EPA Moves to Ease Standards on Use of Toxic Chemicals
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By ALEX NUSSBAUM, STAFF WRITER  The federal government wants to let companies in North Jersey and around the nation quadruple the amount of toxic chemicals they can use without reporting details.  The change could save businesses millions, the government said.
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By LARA JAKES JORDAN  WASHINGTON - Congressional Republicans agreed Thursday to let the government shut down chemical plants that fail to meet security standards. The deal would expand federal oversight of an industry vulnerable to terrorist attacks.
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The state-led push could weaken the EPA's emissions-trading system, which is popular with industry.
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With the rise in prescription drug abuse, three federal agencies issued guidelines earlier this year for disposing of medications without harming the environment.
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By Bangor Daily News, Maine  Sep. 23--A compromise bill on chemical security would allow the federal government to shut down plants that don't meet security requirements, but doesn't require companies to stop using toxic chemicals.
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U.S. regulators issued new manufacturing standards on Friday for vitamins, herbs and other dietary supplements that are meant to make sure the products are free of contaminants and accurately labeled.
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By Anonymous  In a new report, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration's (NOAA's) National Center for Coastal Ocean Sciences has found a continuing decrease in toxic organic chemicals in mollusks, specifically mussels and oysters, collected at more than 230 sites nationwide.
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The Environmental Protection Agency said Thursday that current smog standards don't sufficiently protect public health and proposed tightening them for the first time in a decade.
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The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to announce today that current federal standards for limiting harmful ozone air pollution do not adequately protect the public and need to be strengthened.
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The U.S. government approved new air   pollution standards on Thursday, promising "cleaner air to all   Americans," but health and environmental groups said the   revised rules are too weak to protect against lung disease and   other pollution-related ailments.
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The European Parliament is to vote on legislation to control the use of toxic chemicals in industry.
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By Bob Downing, The Akron Beacon Journal, Ohio  Dec. 11--The Ohio Environmental Protection Agency wants to curtail emissions from paints and industrial coatings to help clean the air of harmful ozone.
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The Bush administration is making headway with other nations in setting new global standards to reduce dangerous emissions from giant diesel-burning ships that are polluting U.S. ports, a senior environmental official said Thursday. An emergency room physician described a "diesel death zone" around major U.S. seaports, with higher cancer rates and other health risks.
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Tougher emissions regulations may mean an end to that cherished American tradition.
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The government moved a step closer Friday to gaining approval to dispose of 34 tons of weapons-grade plutonium by turning it into a less dangerous fuel for commercial power reactors.
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By David Goldstein, McClatchy Washington Bureau  Sep. 16--WASHINGTON -- The Environmental Protection Agency intends to  close labs, cut its cadre of upper-level scientists and reduce regulatory  oversight, according to an internal agency document.
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BRUSSELS, Oct 23 (IPS) - Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) are  seeking that pesticide use be halved within a decade in order to  reduce the amount of hazardous chemicals in the environment.