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Daily Environment Report
June 06, 2017 - Number 108
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Leading the News
Chemicals EPA `Safer Choice' Label Program, Criteria Under Fire Does a detergent that Procter & Gamble Co. makes merit a `safer' label designation? The issue has re-ignited a debate among trade association executives over the type of analysis needed to justify such labels.
News
Biotechnology Syngenta Faces 7,000 Kansas Farmers in Dispute Over Modified Corn Farmers have to deal with threats to their crops from nature all the time. Thousands of Kansans argue, however, that Syngenta AG posed an even bigger threat by failing to prevent its genetically modified corn seed from contaminating U.S. crops, which led to a devastating rejection of imports by Chinese officials.
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The e-commerce industry's appetite for warehouse space near major cities is boosting
demand for brownfields as well as environmental insurance.
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Environmentalists are employing a seldom-used legal maneuver to fight a recent decision
that would allow the continued use of a toxic chemical in food packaging.
Climate Change
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Hunt - n imp's Climate Views Like `Chasing Rabbit,' Perry Says People shouldn't focus on whether U.S. President Donald Trump believes climate change is real, according to one of his own Cabinet members.
Climate Policy U.K. Doesn't Think Paris Climate Deal Needs to Be Renegotiated Prime Minister Theresa May's government doesn't think the Paris climate deal needs to be renegotiated, her spokeswoman said, pitching Britain behind the position held by France, Germany and Italy.
Cost Recovery U.S. Subject to Superfund Suit Over Waste On Navajo Land Kinder Morgan subsidiary El Paso Natural Gas can pursue Superfund cleanup costs from the federal government for uranium mining waste on land held in trust for the Navajo Nation, the District of Arizona ruled (El Paso Nat. Gas Co. v. United States, 2017 BL 186291, D. Ariz., No. 14-CV-08165, 6/2/17).
Disclosure Most Companies Report as Usual on Conflict Minerals Corporate disclosures on sourcing of minerals that have been linked to conflict and human rights abuses in Africa are largely unchanged this year despite the Securities and Exchange Commission's relaxed regulatory stance.
Energy China Is Said to Halt New Electric-Car Production Permits China plans to halt issuing permits to produce electric vehicles pending a review of the policy because of concern additional approvals may lead to a glut in the world's biggest auto market, according to people familiar with the matter.
Hazardous Waste Retail Industry Seeks EPA Answers on Hazardous Waste The retail industry is still waiting for the EPA to address a fundamental question: When does a product become waste?
International Climate ip Exit Spurs State, Corporate Vows to Back Climate Pact
U.S. cities, states and companies vowed June 5 to try to shore up support for climate action in the aftermath of President Donald Trump's June 1 vow to exit the Paris climate pact.
Nanotechnology No New Data Needed for Nanomaterials Rule, EPA Official Says Companies making and processing nanoengineered chemicals do not have to generate new information to comply with the agency's data collection rule that is effective in August, an EPA manager said.
Oil & Gas EPA Taken to Court Over Methane Rule Pause A coalition of environmental groups is taking the EPA to court over its decision to halt an Obama-era regulation on methane emissions from the oil and gas industry.
Oil & Gas Fisheries Service Proposes OKs for Atlantic Seismic Work Five companies are a step closer to conducting seismic surveys to identify offshore oil and
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natural gas prospects in the U.S. Atlantic.
Renewable Energy !> 1 p's Paris Exit Sidelines D.C. for Danes Blazing Wind Trail For Denmark, which relies more on wind energy than any other nation on the planet, June 1 was a pretty bad day.
U.S. Budget Amid Rancor, Evidence-Based Policy Panel Leaders Optimistic You'll see us in September and we're bringing recommendations.
Water Pollution How Hard Will Pruitt Crack Down on Lake Erie Farmers? The business of growing food in the upper Midwest may be about to significantly change.
Water Pollution N.C. Farm, Owner Fined For Discharging Cow Waste A North Carolina farm and its owner have been sentenced on criminal charges for violating the Clean Water Act by discharging animal waste into a tributary of the French Broad River without a permit.
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