The Hill, 12 March 2017
The head of the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is fueling speculation that he could try to repeal the lynchpin of the federal government’s climate change regulations. In an interview Thursday with CNBC, Scott Pruitt cast doubt on his own agency’s 2009 conclusion that greenhouse gases ‘endanger both the public …
Cal-OSHA Reporter, 10 March 2017
The United States House of Representatives has voted to repeal – to rein in – a new Fed-OSHA rule on injury and illness recordkeeping. It is a certainty that Senate will follow suit and that President Donald Trump will sign it. But what does this mean for Cal/OSHA and, …
ECHA Stakeholders’ Day Conference (live web-stream available), Helsinki, Finland, April 4-5, 2017
Chemical Watch Expo 2017, Berlin, Germany, April 25-26, 2017
Society of Environmental Toxicology and Chemistry Annual Meeting, Brussels, Belgium, May 7-11, 2017
American Industrial Hygiene Conference and Exhibition, Seattle, WA, June 4-7, 2017
A Cal/OSHA proposal to tweak the Title 8 requirements for employer emergency action plans received favorable comments at its February public hearing. As representatives of employer groups are feeling positive about the proposal, it is on its way to board adoption which could possibly happen this month.
The proposal would revise General Industry Safety …
Trump Unveils New Pick to Head Labor Department– “President Trump on Thursday announced he was nominating Alexander Acosta to be his Labor secretary, less than 24 hours after his first nominee for the position withdrew amid criticism from Republican senators. ‘He has had a tremendous career,’ Trump said of Acosta in a press …
Daily Journal, 25 January 2017
On Jan. 13, the U.S. Supreme Court granted certiorari in a case involving the controversial Clean Water rule (often referred to as the ‘Waters of the United States’ or ‘WOTUS’ rule) issued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency.
Just one week later—on …
Summarized from the State of Green Business Report 2017, GreenBiz Group Inc., January 2017
Look for an increasing trend of “blockchain” emerging technologies supporting sustainability. A sort of digital ledger, a blockchain is a decentralized database that records transactions of almost any type and automatically enforces contracts related to them, based on conditions defined …
EHS and Sustainability Software and Data Management Conference, Houston, TX, March 6-8, 2017
Safer Chemicals in Products 2017, San Francisco, CA, March 27-28, 2017
Biocides USA 2017, San Francisco, CA, March 29-30, 2017
Technological Innovation and Organizational Changes; Potential Impacts on Prevention, Nancy, France, March 29-31, 2017
[WP] Trump Transition Leader’s Goal Is Two-Thirds Cut in EPA Employees – “The red lights are flashing at the Environmental Protection Agency. The words of Myron Ebell, the former head of President Trump’s EPA transition team, warn employees of a perilous future. Ebell wants the agency to go on a severe diet. It’s one that …
Zika Virus—10 Public Health Achievements in 2016 and Future Priorities– “Seventy years after CDC was founded to fight mosquitoes that carried malaria, CDC found itself entrenched in combat with another mosquito-borne illness, Zika virus. CDC activated its Emergency Operations Center to fight Zika on January 22, 2016, after a widespread Zika outbreak in …
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