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EPA Releases Final Risk Assessment on Trichloroethylene (TCE)
2014-06-25 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
Developed as part of Toxic Substances Control Act Work Plan, EPA's final assessment identifies health risks from TCE exposures to consumers using spray aerosol degreasers and spray fixatives. It also identifies health risks to workers when TCE is used as degreaser in small commercial shops and as stain removing agent in dry cleaning. EPA developed draft based on best available information and finalized assessment after consideration of comments from public and experts during peer review. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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06.25.14 -- Fracking Wastewater Rules Divide States; High Court Decision On EPA Carbon Rules Welcomed
2014-06-24 19:39:32| oilandgasonline Home Page
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Will new EPA plan push power plants to fire coal companies?
2014-06-24 10:22:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Kapitall: On June 2, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed the Clean Power Plan, which would cut carbon pollution by 30% from 2005 levels by 2030. A bit of background: In 1997, the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change collaborated on the creation of the Kyoto Protocol, an international treaty binding participating countries to the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions. The United States signed the Protocol but did not ratify it, making it one of 4 UN members not party to the Protocol...
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Justices rap EPA, but uphold global warming rules
2014-06-23 19:36:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The Supreme Court largely left intact Monday the Obama administration's only existing program to limit power plant and factory emissions of the gases blamed for global warming. But a divided court also rebuked environmental regulators for taking too much authority into their own hands without congressional approval. The justices said in a 5-4 vote along ideological lines that the Environmental Protection Agency cannot apply a permitting provision of the Clean Air Act to new and expanded power plants,...
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Justices Say EPA Can Require Pollution Controls but Limit Permitting Process
2014-06-23 18:25:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Wall Street Journal: The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday allowed the Environmental Protection Agency to require greenhouse-gas controls on power plants and other large stationary sources of pollution, but ruled the agency was too aggressive in its approach. The court`s divided decision, written by Justice Antonin Scalia, amounted to a middle-ground way to resolve the case and may have only a minor impact on the Obama administration`s current regulations, which require power plants and other large emissions sources to...
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