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EPA Strengthens Chemical Assessment Process to Protect Public Health
2013-07-31 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA announced changes to its Integrated Risk Information System Program to improve scientific foundation of assessments, increase transparency in the program and process, and allow agency to produce more IRIS assessments each year. IRIS evaluates information on health effects that may result from exposure to environmental contaminants. These high quality, science-based human health assessments are used to make informed decisions to protect public health and the environment. This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
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EPA Proposes Rule to Modernize Clean Water Act Reporting
2013-07-31 06:00:00| Industrial Newsroom - All News for Today
EPA's e-reporting rule would make facility-specific information, such as inspection and enforcement history, pollutant monitoring results, and other data required by permits accessible to public through EPA's website. EPA estimates that, once rule is fully implemented, 46 states and the Virgin Island Territory that are authorized to administer National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System program will collectively save $29 million each year by switching from paper to electronic ...This story is related to the following:Green & CleanSearch for suppliers of:
EPA chief: preventing climate change the opportunity of a lifetime
2013-07-30 21:30:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obama's top environmental official wasted no time Tuesday taking on opponents of the administration's plan to crack down on global warming pollution. In her first speech as the head of EPA, Gina McCarthy told an audience gathered at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Massachusetts, that curbing climate-altering pollution will spark business innovation, grow jobs and strengthen the economy. The message was classic Obama, who has long said that the environment and the economy aren't...
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New EPA chief: Climate controls will help economy
2013-07-30 19:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: President Barack Obamas top environmental official wasted no time Tuesday taking on opponents of the administrations plan to crack down on global warming pollution. In her first speech as the head of EPA, Gina McCarthy told an audience gathered at Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., that curbing climate-altering pollution will spark business innovation, grow jobs and strengthen the economy. The message was classic Obama, who has long said that the environment and the economy arent in conflict...
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New EPA chief to business: Embrace 'opportunity' of climate change
2013-07-30 17:20:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Hill: Environmental Protection Agency chief Gina McCarthy is using her first big speech in the role to argue that battling climate change presents an opportunity for job creation. For too long we were presented a false choice: between the health of our children and the health of our economy. The truth is cutting carbon pollution will spark business innovation, resulting in cleaner forms of American-made energy, McCarthy will say at Harvard Law School late Tuesday morning, according to the EPA. McCarthy,...
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