Jim Jones, Deputy Assistant Administrator of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention at the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), will speak at the upcoming ASC Spring Convention.
Total toxic air releases in 2011 declined eight percent from 2010, mostly because of decreases in hazardous air pollutant (HAP) emissions, even while total releases of toxic chemicals increased for the second year in a row, according to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) annual Toxics Release Inventory (TRI) report.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the U.S. Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC) are collaborating in a worldwide research effort to assess any potential impacts of nanomaterials on people’s health and the environment.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), announced two funding opportunities for up to 10 grants, totaling up to $32 million, for research on the design of safer chemicals.
