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- Attorneys General Oppose EPA Move to Narrow Toxics Reporting
- WASHINGTON, DC ENS — --> A dozen state attorneys general are calling on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency EPA to withdraw proposed regulations that would cut back the amount of information available to the public about toxic chemicals released by industrial facilities. On January 13, the law enforcement officials...
- Research articles 2006-01-23
- EPA clears Monsanto to Sell Bt corn targeting corn rootworm. (United States/Americas).
- EPA says it has approved Monsanto's registration to begin selling genetically modified GM Bacillus thuringiensis Br corn designed to resist the corn rootworm. The approval, which was announced last week, clears the way for the first GM product that targets the biggest single reason why corn...
- Research articles 2003-03-05
- Some North Dakota Bean Growers Seek Approval of Herbicide.
- By Mikkel Pates, Grand Forks Herald, N.D. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jan. 25--FARGO, N.D. -- Some North Dakota dry edible bean growers are pushing Northarvest Bean Growers Association to make it legal to apply glyphosate herbicide in the state for late-season weed...
- Research articles 2003-01-25
- AGRICULTURE: Bean growers seek OK of Roundup
- FARGO - Some North Dakota dry edible bean growers are pushing Northarvest Bean Growers Association to make it legal to apply glyphosate herbicide in the state for late-season weed control.Farmers, including Mike Brandenburg of Edgeley, said the approval is needed to clean up bean fields that have weed problems. Brandenburg...
- Research articles 2003-01-25
- Federal Regulators Want Cleanup Plan for Dioxin Seepage at Nitro, W.Va., Site.
- By Ken Ward Jr., The Charleston Gazette, W.Va. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Apr. 27--Federal regulators have given Solutia Inc. a week to submit a plan to clean up dioxin seepage at the former Monsanto chemical plant in Nitro. On...
- Research articles 2002-04-27
- Solutia, EPA agree on Anniston cleanup plan. (United States/Americas).(Monsanto has taken name Solutia)(Brief Article)
- Solutia and EPA have signed a consent decree for cleanup of the Anniston, AL, site where Solutia's predecessor Monsanto manufactured polychlorinated biphenyls PCBs from the 1940s to the 1970s. The consent decree, a legally binding cleanup plan, details measures the company must take to investigate the...
- Research articles 2002-03-27
- EPA Renews Bt Cotton Registration.(transgenic cotton from Monsanto)(Brief Article)
- EPA says it will renew registration for Monsanto's genetically modified GM cotton, which contains the insect-resistant Bacillus thuringiensis Bt gene, for another five years. It is the first time that the agency has renewed approval of a GM crop. There is "reasonable certainty" that Bt cotton...
- Research articles 2001-10-03
- Don't Ask, Don't Know: The Biotech Regulatory Vacuum.
- BIOTECH INDUSTRY SUPPORTERS such as Senator Kit Bond, R-Missouri, claim that most people in the United States have already accepted genetically engineered crops because of widespread confidence in the government's ability to regulate the introduction of these new foods. "In the United States,...
- Research articles 2000-01-01
- Economic challenges of transgenic crops: the case to Bt cotton
- Over the past century, technological advances, in concert with increased extraction of nonrenewable resources, have forestalled the realization of the Malthusian prediction. Yet there remains a need to feed and clothe a growing world population on a largely fixed land base - and to do so in a manner that...
- Research articles 1999-09-01
- Forecast '99.
- A Better Year ... If Asia Recovers Economists expect u.s. chemical industry sales and earnings to be flat in 1999, primarily as a result of depressed chemical prices and Asia's financial woes. Union Carbide, Eastman Chemical, Lyondell, and several other chemical companies warn that...
- Research articles 1999-01-06
- Crunch time: permits, HON compliance come due: sites busy inventorying emission points. (Air Quality) (Cover Story)
- The chemical industry is feeling pressure to bring plants into compliance with the Clean Air Amendments of 1990. Plant staff are in the process of inspecting and inventorying all emissions points. Following this process, the facilities must determine which federal control regulations pertain to each of the points. Most plants...
- Research articles 1994-10-26
- EPA Renews Monsanto License.(for insect-protected corn)(Brief Article)
- Monsanto has received renewed registration for its insect-protected corn from the Environmental Protection Agency. The ... Monsanto has received renewed registration for its insect-protected corn from the Environmental Protection Agency. The registration extends the commercial license to sell Monsanto's YieldGard Corn Borer insect-protected...
- Research articles 2001-10-22
- Pandora's poison - environmental harm caused by polychlorinated biphenyls - includes related information
- In the blackness of a freezing morning in December 1991, a driver lost control of her car on an isolated road in upstate New York and slammed into an electric-utility pole. Two miles away, the electrical system at the state-university campus at New Paltz went haywire. Minutes later, a Westinghouse...
- Research articles 1994-09-01
- Change ahead: goals beyond compliance. (environmental auditing programs in the US and Europe)
- The US and the European Community are both developing voluntary guidelines for companies to establish overall environmental management and auditing procedures at plant sites. The International Organization of Standardization ISO is also developing environmental auditing guidelines that it hopes to have ready in the late 1990s. International companies are hoping...
- Research articles 1993-09-29
- Backyard protest: emergence, expansion, and persistence of a local hazardous waste controversy.
- One town's efforts to oppose a government-sponsored environmental cleanup of a polychlorinated biphenyl dump site is analyzed. The case study, which is set in Bloomington, IN, focuses on how an issue can transform the politics of a community and the dynamics of the environmental movement. It also looks at how...
- Research articles 1993-09-22
- Pesticide makers set to tackle federal issues: food safety, EPA regulations top the agenda. (National Agricultural Chemcials Assn.)
- The National Agricultural Chemicals Assn NACA, at its 1992 meeting, spelled out its legislative/regulatory agenda. The association's board approved a five-year plan that targets rules and policies governing processed-food pesticide residues, unregistered-pesticides exports, water quality and other matters. The plan includes the broader goal of harmonizing global pesticide rules. ...
- Research articles 1992-10-14
- Cleaning up disinfectants
- The Environmental Protection Agency EPA is looking into allegations that the manufacturer of a popular household disinfectant concealed evidence that the solution contained trace amounts of dioxin, an industrial contaminant believed to pose health risks. There are different kinds of dioxin, which occur as by-products in some chemical manufacturing....
- Research articles 1991-07-01
- Let's keep scientific fraud out of industrial research. (editorial)
- Let's keep scientific fraud out of industrial research A NEWS REPORT in the Atlanta Constitution recently claimed that researchers at Monsanto, the St. Louis-based chemical company, falsified data on the health effects of dioxin. The company is appealing a court ruling in which it was assessed...
- Research articles 1990-05-01
- Blooperfund; that's supposed to be cleanup, not coverup
- Blooperfund That's supposed to be cleanup, not coverup In the field where her sons Fred and Davey used to play baseball with their friends, Marie Flickinger is examining the ground where no grass has grown for 18 years. She has been watching these patches of soil closely and...
- Research articles 1990-04-01
- Trait technology registration extended.(Brief Article)
- Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, announces that the EPA recently extended the registration of its YieldGard Rootworm corn product. The extension enables Monsanto and corn seed companies that have licensed this product to sell YieldGard Rootworm thr Monsanto Company, St. Louis, MO, announces that...
- Research articles 2004-05-01
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