Keyword: Environmental Protection Agency

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Environment Rollback Roils America

31.03.2017 - With the shock waves from 2016’s most unanticipated events – Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US president – still reverberating, the earth sometimes seems to be tilting...

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Two US States to Rein in Neonic Pesticides

31.08.2016 - As the US agriculture sector awaits a final opinion from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) on the threat to bee populations from neonicotinoid-based pesticides (neonics)...

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Enriching the Microbiome

05.06.2015 - BioConsortia celebrated its first anniversary in March. The innovative agricultural biotech company focuses on the discovery and development of beneficial microbial consortia for...

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US House Restricts EPA's Scientific Advisory Board

27.02.2015 - The US House of Representatives, now with a Republican party majority, is seeking to make good on its pledge to declaw the Environmental Protection Agency, EPA. Earlier this week...

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US Grouping Pushes for Safer Chemical Use

17.07.2014 - A survey conducted by the US Center for Effective Government in cooperation with the Coming Clean Collaborative in the wake of the deadly explosion of the West fertilizer storage...

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EPA Says U.S. Toxic Chemical Emissions on the Wane

05.02.2014 - Total releases of toxic chemicals in the U.S. decreased by 12% in 2011 and 2012, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency, EPA, said in its annual Toxic Release Inventory (TRI)...

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Wyoming Indian Tribe Can Administer Clean Air Act

24.12.2013 - The governor of the U.S. state of Wyoming, Matt Mead, has said he will not recognize the Environmental Protection Agency's determination that more than a million acres of state...

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Carbon Black Producer Cabot Fined Nearly $1 million by EPA

26.11.2013 - Cabot Corporation, the second largest carbon black manufacturer in the U.S., has been fined $975,000 by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and ordered to invest some $84...