Environmental groups are requesting that EPA strip certain coal states of their authority to issue Clean Water Act (CWA) permits, contending that the states improperly accepted wastewater discharge permit applications…
In a press release issued on 18 August 2014, the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA) announced that, following an agreement with the European Commission (EC), the company names of non-EU entities…
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) has released a fact sheet on protecting workers during a pandemic. OSHA describes a pandemic as a global disease outbreak that can be…
A press release of the Bundestag issued on 2 September 2014 notifies a draft law of the Federal Government dated 1 September 2014 (document number 18/2444), aiming to modify the…
On August 25, 2014 the Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OSHA) and the National Institute for Occupational Health and Safety (NIOSH) jointly released Recommended Practices to protect temporary workers. These…
Regulation (EU) No 900/2014 of 15 July 2014 amends, for the purpose of its adaptation to technical progress, Regulation (EC) No 440/2008 laying down test methods pursuant to Regulation (EC)…
On August 26, 2014 the Chemical Safety Board’s (CSB) Chairperson, Doctor Rafael Moure-Eraso, warned about the danger of hot work on tanks containing biological or organic material. Hot work dangers…
The province of Nova Scotia announced its plans to ban hydraulic fracturing, or fracking, this fall. The moratorium is not permanent but a timetable for the ban was not announced.…
In a press release issued on 27 August 2014, the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) announced that, through the entry into force on 26 August 2014 of its…
A consortium of companies that had received authorization to dump millions of cubic meters of dredged sand into the Great Barrier Reef has announced plans to propose an alternative dumping…