BIO Urges EPA to Fully Consider Impacts of Renewable Fuel Standard Waiver Requests

20-Aug-2012 - The Renewable Fuel Standard provides the fundamental foundation driving private investment in America’s advanced biofuels industry. The Biotechnology Industry Organization (BIO) responded to formal requests by Gov. Bev Perdue (D-N.C.) and Gov. Mike Beebe (D-Ark.) that the Environmental Protection ...

EPA awards UH lead role to study toxin effects on embryonic development

$3.2M grant to explore how chemicals affect human health, which ones may cause serious diseases

13-Aug-2009 - Most people would agree that arsenic, lead, mercury, benzene and carbon monoxide pose dangers to humans. Not many, though, realize that the average person is exposed to about 10,000 different chemicals per day. Thanks to a $3.2 million grant from the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and its ...

Are nanoscale materials new or existing chemical substances

EPA Foregoes Opportunity to Improve Nanotechnology Oversight

17-Jul-2007 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency released its current thinking on whether a nanoscale material is a new or existing chemical substance under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). In the document, TSCA Inventory Status of Nanoscale Substances-General Approach, EPA states that it will ...

EPA Extends Registration For Monsanto's Yieldgard Rootworm And Yieldgard Plus Insect-Protected Corn Technologies

02-Aug-2006 - The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has extended the registration of two YieldGard insect-protected corn technologies developed by Monsanto Company. The registration for YieldGard Rootworm insect-protected corn technology (event MON 863) has been extended through the 2010 growing ...