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- Tainted Soil Uproots Lives in Chatham County, Ga.
- Savannah Morning News, Ga. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 20--Annette and Frank Turner learned just months ago that an underground gasoline tank at a nearby Georgia State Patrol post had leaked for years -- spreading fuel across an area about the length of two...
- Research articles 2002-01-20
- The humbugs of the anti-regulatory movement.(myths of absurdly expensive environmental regulation)(cost-per-life)
- It is so hard to get beyond cynicism these days. Even a symposium devoted to this goal has, as reflected in the articles by Professors Cynthia Farina, Jeffrey Rachlinski, and Mark Seidenfeld, succeeded primarily in suggesting that regulators are not so much selfish as they are...
- Research articles 2002-01-01
- Regulatory costs of mythic proportions.
- Critiques of risk regulation rely pervasively on estimates of the costs Of various federal regulations per life saved. As Professor Heinzerling illustrates in this Article, most of these estimates derive from a single source, a table prepared in the 1980s by an economist at the Office of Management and Budget,...
- Research articles 1998-05-01
- Children's Drinks Contain Ingredients That Can Form Benzene; FDA Silent Despite Knowledge of the Problem; Agency Trusted Industry to Change Formulas in 1990, Yet Still Finds Sodas With Benzene.
- Byline: Environmental Working Group Byline: Environmental Working Group
- Research articles 2006-02-28
- FDA Data Undercut Public Safety Assurances by Top Agency Official; Tests Found High Benzene Contamination of Diet Soda; 79 Percent of Samples Above Drinking Water Limit.
- Byline: Environmental Working Group Byline: Environmental Working Group
- Research articles 2006-04-04
- Hoechst seeks review of benzene standard; Environmental Protection Agency regulatory interpretations are being challenged.(Hoechst Celanese Corp.)
- Environmental Protection Agency regulatory interpretations are being challenged. HOECHST CELANESE Corporation is asking the Supreme Court to clear up the confusion surrounding its liability for failing to observe Environmental Protection Agency's Environmental Protection Agency regulatory interpretations are being challenged. ...
- Research articles 1998-04-13
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- EPA Resolves Cases of Ammonia, Benzene Leaks.(Environmental Protection Agency)(Brief Article)(Statistical Data Included)
- CHICAGO, IL -- The Environmental Protection Agency EPA Region 5 has settled two cases with Chicago area facilities involving ammonia and benzene leaks. CHICAGO, IL -- The Environmental Protection Agency EPA Region 5 has settled two cases with Chicago area facilities involving ammonia and...
- Research articles 2000-12-04
- At Deadline: Delaware, EPA to begin chemical cleanup.(Late News)(chlorinated benzene removal from Metachem Products plant)(Brief Article)
- Delaware City, Del. - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the Delaware Department of Natural Resources and Environmental Control will begin removing 1 million tons of chlorinated benzene this month from portions of a former chemical plant. Delaware City, Del. - The U.S. Environmental...
- Research articles 2003-01-06
- EPA limits industrial benzene emissions
- EPA limits industrial benzene emissions For roughly 15 years, the Environmental Protection Agency has wrestled with how to regulate nonoccupational exposures to benzene, a human carcinogen and the sixteenth most widely used chemical by U.S. industries. Last week, EPA finally unveiled a sweeping control strategy to cut industrial...
- Research articles 1989-09-09
- EPA Proposes Benzene Rules.(limits on the amount of benzene in gasoline)(Brief Article)
- THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is proposing to set maximum limits on the amount of benzene, a known human carcinogen, in conventional gasoline and cleaner-burning reformulated gasoline RFG. The proposed standards would require refiners THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency is...
- Research articles 2000-07-31
- Western Refiners Offer Regional Twist on Benzene Reductions; EPA Weighed Senators' Suggestions
- While western-state Senators were challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to modify proposed benzene regulations to ensure air benefits in their region, western-state refiners were offering the White House Office of Management and BudgeWhile western-state Senators were challenging the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to modify proposed benzene regulations...
- Research articles 2007-01-22
- Benzene Standard Affirmed
- AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and Health Administration official says the agency has no plans to tighten the current standard for benzene exposures. The government is looking at other chemicals that pose greater risks and are present at much higher levels t AN OCCUPATIONAL SAFETY and Health Administration...
- Research articles 1997-03-10
- Coke and Pepsi sued over benzene content in certain products
- Coke and Pepsi sued over benzene content in certain products: Coca-Cola Co. has been hit by a lawsuit claiming some Coke products contain unsafe levels of benzene. The lawsuit, issued in Kansas on August 25 alleges that tests on Coke's Vault Zero beverage found 13 parts per billion of benzene,...
- Research articles 2006-09-11
- Clean-up for Montrose and Del Amo sites:.
- The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA has proposed a pump-and-treat clean-up plan for ground water contaminated by the Montrose Chemical and Del Amo Superfund sites. The ground water is contaminated with chlorobenzene, benzene and other chemic The US Environmental Protection Agency EPA has proposed a ...
- Research articles 1999-05-01
- Simulation Software From Invensys Process Systems Helps Silver Eagle Refining to Meet EPA MSAT Benzene Emission Regulations
- Invensys Process Systems, a leading provider of asset performance management solutions, and Silver Eagle Refining Inc., an independent Rocky Mountain area Independent Petroleum Refiner located in Woods Cross, Utah, have successfully applied simulation software in meeting upcoming Environmental Protection Agency EPA Mobile Source Air Toxics MSAT requirements for...
- Research articles 2008-03-17
- One Big Fracking Problem for Oil and Gas Industry
- Legislation introduced this week that targets hydraulic fracturing -- a technique used to access vast new fields for drilling -- is pitting the oil and gas industry against environmentalists in a debate over public health, federal versus state regulation and the protection of industry trade secrets. Here's what the legislation also will...
- Blog posts 2009-06-11
- ENVIRONMENTAL UPDATE
- Consumers * Summer chores around the house usually include painting. Today's paints are safer than ever before, but there is a big problem concerning volatile organic compounds VOCs. VOCs like vinyl chloride and benzene, synthetic solvents that give paint consistency and that fresh-paint smell, react with sunlight to form groundlevel...
- Research articles 2005-07-01
- Rangers No Longer Getting Sick In Yellowstone; Watchdog Groups Applaud Park's Improving Health Under Snowmobile Phase-out
- "We are seeing health benefits from the snowmobile phase-out underway in Yellowstone that both the National Park Service and the Environmental Protection Agency predicted," said Michael Scott, executive director of the Greater Yellowstone Coalition. "Americans visiting Yellowstone this winter are breathing less carbon monoxide, formaldehyde, and benzene than in past...
- Research articles 2004-02-04
- Reilly Tar and Chemical site clean-up:
- The Environmental Protection Agency EPA and Reilly Industries Inc. have signed a clean-up agreement for the 121-acre (49 ha) Reilly Tar and Chemical Superfund site in Indiana. The firm operated a coal tar refinery and creosote wood treatment plant at the site from 1921-72. It still...
- Research articles 1995-04-01
- New EPA rules eye toxic car emissions
- WASHINGTON -- Toxic fumes from cars and gasoline would be cut significantly under new limits on cancer-causing benzene, adopted by the Bush administration under legal pressure from environmental groups. The requirements, to take effect between 2009 and 2011, would reduce toxic emissions of benzene and other pollutants...
- Research articles 2007-02-10
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