For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. The calculations done by scientists at IRIS, as it was commonly known, underpin vast numbers of chemical regulations, permits and other environmental rules in the U.S. and abroad. Now the Trump administration is suggesting…
Shorouk Express The Commission presented its Environmental Omnibus package today (10 December), aimed at simplifying EU environmental legislation across several areas, including permitting, emissions standards, hazardous-waste treatment, extended producer responsibility (EPR), and the use of geospatial data.One area where changes had been anticipated was the EPR obligations for the cosmetic and pharmaceutical sectors under the…
Shorouk Express Health commissioner says he will do ‘everything in his power’ to correct unfair burden embedded in the legislation. Speaking at the opening of a new EGIS plant, in Kőbánya, Budapest, the EU’s Health Commissioner Olivér Várhelyi said that he hoped that the Biotech Act would be published before the end of the year…
