The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has made a preliminary determination to regulate strontium in the nation's drinking water. Strontium is a naturally occurring element that, at elevated levels, can impact bone strength in people who ...
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The U.S. Food and Drug Administration has?reached a settlement with?the Center for Food Safety (CFS) and the Center for Environmental Health?regarding the deadlines for publishing final rules implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act ...
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In a long-anticipated move, the US Environmental Protection Agency on Tuesday released guidelines for the use of diesel fuel in hydraulic fracturing fluid. The guidelines bring the agency into compliance with the Energy Policy Act of ...
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To help dairy companies understand the next proposed rule to be released under the Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA), IDFA will host a webinar on “Sanitary Food Transportation” on February 14, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m. Eastern time. ...
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Two congressmen have introduced bipartisan legislation that would require the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration to write a regulation covering sleep disorders, rather than issue a guidance as it is planning to do. Reps. Larry ...
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Both the American Trucking Associations (ATA) and Owner-Operator Independent Drivers Association (OOIDA) are supporting new legislation that will require the US government to follow the established rulemaking process when introducing ...
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We’re now into our sixth year since the amended Canadian hours-of-service regulations came into effect on Jan. 1, 2007. Remember those heady days? I remember being impressed by the sleep research that had been done leading up to those ...
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Citing a lack of data on hydraulic fracturing specific to their state, a team of University of California-Berkeley researchers this week released a report calling for better tracking of frack jobs and handling of fracking wastewater. In a ...
The National Electrical Manufacturers Association (NEMA) in the States expressed its “overall satisfaction” with the Department of Energy’s (DoE) final rule establishing increased energy conservation standards for ...
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Momentum is growing in the U.S. Congress to overturn a U.S. Library of Congress ruling that took mobile phone unlocking out of the legal exemptions to the Digital Millennium Copyright Act. Late Monday, a group of senators and ...
U.S. President Barack Obama's administration has sided with more than 100,000 petition signers who asked the government to legalize the unlocking of smartphones. The White House on Monday agreed with petitioners who asked the Library of ...
The Federal Communications Commission is planning to launch a variety of initiatives to spur the development and adoption of broadband-enabled healthcare devices and applications, with the overriding goal of establishing mobile health ...
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Embattled satellite carrier LightSquared proposed on Friday that the government let it share spectrum with federal uses such as weather balloons so it can get enough spectrum to launch its proposed national LTE mobile network. ...
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Formaldehyde is produced on a large scale worldwide. One major use includes the production of wood binding adhesives and resins. The Air Resources Board (ARB) evaluated formaldehyde exposure in California and found that one of the major ...
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SACRAMENTO,Calif.—For upholstered furniture makers,the end result of a flammability rulemaking process that started this month will likely be a label saying their furniture is compliant. But getting to that point will be a long ...
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