Environmental Toxicology News
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Penn Medicine Receives Superfund Research Program Award of $10 Million to Study the Adverse Health Effects and Remediation of Asbestos
Researchers at the Center of Excellence in Environmental Toxicology (CEET), Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, have been awarded a $10 million grant from the National Institute for Environmental Health Sciences (NIEHS) over the next four years to study asbestos exposure pathways that lead to mesothelioma, the bioremediation of this hazardous material, and mechanisms ...
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Democratic Minority Circulates Redline of April 22, 2014, CICA Discussion Draft
The Democratic Minority has circulated a redline version of the April 22, 2014, discussion draft of the Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA2). A copy of the redline version of CICA2 is available online. The redline version is an interesting mix of substantial rewrites, deletions, and additions. The redline version, which we will refer to as CICA2-D to distinguish it from CICA2 and the original ...
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Democratic Minority Circulates Redline of April 22, 2014, CICA Discussion Draft
The Democratic Minority has circulated a redline version of the April 22, 2014, discussion draft of the Chemicals in Commerce Act (CICA2). A copy of the redline version of CICA2 is available online. The redline version is an interesting mix of substantial rewrites, deletions, and additions. The redline version, which we will refer to as CICA2-D to distinguish it from CICA2 and the original ...
By Acta Group
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Court Rules against Homeowners in Toxic Water Case
The Supreme Court ruled Monday that a group of homeowners in North Carolina can't sue a company that contaminated their drinking water decades ago because a state deadline has lapsed, a decision that could prevent thousands of other property owners in similar cases from recovering damages after being exposed to toxic waste. In a 7-2 decision, the justices said state law strictly bars any lawsuit ...
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Feds Say it Could Take 2 Years to Seal Nuke Dump
It could take two years or more for the federal government to seal off hundreds of potentially dangerous containers at its troubled underground nuclear waste dump in southeastern New Mexico, the U.S. Department of Energy said in a filing Friday. Responding to an order from the New Mexico Environment Department to detail its plans, the department gave broad ranges that indicate it could take a ...
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EPA Awards $400,000 in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in Mobile, AL
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award the City of Mobile with brownfield grants for new investments to provide funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public health by helping communities ...
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EPA Awards $1.5 Million in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in South Carolina
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award two communities in South Carolina with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public ...
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EPA Awards a $200,000 Cleanup Grant to the City of St. Marks, FL
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award the City of St. Marks with a brownfields cleanup grant for new investments to provide funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public health by helping ...
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EPA Awards Nearly $2 Million in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in Mississippi
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award two communities in Mississippi with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public ...
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EPA Awards $1 Million in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in Kentucky
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award two communities in Kentucky with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public health ...
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EPA Awards $400,000 in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in Georgia
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award two communities in Georgia with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public health ...
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EPA Selects 171 Communities for New Brownfield Investment Grants to Boost Local Economies, Leverage Job Creation
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that 171 communities will receive 264 grants totaling $67 million in brownfields funding to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and leverage jobs while protecting public health and the environment. The FY14 Brownfields Assessment, Revolving Loan Fund, and Cleanup (ARC) grants will give communities and ...
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EPA Awards $400,000 in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in Campbell County, TN
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award Campbell County with brownfield grants for new investments to provide funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public health by helping communities clean ...
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EPA Awards $400,000 to Central Florida Regional Planning Council to Help Cleanup and Reuse Brownfields Sites
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award the Central Florida Regional Planning Council (CFRPC) with brownfield grants for new investments to provide funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public ...
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EPA Awards $4 Million in Brownfields Grants to Cleanup and Revitalize Communities in North Carolina
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced today that it plans to award two communities in North Carolina with brownfields grants for new investments to provide communities with funding necessary to clean and redevelop contaminated properties, boost local economies and create jobs while protecting human health. “Not only are these funds protecting the environment and public ...
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EU-U.S. Trade Agreement Must Base Policies on Risk to Comply With WTO, CropLife Says
U.S. and European officials negotiating the Transatlantic Trade and Investment Partnership (TTIP) agreement must ensure regulations on both sides of the Atlantic are based on the actual risks products pose, not just hazards they might cause, a senior trade adviser said. If pesticides were regulated solely on their hazards, the benefits they pose by killing poisonous plants, for example, would be ...
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Spatial Assessment and Ranking Of Relevant Environmental Contaminants
A risk-based tool built using multi-criteria decision analysis has been developed to rank environmental contaminants, giving each a level of concern. It can be used by decisionmakers to prioritise areas for further assessments, based on expected human health impacts. The range of toxic substances and the types of diseases they could lead to presents a significant challenge to decisionmakers ...
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California Approves Expansion of Toxic Waste Site
Residents of a small California farming community who have worried for years about the health effects of a hazardous waste landfill learned Wednesday that the state has cleared the way for it to expand. Rather than scaling back the Kettleman Hills landfill, as residents had demanded, state officials announced the approval of a plan for the operator to increase what is already the largest toxic ...
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Cleaner air could mean higher electric bills
Electricity prices are probably on their way up across much of the U.S. as coal-fired plants, the dominant source of cheap power, shut down in response to environmental regulations and economic forces. New and tighter pollution rules and tough competition from cleaner sources such as natural gas, wind and solar will lead to the closings of dozens of coal-burning plants across 20 states over ...
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J. Brian Xu, M.D., Ph.D., D.A.B.T., Joins Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. and The Acta Group as Toxicologist
Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®) and The Acta Group (Acta) are pleased to announce the addition of Brian Xu, Ph.D., to our firms. Dr. Xu, a board-certified toxicologist and medical doctor, will assist clients in developing and managing international projects involving U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulated consumer products, ...
By Acta Group
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