EPA Backs Nanomaterial Safety Research
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Agency awarded $4M in grants to study the health, environmental risks posed by manufactured nanomaterials -- invisibly tiny materials revolutionizing many industries but its effects on living things remain unknown.-The Washington Post
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Sending your favourite suit to the dry-cleaners could one day be an infrequent practice when &quot;self-cleaning&quot; clothing become the norm, thanks to progress in nano-technology, the American Chemical Society has said.
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A team of experts draws up five "grand challenges" in order to evaluate the safety of nanotechnology.
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Nanotechnology research advances are happening with such frequency these days that the individual achievements are losing some of their power to awe â until you stop and think about them. Take two successes announced in recent days: the creation of the worldâs most powerful electron microscope and the invention of a new [...].
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By Houston Chronicle  Jun. 26--If nanotechnology is a racehorse, then industry is a jockey whipping it along to market at a breakneck pace. The regulatory community is a poor old trainer limping along in the backstretch, pleading to wrap the horse's legs for safety.
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By Jim DeBrosse Staff Writer  DAYTON -- Nanotechnology -- the science of creating and manipulating tiny particles onebillionth of a meter in size -- holds tremendous promise but may also pose risks.
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U.S. scientists issued another warning about nanomaterials, saying some show significant potential for dispersal in aquatic environments.
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The Transportation Department acknowledged Tuesday encouraging members of Congress to weigh in with the EPA on California's request to implement global warming controls on automakers.
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By Kimberly S. Johnson, The Denver Post  Sep. 19--From cars with crash-alert systems to optical lens filters for  the aerospace industry, Colorado's nanotechnology sector is aiming for big  growth, despite being based on small matter.
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Worldwide research and  development spending in the emerging field of nanotechnology  should rise about 10 percent this year to $8.6 billion, a  research firm said on Monday.
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Superblack material made from microscopic carbon nanotubes is produced in a US laboratory.
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WASHINGTON, Feb. 6  /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ -- Small business supports the Environmental Protection Agency's recent reform of the Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) rule, according to testimony today by Chief Counsel for Advocacy Thomas M. Sullivan.
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FAIRFAX, Va., Dec. 18  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- SRA International, Inc. , a leading provider of technology and strategic consulting services and solutions to federal government organizations, announced that it has been awarded a competitive task order by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA).
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency issued new national water regulations yesterday that it said will help reduce lead in drinking water, keep utilities honest in testing for lead and warn the public when water poses a health risk.
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The Environmental Protection Agency has decided to regulate a large class of consumer items made with microscopic "nanoparticles" of silver, part of a new but increasingly widespread technology that may pose unanticipated environmental risks, a government official said yesterday.
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Shares of Oragenics Inc. jumped after the biotechnology company reported Tuesday that the Food and Drug Administration allowed it to proceed with safety trials on a lifelong tooth decay protection rinse that
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By Brian Nearing, Albany Times Union, N.Y.  Jun. 6--WASHINGTON -- Recommendations in a national study on federal water pollution cleanup projects already are part of planned PCB dredging of the Hudson River at Fort Edward, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.