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EPA makes chemical information more accessible to public
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s strong commitment to increase information on chemicals, for the first time, EPA is providing web access, free of charge, to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Substance Inventory. This inventory contains a consolidated list of thousands of industrial chemicals maintained by the agency. EPA is also making this information available on ...
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EC publishes new fees and charges for REACH registration
The fees and charges that will be charged for registration, evaluation and authorisation of chemicals under the new REACH registration procedures have been published yesterday in the Official Journal. The fees and charges will apply with the start of registrations of chemical substances on 1st June 2008 (IP/08/564). The basic registration fee will range from EUR 1,600 for substances produced in ...
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EPA Increases Access to Chemical Information
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has posted additional data and added new functions to ChemView, EPA’s publicly-accessible, one-stop online tool to find information for chemicals regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). “In the absence of TSCA reform, EPA is moving ahead to improve access to chemical health and safety information, and increase the ...
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EPA proposes rule to require electronic reporting for chemical information
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a proposed rule to require electronic reporting for certain information submitted to the agency under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA).The action is an important milestone in the agency’s effort to increase transparency and public access to chemical information in order to help Americans protect their health and ...
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EPA provides public with Easier access to chemical information (HQ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has introduced a new web-based tool that will enable the public to search for and have easy access to health and safety studies on industrial chemicals. As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s continued efforts to enhance EPA's chemical management program and increase transparency, the chemical data access tool allows users to conduct a ...
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EPA increases transparency on chemical risk information
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced a new policy to increase the public’s access to information on chemicals. The EPA has announced its intention to reject a certain type of confidentiality claim, known as Confidential Business Information (CBI), on the identity of ...
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EPA expands list of safer chemical ingredients
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) today added more than 130 chemicals to its Safer Chemical Ingredients List. For the first time, 119 fragrance chemicals for commercial and consumer cleaning products have been added to the list. “Fragrances are an important yet complex part of many consumer cleaning products. By adding fragrance and other chemicals to the Safer Chemical ...
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EPA adds more than 6,300 chemicals and 3,800 chemical facilities to public database unprecedented access provided for the first time
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to increase public access to information on chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has added more than 6,300 chemicals and 3,800 chemical facilities regulated under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) to a public database called Envirofacts. “The addition to Envirofacts will provide the American people with ...
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EPA removes confidentiality claims for more than 150 chemicals / part of continuing effort to protect Americans’ health by increasing access to chemical information
In order to ensure the public has as much information as possible about the health and the environmental impacts of chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made public the identities of more than 150 chemicals contained in 104 health and safety studies that had been claimed confidential by industry. Today’s announcement is another in a series of unprecedented actions that ...
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EPA removes confidentiality claims on studies of chemicals submitted under TSCA / action part of ongoing commitment to transparency
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has notified five companies that the identities of 14 chemicals associated with a number of health and safety studies submitted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) and claimed as confidential are not eligible for confidential treatment. The action comes as part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s continued efforts to increase public access ...
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EPA improves access to information on hundreds of chemicals / searchable databases on chemical toxicity and exposure data now available
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is making it easier to find data about chemicals. EPA is releasing two databases — the Toxicity Forecaster database (ToxCastDB) and a database of chemical exposure studies (ExpoCastDB) — that scientists and the public can use to access chemical toxicity and exposure data. Improved access supports EPA Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s ...
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Cority Enviance SDS Vault Wins 2020 New Product of the Year Award from Environmental Protection
Cority, the most trusted provider of environmental, health, safety, and quality (EHSQ) software today announced its SDS Vault solution has received Environmental Protection’s 2020 New Product of the Year award in the Software/SaaS category. Now in its 11th year, the Environmental Protection New Product of the Year award honors the outstanding achievements of industry manufacturers whose ...
By Cority
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EPA Requires Health & Environmental Information on 19 Chemicals
EMSL Analytical provides environmental testing services to chemical manufacturers to help them comply with Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) requirements. Cinnaminson, NJ, January 6th, 2011 High production volume (HPV) chemicals are those chemicals produced in, or imported to, the United States in quantities of 1 million pounds or more each year. Several years ago the EPA launched the ...
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EPA web tool expands access to scientific, regulatory information on chemicals
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has launched a web-based tool, called ChemView, to significantly improve access to chemical specific regulatory information developed by EPA and data submitted under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). “This online tool will improve access to chemical health and safety information, increase public dialogue and awareness, and help viewers ...
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EPA announces new tool to promote safer chemicals and products
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has announced new criteria to help companies and other groups, such as states and environmental organizations, identify safer chemicals. As part of the agency’s Design for the Environment (DfE) program, EPA unveiled the new criteria which ...
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EPA Promotes Safer Chemicals and Products with a New Alternatives Assessments Tool
As part of Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s commitment to strengthen and reform chemical management, the U.S. EPA has announced new criteria to help companies and other groups, such as states and environmental organizations, identify safer chemicals. As part of the agency’s Design for the Environment (DfE) program, EPA unveiled the new criteria which are an important tool under its DfE ...
By HSI
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VelocityEHS Simplifies Complex Chemical Hazard Communication Compliance with its Expanded Regulatory Consulting Services
VelocityEHS, the leading cloud environment, health, safety (EHS) and sustainability software provider, today announced it is expanding its MSDSonline Regulatory Consulting Services to help EHS professionals better understand, and more effectively meet, their global hazard communication and chemical safety regulatory requirements. Intended for businesses that lack sufficient resources or ...
By VelocityEHS
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Senate and house TSCA reform legislation released today
Today Senator Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) released the text of the Safe Chemicals Act of 2010, which is intended to address the “core failings” of TSCA. Representatives Bobby Rush (D-IL) and Henry Waxman (D-CA) released a discussion draft of their legislation, the Toxics Chemicals Safety Act of 2010, and announced an aggressive schedule that seeks to complete action by “mid-summer.” Lautenberg’s ...
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EPA’s FY 2012 budget proposal reflects tough choices needed for the nation’s fiscal health
The Obama Administration today proposed a FY 2012 budget of $8.973 billion for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA). This proposal reflects President Obama’s commitment to ensuring the government lives within its means while ensuring that EPA can carry out its core mission: protecting public health and our environment while reducing air and water pollution in communities across ...
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Proposed rules on chemicals of concern, chemical identity pulled from OMB Review
The Environmental Protection Agency has withdrawn a proposed rule that would have established a chemicals of concern list and another proposed rule that would have required manufacturers to disclose the identity of chemicals they would like to make or sell in the United States. EPA withdrew the proposed rules from the Office of Management and Budget, where they were under review, because the ...
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