TRADE-MALAWI:   Government Joins Chorus of Concern about EPA
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BLANTYRE, Aug 23  (IPS) - Manufacturers, exporters and even government  officials in Malawi are jittery about January 1, 2008. On that  day the economic partnership agreements (EPAs), currently being  negotiated between the European Union (EU) and six groupings of  African, Caribbean and Pacific (ACP) countries, will come into  force.
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NAIROBI, Nov 3 (IPS) - An unexpected challenge has been directed at the  economic partnership agreement (EPA) being negotiated between the  European Union and the east and southern African group. Two lobby  groups have filed a law suit in Kenya to halt the signing of the  EPA.
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Those fuel-economy estimates posted on new cars and trucks are baloney. The government agency in charge of them doesn&#39;t mean them to be; in fact, the US Environmental Protection Agency seems unusually scrupulous about its ...
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A document released by the FDA outlines its concerns with GPC's lead drug.
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NAIROBI, Sept 19  (IPS) - Failure to conclude an economic partnership  agreement (EPA) with the European Union (EU) by the end-of-year  deadline will have serious implications for Kenyan exporters,  including those in the booming horticultural industry.
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By Darrin Youker, Reading Eagle, Pa.  Mar. 11--Since 1982, residents in Bally have had problems with contamination in their municipal water supply.  But in a few months, the federal Environmental Protection Agency finally expects to remedy the situation.
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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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Malawi, one of the biggest producers of tobacco, is coming under pressure to sign a new treaty limiting its production.
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By Messenger-Inquirer, Owensboro, Ky.  Jun. 14--Some people believe that conserving natural resources and protecting the environment are moral issues. An article in Sunday's Messenger-Inquirer written by reporter James Mayse examined that very question.
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Bush administration proposes development-friendly policies that it says will protect fish. Environmentalists are outraged. By Brad Knickerbocker | Staff writer of The Christian Science Monitor.
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WINDHOEK, February 15  (IPS) - The Southern African Development Community (SADC)  should engage in serious discussions to prevent the economic  partnership agreement (EPA) with the European Union from  destroying its regional integration efforts.
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Americans were cautioned about eating fish from more than one-third of U.S. lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers last year due to pollution from mercury and other chemicals, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency said on Tuesday.
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The board, which met this weekend, reportedly expressed concern about regulatory scrutiny.
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A pressure group is formed to urge Hong Kong's government to act on air quality amid warnings over costs to the economy.
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An influential trade association says our northern neighbor should be added to a high-priority government watch list. In 27B Stroke 6.
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WASHINGTON -- An Environmental Protection Agency report charging that the agency undermined its own lawsuits against air polluters by changing key regulations was praised Friday by environmentalists and condemned by industry groups and the EPA itself.
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More than one-third of the nation's lakes and nearly one-fourth of its rivers contain fish that may be contaminated with mercury, dioxin, PCB and pesticide pollution, the Environmental Protection Agency says.