A SCIENCE ADVISORY committee has rejected Environmental Protection Agency's plan to elevate the cancer classification of 1,3-butadiene to a "known human carcinogen." After reviewing a draft of a revised risk assessment, 11 of the 14 mem A SCIENCE ADVISORY committee has rejected...
A Science Advisory committee has rejected Environmental Protection Agency's plan to elevate the cancer classification of 1,3-butadiene to a "known human carcinogen." After reviewing a draft of a revised risk assessment, 11 of the 14 A Science Advisory...
Alexandria, Va. - U.S. EPA's federal advisory committee act FACA panel examining challenges to highway diesel 2006/7 rules compliance (see Diesel Fuel News 5/13/02, p1) laid down its ground rules last week.
Tempe, Ariz. - U.S. EPA will convene an independent Federal Advisory Committee Act FACA technical review panel on the agency's 2006/7 highway diesel emissions/fuel rule in May, the agency's deputy director Karl Simon told the Clean Heavy-Duty Vehicles conference here.
A SCIENCE advisory committee has rejected Environmental Protection Agency's preliminary finding that the herbicide atrazine is a likely human carcinogen. Members of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide and Rodenticide Act scientific advisory pa A SCIENCE advisory committee has rejected...
THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency EPA last week requested nominations for a more balanced federal advisory committee on testing industrial chemicals and pesticides for possible endocrine disruption. In a Federal Register notice, EPA said i THE ENVIRONMENTAL Protection Agency EPA...
Dale Kaplan, owner of Kaplan's Careful Cleaners in Camp Hill, Pa., has been appointed to the Environmental Protection Agency EPA National Advisory Council for Environmental Policy & Technology's Compliance Assistance Advisory Committee CAAC Dale Kaplan, owner of Kaplan's Careful Cleaners in Camp Hill, ...
The announcement by the Environmental Protection Agency that it will enact less stringent ground-level ozone standards than those recommended by its scientific advisory committee, "continues the Administration's practice of not listening to scientific input," asserts the dean of Duke University's School of the Environment and Earth Sciences, Durham, N.C. ...
To: STATE EDITORS Contact: Neil Weaver of Pennsylvania Department of EnvironmentalProtection, +1-717-787-1323 EPA Sets Eight-Hour Ozone Standard to 75 Parts per Billion;Scientific Advisory Committee Recommended 60 to 70 Parts per Billion HARRISBURG, Pa., March 12 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- PennsylvaniaDepartment of Environmental Protection Secretary Kathleen A. McGintytoday said that the U.S....
The U.S. Department of the Interior has created a committee to advise federal officials on how to protect wildlife from impacts from wind-power turbines. The committee has 22 members and is known as the Wind Turbine Guidelines Advisory Committee. It will meet four times a year, and...
The Environmental Protection Agency EPA establishes the first-ever Farm, Ranch and Rural Communities Federal Advisory Committee. The committee will meet approximately twice yearly and is intended to consist of approximately 25 members representing: (1) large and small farmers, ranchers and rural communities; (2) rural suppliers, marketers and processors;...
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA recently proposed setting a new National Ambient Air Quality Standard for ground-level ozone. The agency has proposed lowering the current standard of 0.08 parts per million ppm of ozone to 0.07-0.075 ppm, opting for a higher standard than the more stringent level of 0.06-0.07...
It is with great sadness that we report the passing of Univesity of California, Los Angeles UCLA Professor Sheldon K. Friedlander on February 9, 2007. Friedlander was a pioneer in aerosol science and considered by many to he one of the "fathers" of this field. He devoted his academic career...
To: NATIONAL EDITORS Contact: Jenny Neeley, +1-520-623-9653, or Deborah Bagocius, +1-202-772-0239; both for Defenders of Wildlife WASHINGTON, March 15 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Defenders ofWildlife today applauded the Environmental Protection Agency's GoodNeighbor Environmental Board's new report, which outlinesrecommendations to protect habitat and wildlife along the U.S.-Mexico border. The report, "Environmental Protection...
The Arizona town of Carefree is cracking down on motorcyclists by posting anti-noise signs that limit sound to 80 dB. Motorcyclists and others are complaining that the signs do not correlate with the town's noise ordinance limit of 85 dB. Those...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> U.S. Senator Barbara Boxer, a California Democrat who serves as the new chairman of the Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works, has introduced two bills to protect people from drinking water contaminated by the toxic chemical perchlorate. One bill would direct the U.S. Environmental...
2006 Fellow Professor of Economics, Iowa State University, since 1996 Head, Resource and Environmental Policy Division, Center for Agricultural and Rural Development, Iowa State University, since 1999 U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, Science Advisory Board, Executive Board, 2003-current, Environmental Economics Advisory Committee, 1998-2003 ...
WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> The panel of scientific experts who advised the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA on the public health impacts of federal particulate matter standards has sharply criticized the Bush administration for ignoring its advice. In a letter sent Friday to EPA Administrator Stephen Johnson, the seven...
STANDARDS Dorothy Bowers has been named chair of the U.S. technical advisory group TAG to the ISO working group on social responsibility. This group represents the United States' interests in the development of ISO 26000, the upcoming social responsibility standard. Bowers recently completed a three-year term as chair of the...
We appreciate Goozner's compliment that our commentary (Barrow and Conrad 2006) demonstrates "a sophisticated understanding of the nuances of the Federal Advisory Committee Act." We wish we could take credit for "accurately point[ing] out that the act draws a distinction between conflicts of interest ... and bias," except that it...
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