Legal Planet

MAY 29, 2024

Indeed, the PFAS disaster points once again to the failure of our laws regulating toxic chemicals, which were intended to avoid just these sorts of problems. But even after twenty years of effort, basic safety information is still missing for the vast majority of chemicals sold in the EU.

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Environmental Science

JULY 30, 2018

For concentration, use the metric system of mass per unit volume or mass per unit mass if you want a job from me in environmental science. There is still room for improvement, however, and environmental science is still working on it. The stated goal of the Clean Water Act is “zero discharge.” The Clean Air Act.

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Environmental Science

SEPTEMBER 7, 2018

Useful Environmental Law Terms. Abatement : The process of reducing the quantity, intensity, or saturation of a pollutant or other harmful substance by way of treatment. Title III of the Act created EPCRA (see above). Sponsored Content.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 14, 2023

As an industrial chemical, vinyl chloride was one of the 62,000 chemicals “in commerce” at the time that the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) was enacted in 1976, which means that it was essentially grandfathered in under the statute and presumed to be safe unless and until EPA made a finding of “unreasonable risk.”

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