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After several unsuccessful attempts to ban single-use plastic bags, a Senate committee in Oregon voted to introduce a bill that would impose a five cent per bag tax on single-use plastic checkout bags by retailers selling food and alcohol. Collected tax monies would be deposited in a new Plastic Clean-Up and Recycling Fund. The preliminary bill, LC 795, also would require retail establishments to provide single-use paper bags at checkout, as well as have a receptacle for the return of single-use plastic checkout bags. Civil penalties of up to $500 could be collected for violation of the excise tax program once it becomes operative in July 2020.
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The European Commission and ECHA have signed an agreement for the Agency to provide recommendations on a regular basis for occupational exposure limits (OELs) that protect workers exposed to hazardous chemicals. The agreement requires ECHA to assess four to five OELs per year from 2020 onwards. "The preparation of scientific dossiers proposing...
First, the good news: plaintiffs in a 2013 lawsuit against the Environmental Protection Agency(EPA) can allow themselves a small victory dance. In that suit, plaintiffs made a number of claimsrelated to EPA’s failure to protect pollinators from dangerous pesticides, its poor oversight of the bee-killing pesticides clothianidin&...
Today, the third conference of the UN Partnership for Action on Green Economy (PAGE) started in Cape Town. Parliamentary State Secretary Rita Scharzelühr-Sutter attended the conference on behalf of the Federal Environment Ministry. High-ranking representatives from politics, industry, the public, science and UN organisations discusse...
Another tumultuous year in the Australian Parliament concluded with no Senate consideration of the Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017. A push by some parties in the Senate for amendments to Industrial Chemicals Bill 2017 may stand in the way of the timely introduction of a workable animal test ban that matches the approach currently in place in Eu...
WASHINGTON, D.C. – Today, U.S. Senators Tom Carper (D-Del.), top Democrat on the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee (EPW), and Susan Collins (R-Maine) reintroduced the Comprehensive National Mercury Monitoring Act, a bipartisan bill that would establish a national mercury monitoring network to protect human health, s...
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