EPA Names Schering-Plough 2009 EPA ENERGY STAR(R) Partner of the Year
Cleveland, Tenn., Plant Recognized for Efficient Energy Performance KENILWORTH, N.J., March 30 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has named Schering-Plough Corporation as a 2009 ENERGY STAR Partner of the Year for outstanding energy management and reduct...Environmental Defense Fund Welcomes EPA Clean Air Standards to Reduce Hazardous Diesel Pollution
Proposal Would Address One Million Stationary Diesel Engines WASHINGTON, Feb. 26 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Environmental Defense Fund welcomes new clean air standards proposed by EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson to protect public health from about one million stationary diesel engines in ope...Reliance Products and Procter & Gamble Announce EPA Approval of New Claims for PUR Purifier of Water
WINNIPEG, Manitoba and CINCINNATI, Feb. 26, 2009 /PRNewswire/ -- Reliance Products LP and Procter & Gamble (NYSE: PG ) announce that the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has approved new label claims for PUR(TM) Purifier of Water specific to the removal of arsenic, the parasite...New EPA Lead Standard Significantly Improved to Protect Kids' Health
But EPA Children's Health Protection Advisory Committee Member Says EPA Analysis Justified Even Better Standard WASHINGTON, Oct. 16 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has taken a significant step to protect the health of children by strengthening the na...New Bisphenol A Study Is of Very Limited Relevance to Human Health
...is significant because it used a dose equal to the epa reference dose for BPA, which is a science-based l... level determined to be safe by EPA. However, the epa reference dose is specifically applicable only to ...dy does not call into question the validity of the epa reference dose. "Although the researchers cor...Another Study Links Fluoride to Bone Cancer
...ns, representing over 7000 environmental and public health professionals called for a moratorium on fluoridation programs across the country and asked epa management to recognize fluoride as posing a serious risk of causing cancer in people.(7) In addition, over 2,430 professionals urge the U.S. Co...Physicians' Health Study II Finds No Magic Bullet for Preventing Cardiovascular Disease
...l essential nutrients through a good diet plus use of a multivitamin, and selected other nutrients including vitamins E and C, vitamin D, calcium, and epa and DHA omega-3 fatty acids." The Council for Responsible Nutrition (CRN), founded in 1973, is a Washington, D.C.-based trade association representi...TOZAL(R) Nutritional Supplement Improves Vision in Common Form of Macular Degeneration
...exaenoic acid (DHA) and eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA) had far lower risks of developing wet macular degeneration. Those in the top 25 percent of DHA and epa levels -- 300 milligrams a day and above -- reduced their risk by 70 percent. TOZAL is the only currently available eye-health formulation that contai...Anpath Group, Inc. Announces Approval of its Disinfectant by the State of Florida
...atements will prove correct and various factors could cause results to differ materially from Anpath Group expectations, including, but not limited to epa and state registration of the Company's products, the Company's ability to carry out its business plan, successful development and commercial acceptan...Anpath Group, Inc. Announces Addition of MRSA and VRE Claims for Its EnviroTru(R) Disinfectant
...ecalis). Having received approval from the federal epa for these additional claims, the company has comme...fective against numerous organisms, and also meets epa requirements for Toxicity Category IV (no harmful ... Group expectations, including, but not limited to epa registration of the Company's products, the Compan...'Father of green chemistry' Paul Anastas to head EPA research
New Haven, Conn. President Obama has nominated Paul Anastas, Yale's Teresa and H. John Heinz III Professor in the Practice of Chemistry for the Environment, to lead the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) Office of Research and Development. Anastas is currently director of the Cente...Carnegie Mellon to receive $900,000 from EPA for brownfields research
Event: Carnegie Mellon University's Deborah A. Lange will receive a $900,000 check from Donald S. Welsh, administrator of the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Region III which includes Pennsylvania, Virginia, Maryland, Delaware, West Virginia and the District of Columbia for continued res...NSF and EPA establish 2 centers for environmental implications of nanotechnology
The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have made awards to establish two Centers for the Environmental Implications of Nanotechnology (CEIN). The centers, led by UCLA and Duke University, will study how nanomaterials interact with the environmen...Duke to lead new NSF, EPA center to study the environmental implications of nanotechnology
DURHAM, NC--The National Science Foundation (NSF) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) have awarded $14.4 million to create the Center for Environmental Implications of NanoTechnology (CEINT) to explore the potential ecological hazards of nanoparticles. Nanoparticles are as much as a ...To your health: EPA announces safe drinking water research
Let's raise our water glasses and toast to America's health! Water is essential to life, and one of EPA's highest priorities is ensuring America has drinking water safe from pathogens and other waterborne contaminants. Today, EPA announced the award of $3.6 million in research grants to four unive...Stronger EPA leadership needed to improve water quality in Mississippi River
WASHINGTON The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency must take a more aggressive leadership role in implementing the Clean Water Act if water quality in the Mississippi River and the northern Gulf of Mexico is to improve, says a new report from the National Research Council. EPA has failed to use ...CO2 emissions could violate EPA ocean-quality standards within decades
Stanford, CA. -- In a commentary in the September 25, 2007, issue of the Geophysical Research Letters (GRL), a large team of scientists state that human-induced carbon dioxide (CO2) emissions will alter ocean chemistry to the point where it will violate U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Quality...UH team analyzes Hurricane Ike's effects on waterways, fish contamination
...th the Galveston Bay system started in the early '90s with funding from the epa Galveston Bay National Estuary Program," said Rifai, whose team helped writ...ai said, and it looks for pollutants in sediment, water and tissue. "The epa has asked the states to come up with water bodies that do not meet Clean Wa...American Chemical Society's Weekly Presspac -- June 17, 2009
...ticide residues that might be found in U.S. homes. epa and HUD scientists plan to further investigate the... June 22, 2009 No more test tubes on four feet? epa moves toward animal-free toxicity tests Chemica...700 more added each year. Over the next ten years, epa plans to increasingly rely on so-called toxicity-b...Improved method developed to test carcinogen risk
... in preliminary stages, studies seem to be showing that previous studies about aflatoxins, another common carcinogen, are reasonably accurate. "The epa levels of exposure for both the PAH compound and aflatoxins were determined using essentially the same methodology based on rodent studies," Bailey sa...IIVS Announces Initiation by EPA of a Pilot Program to Evaluate Non-Animal Eye-Irritation Methods
GAITHERSBURG, Md. , July 30 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- The EPA has initiated a new program to evaluate the use of non-animal methods to replace the Draize test for eye irritation labeling for antimicrobial cleaning products. The is the first program of its kind and demonstrates the Ag...Pasteuria Bioscience Receives EPA Registration for Nematode Control
ALACHUA, Fla., June 8 /PRNewswire/ -- Pasteuria Bioscience announced that it has received registration from the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) for Pasteuria usgae . This is a critical step towards the commercial use of Pasteuria spp., a natural bacteria prevalent in soi...Former EPA official calls for new environmental and consumer protection agency
Existing health and safety agencies are unable to cope with the risk assessment, standard setting and oversight challenges of advancing nanotechnology. The nation needs a new agency to address current forms of pollution and to deal with the health and environmental impacts of the technically compl...Major EPA enforcement effort on nano-pesticide applauded
WASHINGTON A major decision by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to fine California technology company IOGEAR more than $200,000 for selling unregistered nano-pesticides is being applauded by David Rejeski, the director of the Project on Emerging Nanotechnologies (PEN). EPA should recei...Newly Published EPA RCRA Method 6800 Supports AIT Technology
Calibration-less Elemental & Speciated Analysis Brings Unprecedented Accuracy PITTSBURGH, Feb. 20 /PRNewswire/ -- Applied Isotope Technologies ("AIT") announced today, that the EPA Method 6800 has been published in January 2008 edition of the Federal Register a...NIH collaborates with EPA to improve the safety testing of chemicals
Testing the safety of chemicals ranging from pesticides to household cleaners will benefit from new technologies and a plan for collaboration, according to federal scientists from the National Institutes of Health (NIH) and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), who today announced a new ...Analysis of Fuel Oxygenates by U.S. EPA Method 8260B Using Headspace Trap with GC/MS
Author: Heidi Grecsek PerkinElmer Life and Analytical Sciences 710 Bridgeport Avenue Shelton, CT 06484 Introduction The Clean Air Act amendments of 1990 require that oxygenated compounds be added to gasoline to produce ...