Verdant Proudly Sponsors Prop.65 Clearinghouse's Green Chemistry Conference
Green Chemistry: Verdant is pleased to announce its sponsorship of the Prop.65 Clearinghouse Green Chemistry Annual Conference. This year’s conference will be held on Tuesday, April 9, 2013, at the The City Club of San Francisco, 155 Sansome Street. Verdant attorney, Philip Moffat, will present on “REACH 2013.” Verdant attorney, Catherine Lin, will present on “Supply […]
EPA Proposes Significant New Use Rules for 37 Chemicals and Nanomaterials
TSCA/SNUR/Nanotechnology: Background Continuing its robust exercise of its expansive TSCA authority, EPA last week released proposed Significant New Use Rules (“SNURs”) under TSCA for 37 chemicals, including 14 nanoengineered carbon compounds. The SNURs cover a wide range of uses, including the manufacture, processing, and import of adhesives, coatings, colorants, lubricants, chemical intermediates, etc., and result […]
Upcoming Public Hearing on California's Draft Green Chemistry Regulations
California Green Chemistry Regulations: California EPA and DTSC have announced a public meeting on the draft regulations. The meeting will occur on Thursday, February 28, 2013 at 9:00 a.m. See announcement embedded below. CALIFORNIA ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY COUNCIL NOTICE OF PUBLIC MEETING Department of Toxic Substances Control’s Safer Consumer Products Proposed Regulations Need for a Multimedia Evaluation […]
Virginia Assembly Opposes Agenda 21
Sustainability: Yes, from the state that brought us Thomas Jefferson and so many other leaders, we now get the following. Leaders or not? You decide. ______________________________________________________________________________________________________________ HOUSE JOINT RESOLUTION NO. 654 Offered January 9, 2013 Prefiled January 8, 2013 Recognizing the need to oppose United Nations Agenda 21. ———- Patrons– Lingamfelter, Cole, Hodges, Landes and […]
Global Mercury Reduction Treaty Finalized
UN/Mercury: Last week in Geneva, Switzerland, over 140 countries finalized the first global mercury reduction treaty, the Minamata Convention on Mercury. The treaty follows four years of negotiations among national environment ministers. The Convention is named in honor of Minamata, the Japanese city which suffered severe public health effects from mercury pollution over 50 years […]
China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) Releases Regular Reporting Requirements for Four New Substances
China: On January 4, 2013, China’s Ministry of Environmental Protection (MEP) released regular reporting requirements for four new substances under its chemical registration regime. Two of the newly certified compounds are classified as hazardous and the other two as dangerous. Under China’s new chemical registration regime, the “Provisions on the Environmental Administration of New Chemical […]
IRIS Remains Under Fire
Risk Assessment/IRIS: EPA’s Integrated Risk Information System (“IRIS”), which assesses the human health risks associated with chemical exposure, has come under fire from the head of the scientific panel charged by Congress to review the program. In recent years, IRIS has been the subject of much criticism, causing Congress to direct a panel of the […]
CRS Report Published on Chemical Regulation Issues for 113th Congress
TSCA Reform: Last week, the Congressional Research Service (“CRS”) released a new report previewing chemical regulation issues for the 113th Congress. According to CRS, lawmakers are likely to prioritize legislative priorities that languished in the last Congress, like bills that would require increased public disclosure of chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing as well as a proposal […]
Verdant Settles EPCRA Enforcement Matter for New Cingular Wireless
EPCRA: Verdant is pleased to announce that it helped its client, New Cingular Wireless, reach a favorable settlement with EPA over a longstanding EPCRA enforecement matter involving legacy facilities owned by a predecessor company. A copy of EPA’s press release is embedded below. ____________________________________________________________________________________________________ WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and New Cingular Wireless (NCW) […]
EPA finalizes withdrawal of TSCA § 8(d) reporting rule for cadmium
TSCA: As we previously reported, EPA announced that it would withdraw its TSCA § 8(d) final rule requiring manufacturers of cadmium or cadmium compounds to report certain unpublished health and safety studies. Today, EPA released the pre-publication version of the final rule withdrawing the December 3, 2012 reporting rule. The reporting rule for cadmium was […]