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EPA Releases the Draft of 2007 Report on the Environment: Highlights of National Trends
The draft 2007 Report on the Environment (ROE): Highlights of National Trends (2007 ROE HD) was released today for public comment and independent review. First issued in 2003, the ROE is a plain, easy-to-understand guide that provides the average citizen a resource to follow national trends in the condition of the air, water, and land in the United States. The ROE is also part of EPA's ...
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EPA reports a successful year enforcing environmental law in Puerto Rico (PR)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today posted information illustrating its very successful past year in enforcing environmental law. In the past federal fiscal year, which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010, the Agency took actions that reduced pollution and ensured that environmental laws are being followed. In the past fiscal year, EPA took enforcement and compliance ...
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EPA promulgates final TSCA reporting and recordkeeping rule for nanoscale materials
After over a decade of effort, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued on January 12, 2017, a final rule under Section 8(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) establishing reporting and recordkeeping requirements for certain discrete forms of chemical substances that are manufactured or processed at the nanoscale. 82 Fed. Reg. 3641. Manufacturers and processers, or persons ...
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Coal company to improve wastewater systems
In a Clean Water Act settlement with the US Environmental Protection Agency, one of the nation's largest coal companies will spend an esitmated $200 million to control discharges from 79 mines and 25 processing plants in Kentucky, Pennsylvania, Tennessee, Virginia and West Virginia. EPA reports that Alpha Natural Resources and its subsidiaries will also pay a civil penalty of $27.5 million for ...
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EPA reports a successful year enforcing environmental law in U.S. Virgin Islands (VI)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today posted information illustrating its very successful past year in enforcing environmental law. In the past federal fiscal year, which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010, the Agency took actions that reduced pollution and ensured that environmental laws are being followed. In the past fiscal year, EPA took enforcement and compliance ...
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EPA reports a successful year enforcing environmental law in the state of New Jersey (NJ)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today posted information illustrating its very successful past year in enforcing environmental law. In the past federal fiscal year, which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010, the Agency took actions that reduced pollution and ensured that environmental laws are being followed. In the past fiscal year, EPA took enforcement and compliance ...
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EPA Reports to Congress on Underground Storage Tank Program in Indian Country
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has issued a report to Congress on implementation and enforcement of the underground storage tank program in Indian Country. The report describes the progress that tribes and EPA have made working together to prevent and clean up releases from underground storage tanks and discusses future challenges facing the program. EPA developed the report as required ...
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EPA reports a successful year enforcing environmental law in New York state (NY)
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency today posted information illustrating its very successful past year in enforcing environmental law. In the past federal fiscal year, which ran from October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010, the Agency took actions that reduced pollution and ensured that environmental laws are being followed. In the past fiscal year, EPA took enforcement and compliance ...
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EPA Written Report from January 19, 2012, Chemical Data Reporting Workshop
On January 19, 2012, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) and B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), affiliates of The Acta Group, L.L.C., convened a workshop at which invited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff reviewed case studies on reporting obligations for byproduct and recycled materials under the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule. EPA has recently issued a written ...
By Acta Group
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EPA Written Report from January 19, 2012, Chemical Data Reporting Workshop
On January 19, 2012, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) and B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM) convened a workshop at which invited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff reviewed case studies on reporting obligations for byproduct and recycled materials under the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule. EPA has recently issued a written report on its responses to the ...
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Part 75 Update from Golden`s team
Part 75 Conformance for Source Owners - What are EPA's expectations for AETBs? We have reviewed 2012 EPA Part 75 test reports and discussed EPA's electronic reporting and source tester requirements with Part 75 source owners. We conclude that many owners and environmental specialists who enter test data into EPA databases are not familiar with the range of EPA's expectations for source tester ...
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EPA issues report on U.S. climate change indicators
Evidence of human influences on climate change has become increasingly clear and ...
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Inside EPA Reports On Loss Of Green Chemistry Provision From TSCA Reform
On July 1, 2016, Inside EPA published "Committee Jurisdiction Issues Blocked Green Chemistry From TSCA Reform," an article discussing the passage of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) law and the lack of language from previous versions boosting federal support of green chemistry. The majority of the bill was reviewed by the House Energy and Commerce Committee, but the green chemistry ...
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EPA Written Report from January 19, 2012, Chemical Data Reporting Workshop
On January 19, 2012, Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) and B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), affiliates of The Acta Group, L.L.C., convened a workshop at which invited U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff reviewed case studies on reporting obligations for byproduct and recycled materials under the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule. EPA has recently issued a ...
By Acta Group
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U.S. - Supported International Greenhouse Gas Reduction Initiative Continues Success
An EPA report released today shows that the United States continues to provide significant support of the Methane to Markets Partnership to reduce emissions of methane, a greenhouse gas over 20 times more potent than carbon dioxide. Current U.S. Methane to Markets projects, when fully implemented, will deliver estimated annual emission reductions equivalent to more than nine million metric tons ...
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New Reporting Procedure for Co-Manufacturers Under TSCA CDR Rule May Catch Certain Manufacturers Off Guard
One of several changes to the Toxic Substance Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule, issued in final on April 9, 2020, is that in the 2020 cycle, EPA has changed the way that toll manufacturing must be reported. In this cycle, EPA will not accept reporting from only the contracting manufacturer in situations where a company contracts with another company (i.e., a toll ...
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EPA OIG Finds Safer Choice Program would Benefit From Formal Goals and Additional Oversight
On June 30, 2020, EPA’s Office of Inspector General (OIG) released a report on its audit to determine whether the Safer Choice program effectively meets its goals and whether the program achieves quality standards through its product qualification, renewal, and required audit processes. OIG states that EPA’s Safer Choice program does not have formal goals included in the FY 2018-2022 ...
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Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) Workshop to Review Case Studies on Reporting Byproducts/Recycled Materials
Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C) and B&C Consortia Management, L.L.C. (BCCM), affiliates of The Acta Group, L.L.C., have organized a workshop with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to review reporting obligations for byproducts and recycled materials under the Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) rule. The workshop will focus on specific case studies previously submitted to EPA ...
By Acta Group
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EPA Publishes Final Guidance as Final TSCA Section 8(a) Rule Takes Effect
On August 14, 2017, as the final Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Section 8(a) information gathering rule on nanomaterials took effect, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published “working guidance” intended to assist stakeholders in complying with the rule. The working guidance notes that it “will not provide answers to all of the potential questions that will ...
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Electronic Recyclers International CEO Applauds EPA’s Commitment to Cleaning Up E-Waste
WASHINGTON - John Shegerian, Chairman and CEO of Electronic Recyclers International (ERI), the nation’s leading recycler of electronics and e-waste, issued a statement today in response to U.S. EnvironmentalProtection Agency (EPA) Administrator Lisa P. Jackson’s announcement earlier this week regarding the agency’s international priorities. “Cleaning Up E-Waste” was ...
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