The U.S. EPA has signed a pair of consent agreements with the U.S. Department of Energy and two contractors to resolve alleged violations of federal asbestos handling regulations at the Hanford Site near Richland, Washington. Today's ...
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The U.S. Department of Agriculture and the Environmental Protection Agency today announced a joint initiative to improve access to clean water and wastewater infrastructure for U.S. communities along the Mexico border. This initiative is ...
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Malaysia External Trade Development Corporation (MATRADE) today released a statement saying that the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) recently proposed changes on product label of processed food sold in the US market. The main ...
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Australia's food and grocery body welcomes Government's deregulation moves The Australian food and grocery sector is supportive of the Australian Government's actions to reduce the regulatory burden on business, according to industry body ...
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EPA's SmartWay Transport Partnership is celebrating 10 years as a market-driven initiative that empowers businesses to move goods in the cleanest most energy-efficient way possible, saving businesses money while protecting public health and ...
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Scottish government is set to launch a new food safety regulator, Food Standards Scotland (FSS), which will takeover the operations carried out by UK organization, the Food Standards Agency (FSA). The announcement comes as Food (Scotland) ...
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The World Health Organisation (WHO) has begun public consultation on its draft guidelines on sugar intake, which recommends that sugars should be less than 10 per cent of total energy intake per day, but that reduction to below 5 per cent ...
A team of U.S. researchers says it discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight drug-resistant bacteria that threaten public health. Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery of the University of Notre Dame said the new class of antibiotics ...
A team of University of Notre Dame researchers led by Mayland Chang and Shahriar Mobashery have discovered a new class of antibiotics to fight bacteria such as methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) and other drug-resistant ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the City of Bellflower, Calif. yesterday celebrated the grand opening of "Fronk's," a new restaurant built on a former gas station with help from $65,000 in funds from EPA's Brownfields and ...
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FDA proposed format nutrition labels The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has proposed to update the Nutrition Facts label for packaged foods to reflect the latest scientific information, including the link between diet and chronic ...
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Alpha Natural Resources, Inc. (Alpha), one of the nation's largest coal companies, Alpha Appalachian Holdings (formerly Massey Energy), and 66 subsidiaries have agreed to spend an estimated $200 million to install and operate wastewater ...
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Beginning in 2017, all gasoline sold in the US must contain less than 10 parts per million sulfur, the US Environmental Protection Agency announced Monday, dismissing oil industry arguments that the new standard is unnecessary and could ...
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The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is awarding $12.7 million in grants to help small drinking and wastewater systems – those serving fewer than 10,000 people – and to private well owners. The grantees will provide training ...
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In a Review published in The Lancet Neurology, two of the world's leading experts on the link between environment and children's health are sounding the alarm on the dangers of industrial chemicals. They are calling on countries to ...