Substance Registry Services. The Substance Registry Services (SRS) is EPA's authoritative resource for information about chemicals, biological organisms, and others substance tracked or regulated by EPA.
As part of EPA’s chemical safety program, EPA has identified a work plan of chemicals for further assessment under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA). EPA's TSCA Work Plan helps focus and direct the activities of its Existing Chemicals Program.
Eicosapentaenoic acid (EPA; also icosapentaenoic acid) is an omega-3 fatty acid.In physiological literature, it is given the name 20:5(n-3). It also has the trivial name timnodonic acid.In chemical structure, EPA is a carboxylic acid with a 20-carbon chain and five cis double bonds; the first double bond is located at the third carbon from the omega end.
Funded by EPA's Office of Compliance and Enforcement and operated by a partnership of environmental professionals in government, industry, and academia, ChemAlliance is a source of up-to-date information concerning the environmental regulations affecting the chemical industry.
More on Priority Chemicals. This list of 31 Priority Chemicals replaces the list of 53 chemicals EPA identified in its 1998 Federal Register "Notice of Availability: Draft RCRA Waste Minimization Persistent, Bioaccumulative and Toxic (PBT) Chemical List" [Federal Register: November 9, 1998. Volume 63, Number 216. Page 60332-60343].
This chemical inventory is OSHA's premier one-stop shop for occupational chemical information. It compiles information from several government agencies and organizations. Information available on the pages includes: Chemical identification and physical properties; Exposure limits; Sampling information, and; Additional resources.
The Central Data Exchange concept has been defined as a central point which supplements EPA reporting systems by performing new and existing functions for receiving legally acceptable data in various formats, including consolidated and integrated data.
Chemical Property Values Partitioning of chemicals between environmental media (water, air, soil) are partly determined by properties of the chemicals themselves. Values of these properties often can be obtained from the scientific literature that reports on measured values.
US EPA Pesticide Regregistration Chemical Status Page. The table below shows the status of each chemical in the reregistration review process, and provides links to a chemical's Web page and any decision documents or fact sheets that are available.
The rule that the EPA finalized in the last days of the Obama administration required certain categories of facilities to beef up their chemical safety measures: troubleshooting root causes of ...
A chemical formula is a way of expressing information about the proportions of atoms that constitute a particular chemical compound, using a single line of chemical element symbols and numbers.
Chemical and Physical Properties Database Pennsylvania Land Recycling Program; CHEMFATE Chemical Search Syracuse Research Corporation; Database of parameters in use by State and Federal Agencies. Preferred values of chemical properties have been compiled by State and Federal Agencies for use in environmental programs.
The D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday that the Environmental Protection Agency must implement "life-saving protections" that prevent the accidental release of toxic chemicals into the air and help emergency workers respond to chemical disasters.
The EPA identifies the new chemical’s potential health hazard endpoints based on the acrylate/acrylamide category. Causes for concern for acrylamide and certain low molecular acrylamide analogs include mutagenicity, developmental toxicity, reproductive effects, neurotoxicity, and a “marginal potential” for oncogenicity.
May 26, 2018· Journalists weren't the only ones shut out from the Environmental Protection Agency's conference this week on chemically contaminated drinking water. Many victims of water polluted by per- and ...
U.S. EPA and Ohio EPA use a multiple barrier approach to defend against waterborne pathogens and chemical contaminants in drinking water. Protection against contaminants occurs at each step from source to tap, beginning in the watershed or aquifer recharge area, continuing at the treatment facility and extending through the …
May 13, 2018· EPA Chemicals under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) collection contains information on chemicals and their regulation under TSCA, on ways to prevent and reduce pollution, and on safer chemicals, products and practices.
SRS REST Web Services; SRS Widget; Single Substance Request (CDX Query Function) (REST and SOAP) Substance List Request (CDX Solicit Function) (SOAP)
Get the EnviroFACTS! Retrieve information from multiple sources of Envirofacts’ System Data for your area of interest. Enter a location such as address, zip, city, county, waterbody, park name, etc.
Oct 21, 2017· Watch video· An Industry Insider Helps Call the Shots A scientist who worked for the chemical industry now shapes policy on hazardous chemicals. Within the E.P.A., there is fear that public health is at risk.
Toxicity criteria on chemicals evaluated by OEHHA. OEHHA chemical database meta data Export database as .CSV file If you are having trouble with the download and would like a copy of the database just drop me (Laurie.M[email protected]) a note and I will provide you a csv file.
Later that day, Nancy Beck, deputy assistant administrator for EPA's Office of Chemical Safety and Pollution Prevention, suggested elevating the study to OMB's Office of Information and Regulatory Affairs to coordinate an interagency review.
The EPA is transitioning to the Superfund Enterprise Management System, or SEMS. SEMS includes the same data fields and content as CERCLIS. As SEMS is made operational, nightly data refresh routines will be reestablished.
NOTE: For all listings above which contain the word "compounds" and for glycol ethers, the following applies: Unless otherwise specified, these listings are defined as including any unique chemical substance that contains the named chemical (i.e., antimony, arsenic, etc.) as part of that chemical's infrastructure.
Search the database using any combination of the following criteria: Chemical Name or CAS number, Facility Site Name or Registry ID, or geography. The facility name provided is the facility as identified in a TSCA submission.
The fee structure rule is the last of four framework rules Congress told the EPA to create in order to implement the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Act, which updated the 1976 ...
The EPA separately proposed in May to repeal many of the major provisions of the chemical plant rule. The public comment period for that proposal ended in July, but the EPA has not yet made the ...
EPA is using a multi-pronged strategy to ensure the safety of chemicals in commerce, recognizing that the current chemicals management law, the Toxic Substances Control …
EPA is now required to systematically prioritize and evaluate chemicals on a specific and enforceable schedule. Within a few years, EPA’s chemicals program will have to assess at least 20 chemicals at a time, beginning another chemical review as soon as one is completed.
Oct 25, 2017· Rep. Frank Pallone of New York, ranking Democrat on the House Energy and Commerce Committee, said the EPA was deferring to the chemical industry's wishes at …
energy & environment. Sources: EPA blocks warnings on cancer-causing chemical. Burying the formaldehyde study is part of an effort by Pruitt and aides to undermine EPA's research program, current ...
The EPA says the chemical can cause health problems and even cancer if it people are exposed to it in soil or water. This type of chemical has attracted more attention after a Politico report that ...
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Find Community Recycling Centres and Household Chemical CleanOut events. Find your nearest Community Recycling Centre or the next Household Chemical CleanOut event, where you can drop off household problem waste for free.
It is the third loss for EPA deregulatory actions in just over a week, following another court’s ruling last week that the agency was wrong when it declined to ban the toxic pesticide ...
EPA scientists, including career staffers, were already talking with the HHS researchers about the differences in their two approaches to evaluating the chemicals when officials at the White House ...
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) will delay implementation of an Obama-era chemical safety rule for nearly two years while it reassesses the necessity of the regulation. The EPA …
Spurred by the chemical industry, President Donald Trump’s administration is retreating from a congressionally mandated review of some of the most dangerous chemicals in public use: millions of tons of asbestos, flame retardants and other toxins in homes, offices and …
A federal appeals court has ordered the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to start enforcing a chemical plant safety rule that the Trump administration tried to delay.
EPA is using a multi-pronged strategy to ensure the safety of chemicals in commerce, recognizing that the current chemicals management law, the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) of 1976, needs to be strengthened.
Jun 20, 2018· EPA Administrator Scott Pruitt said during a recent EPA summit that the agency will look at whether the chemicals need to be subject to federal rules. Minimum risk levels are estimates of the amount of a chemical that a person can eat, drink or breath each day without a detectable risk to health, the ATSDR said.
Oct 01, 2018· The Chemical Reactivity Worksheet (CRW) is a software program you can use to find out about the chemical reactivity of thousands of common hazardous chemicals. Learn more about the CRW and download the program.
10/01 - Cloverdale Foods Company resolves Clean Air Act chemical risk management violations at Mandan, ... Use EPA's Enforcement and Compliance History Online website to search for facilities in your community to assess their …
It is the third loss for EPA deregulatory actions in just over a week, following another court’s ruling last week that the agency was wrong when it …
Jul 08, 2018· Pruitt last year appointed White to the EPA’s Science Advisory Board even as she remains a senior director at the American Chemistry Council. Nancy Beck, who used to be on the industry council, is now a top deputy shaping the EPA’s policies on hazardous chemicals.
WASHINGTON - Today, EPA is announcing the first ten chemicals it will evaluate for potential risks to human health and the environment under TSCA reform. “Under the new law, we now have the power to require safety reviews of all chemicals in the marketplace.” said Jim Jones, assistant administrator of the of Office of Chemical …
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This area contains information on EPA's Chemical Speciation program. The Speciation data are housed in the EPA Air Quality System (AQS) data base. The AQS is designed for State, Tribal, and Local agencies, EPA Regional Offices, consultants and other users of environmental data.
The EPA is slow-walking a proposed ban on a paint-stripping chemical that continues to kill people.
Users may search on all approved terms and acronyms stored in Terminology Services. Users may: Enter a term to search for and select a search mode (Contains is the default). Select a Search by Type (Terms and Acronyms is the default). Browse by a numerical range or alphabetical letter.
ChemView is part of EPA's commitment to strengthen its chemicals management programs by improving access to and the usefulness of chemical information. The goal is for people to easily get information they need to make safe chemical choices.