environmental protection department
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EPA issued a notice in the Federal Register of February 1, 2012, concerning a Memorandum of Understanding between the Environmental Protection Agency, Department of Health and Human Services and the Department of Agriculture regarding genetically engineered plants. This document is being issued to clarify and correct the notice announcing the Memorandum of Understanding.
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As this year's legislative session begins, a state advisory council is again urging lawmakers to increase a coal production tax that funds abandoned mine cleanups and a scathing new audit says mismanagement by the Department of Environmental Protection could leave the state responsible for "immense amounts of monies" for reclamation.
Investigators from the Legislative Auditor's office found DEP did not have accurate data on abandoned site cleanup costs, consistently miscalculates necessary reclamation bond amounts, and often does not complete required inspections of abandoned mine sites.
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This notice announces that pesticide-related information submitted to EPA's Office of Pesticide Programs (OPP) pursuant to the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) and the Federal Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act (FFDCA), including information that may have been claimed as Confidential Business Information (CBI) by submitters in accordance with 40 CFR 2.309(c) and 2.308(h)(2) will be shared with the Department of Human Services (HHS) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA). HHS's Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) will perform work for OPP under a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU). The MOU will support and encourage cooperation and communication between USDA, FDA, and EPA in the regulatory oversight over genetic...
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Frederick M. Lowther (Beth L. Webb, Janet M. Robins, on the brief), Dickstein Shapiro Morin & Oshinsky LLP, Washington, D.C.; Anthony M. Fitzgerald, C...
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This notice announces the availability of a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) between the Environmental Protection Agency and the Department of Interior, Bureau of Land Management. The two agencies will work together to support and facilitate reviewing pesticide regulatory activities under the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA) relevant to risk assessments for the active ingredient formulations--aminopyralid, fluroxpyr, and rimsulfuron, proposed by the Bureau of Land Management, as well as to update risk assessment of two other ingredients.
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V&E Shale Insights — Tracking Fracking E-communication, August 23, 2011
On August 22, 2011, the West Virginia Department of Environmental Protectio...
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By Ann DeMatteo Assistant Metro Editor
HAMDEN -- The state Department of Environmental Protection is counting the days until the major remediation of the Newhall neighborhood begins, but the leader of a community group is still trying to block the plans.
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