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Between a Bush and a Workplace Bush admin proposes rule that could delay workplace toxics standards		02 Sep 2008	News
Posted at 6:20 AM on 02 Sep 2008 Last week, the Bush administration published a proposed rule that would add an extra step to the process of creating federal standards for toxics and other hazardous substances in the workplace. The rule, which was reportedly rushed so it could take effect before President Bush leaves office, has been widely criticized by unions and other worker advocates as an un ...
Topics: business, news, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

It's Us Against Chem Feds rush to weaken workplace safety rules on toxics before term ends		23 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 9:10 AM on 23 Jul 2008 The Bush administration is trying to push through a new workplace safety rule to weaken workers' protections against toxic chemicals before Bush's term ends, according to The Washington Post. The rule, which has not been made public, would mandate a reevaluation of the methods used to measure risks to workers from toxic exposure in the workplace. The rule would also requir ...
Topics: business, news, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Something to 'Hyde Companies knew about high formaldehyde levels in FEMA trailers, Dems say		10 Jul 2008	News
Posted at 8:03 AM on 10 Jul 2008 Democrats on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee said RV trailer manufacturers knew that the trailers they sold to the government had excessively high levels of formaldehyde but didn't disclose the information for fear of bad press. The trailers, which were used to house hurricane victims on the Gulf Coast, have been a touchy subject at FEMA ever since occ ...
Topics: business, news, politics, toxics, United States (all these topics)

'How Now?' Frowns Dow Dow Chemical ordered to clean up dioxin downstream of headquarters		29 May 2008	News
Posted at 11:51 AM on 29 May 2008 Dow Chemical on Wednesday was ordered to clean up dioxin in homes and yards downstream of its Michigan headquarters, the result of dumping dioxin-laden chemicals in nearby rivers for decades. Test results revealed yesterday show dioxin levels in and around a number of houses some 20 miles downstream exceed by a few times the level considered reasonably safe by the U.S. EPA. ...
Topics: business, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Numb31Mrs CBS to pay $31 million to clean up Indiana Superfund sites		20 Feb 2008	News
Posted at 7:43 AM on 20 Feb 2008 The media giant CBS has agreed to pay $31 million to clean up six ultra-polluted Superfund sites around Bloomington, Ind. CBS is the corporate successor of Westinghouse, which ran industrial operations in the area that polluted streams and groundwater with high concentrations of PCBs. An agreement to clean up the contamination in the 1990s was abandoned; CBS has been negotiating another deal wi ...
Topics: business, Indiana, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

A Batt Out of Hell Mattel, Toys		19 Feb 2008	News
"R" Us to phase out cadmium batteries, citing toxicity Posted at 6:49 AM on 19 Feb 2008 Toy giants Mattel and Toys "R" Us have announced they will phase out cadmium batteries due to their toxicity and the associated health problems they can cause at the factories in China that produce them. Scores of factory workers have been sickened by cadmium, which can cause lung cancer, bone disease, and kidney failure, but cadmium batteries are still use ...
Topics: business, China, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Border in the Court U.S. Supreme Court refuses Canadian company's pollution suit appeal		08 Jan 2008	News
Posted at 5:42 AM on 08 Jan 2008 The U.S. Supreme Court has refused to hear an appeal from a Canadian mining company in a cross-border pollution case, in effect sustaining an earlier appeals court ruling holding the company liable for pollution under U.S. law. Just 10 miles north of the U.S. border in British Columbia, the mining company Teck Cominco has been operating a smelter that from 1892 until 1994 du ...
Topics: business, Canada, international politics, litigation, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

Hold the Phone Activists threaten to sue Apple over chemicals in iPhone		16 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 8:09 AM on 16 Oct 2007 Greenpeace claimed recently that Apple's much-hyped iPhone contains dangerous levels of phthalates, chlorine, and bromine, and now another environmental group, the Center for Environmental Health in Oakland, Calif., has sent the company a formal warning claiming that Apple violated California's Proposition 65, which requires companies to warn consumers of the risk of toxic exposure. "Th ...
Topics: business, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

The Lead Badge of Discourage More toys recalled due to lead, including Boy Scout badges		05 Oct 2007	News
Posted at 7:15 AM on 05 Oct 2007 Over 1.5 million more children's toys and accessories were recalled in the U.S. on Thursday due to high lead levels. We had put our money on toy cars being among the next items recalled, but we stand corrected. Whoever said blocks, squeeze lights, wagons, Frankenstein cups, key chains, journals, water bottles, or lead-painted Boy Scout badges wins. All the parents and kids wh ...
Topics: business, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

U.S. Companies: Working to Keep Europeans Safe American firms conforming to E.U. chemical regs		17 May 2005	Daily Grist
U.S. Companies: Working to Keep Europeans Safe American firms conforming to E.U. chemical regs Though the U.S. was once a global leader in environmental regulation, that is, to put it mildly, no longer true. Now, the real challenge for many U.S. companies is complying with the stringent standards that govern the European Union market -- if they want to reach its 460 million consumers. Using a "b ...
Topics: business, European Union, news, toxics, United States (all these topics)

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