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media7 | March 11, 2020

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with The Uni-Kool Partners (Uni-Kool) corporation to resolve alleged violations of the federal Clean Air Act. The violations pertain to chemical accident prevention requirements at Uni-Kool’s produce storage and distribution facility in Yuma. Uni-Kool will pay a $26,250 civil penalty and spend at least $98,438 to further improve environmental, health and safety conditions at the facility. Uni-Kool’s industrial refr...

EHS Daily Advisor | February 03, 2020

The authority of the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB) to subpoena information relating to potential future risks was affirmed by a panel of judges with the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit. The defendant in the case had contended that the CSB’s subpoena authority was limited to information about the cause or probable cause of an accidental chemical release that occurred in 2015, not about any event that hasn’t happened. A U.S. District Court judge ag...

chemical watch | April 02, 2020

Mexico's health authority has proposed an overarching national chemicals policy that would place the burden of proof on companies to show substances they import or use in the country are safe, and would allow the government to restrict or ban those that pose an "unacceptable risk". The policy proposes a general law for the Comprehensive Management of Chemical Substances, which would establish an inventory of all chemicals used in the country and require producers or importers to &q...

EPA | January 14, 2020

Environmental and trade union organisations have sued the US EPA for gutting regulations designed to improve safety at chemical facilities. The lawsuits aim to reverse a Trump administration rollback of the Obama-era Chemical Disaster Rule. The original rule – which took the form of an amendment to the Risk Management Program (RMP) – was meant to make it easier for the public to access hazard planning documents, provide increased information to local officials and require more coordi...