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EPA has finalized a non-binding paper on the Office of Pesticide Programs' procedural guidance for policy development (69 FR 66432; see PTCN, March 24, Page 9). OPP said the goal [...]

Pesticide & Toxic Chemical News presents the second and final installment of its 2007 policy outlook. Last week, we presented the views from EPA and environmental groups, along with quick [...]

The National Conference of State Legislatures is calling for the phaseout of all persistent, bioaccumulative and toxic chemicals (PBTs), except for critical uses that lack viable alternatives. The recommendation is [...]

Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology--July 15-17 The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) is hosting a conference on Potential Environmental Benefits of Nanotechnology: Fostering Safe Innovation-Led Growth. The conference [...]

EPA last week reopened the public comment period on its preliminary determination to not regulate perchlorate in drinking water after receiving numerous requests from stakeholders to extend the comment period. [...]

The European Chemicals Agency's candidate list of potentially hazardous chemicals--substances of very high concern (SVHC)--is entirely insufficient, say a number of lead policy advisors and environmental organizations. Advisor to the [...]

Member-state environment ministers will put the European Union's biotech approvals system back under the microscope next week barely four months after a majority revealed serious discontent with the way the [...]

A Senate panel last week criticized the Bush administration for proposing inadequate funding for EPA's oversight of the nation's water infrastructure and for its science programs. EPA Administrator Mike Leavitt [...]

A revised REACH proposal was presented and passed by the European Commission last week. The policy (Registration, Evaluation, Authorization of Chemicals) will now head to the European Parliament and the [...]

A coalition of industry groups has asked the Supreme Court to review a 2002 ruling that labeled aerial pesticide applications near water bodies 'point sources' of pollution. On July 28, [...]

EPA and industry aren't likely to enter into any enforceable consent agreements on perfluorooctanoic acid and fluorinated telomers until this fall. At a June 10 public hearing on the ECA [...]

The European Parliament has backed the European Union Council of Ministers' preferred option of a 0.9% threshold for biotech labeling of food products, while rejecting an amendment for a 0.5% [...]

Efforts to validate endocrine-disruptor assays are intensifying as EPA faces mounting deadline pressure to ramp up the screening program mandated by the FQPA. The Endocrine Disruptor Methods Validation Subcommittee met [...]

Responding to the pending expansion of the European Union, the European Commission last month proposed a strategy to sharpen the EU focus on environmental problems in former Soviet states and [...]

Oregonians are paying higher electric bills to protect local salmon populations from pesticides and other pollutants, according to the Oregonian. Shortly after a National Marine Fisheries laboratory in Seattle reported [...]

Oregon's Pesticide Use Reporting System isn't even fully operational but that hasn't stopped legislators and stakeholders from trying to change it. A bill recently introduced in the state legislature would [...]

The Bush administration has said it will request certain uses of methyl bromide be exempted from a 2005 ban called for in an international treaty, according to an article in [...]

EPA reached some important milestones in pesticide regulation during 2002. Completing and revising its first-ever cumulative risk assessment stands out as a major achievement for the agency's Office of Pesticide [...]

EPA officials last week provided a panel of state regulators with updates on agency initiatives of particular interest to the states. The full State FIFRA Issues Research and Evaluation Group [...]

Massachusetts is preparing to ward off West Nile virus for yet another summer. Public health officials say that while no humans, birds or mosquitoes have tested positive for the virus [...]

A new report from Greenpeace claims that children are being 'needlessly exposed to hazardous and inadequately tested' chemicals via vinyl plastic childcare products and home furnishings. As described in 'The [...]

Virtually all chemical plants are ignoring a Clean Air Act (CAA) mandate for chemical companies to develop and disseminate Risk Management Plans (RMPs) for worst case scenario accidents, according to [...]

Environmental scientists are calling for more research into the potential toxic effects of endocrine disrupting pesticides and an emphasis on developing crop protection compounds that do not have this mechanism [...]