
Half of the non-chemical supplier companies doing business in Europe will be shut out of that market next January 1st.
Are you one of them?
According ...
- InfoWorks RS and FloodWorks: the evolving story
InfoWorks RS was launched in 2002 as the successor to the highly-successful ISIS river modeling software. Sales Manager, Tyrone Parkinson, explains: “Customers ...
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