(Excerpted From EPA website)
Release date:01/30/2006
Contact: Dave Ryan, 202-564-4355 / ryan.dave@epa.gov
(Washington, D.C.-Jan. 30, 2006) EPA’s Environmental Appeals Board (EAB) today approved the first 20 Air compliance agreements for animal feeding operations (AFOs). Under these agreements, the AFOs will participate in a nationwide project to evaluate the air emissions from animal feeding operations and use this [...]
(From AG’s website)
DES MOINES. The Attorney General’s Office filed six lawsuits around the state Wednesday to enforce Iowa law and environmental regulations concerning underground storage tanks used to hold gasoline and other petroleum products.
In each case, owners or operators had failed to comply with attempts by the Iowa Department of Natural Resources (DNR) [...]
EPA Significantly Strengthens and Expands Protections for Human Studies Research
(excerpted from EPA website)
Under the new rules announced on January 26, 2006, all third-party intentional dosing research on pesticides involving children and pregnant women intended for submission to EPA is banned, and EPA will neither conduct nor support any intentional dosing studies that involve pregnant [...]