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Fed to Assist with Environmental Exports

Enviro.BLR.Com Editorial Staff editorial@blr.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:15:11 EST

(5/16) As part of President Obama?s 2010 National Export Initiative, EPA and the Department of Commerce announced that a new web-based tool will soon be made available to assist U.S. environmental companies in promoting American environmental technology, products, and services in the global marketplace.

States Can End Stage II Gas Vapor Recovery

Enviro.BLR.Com Editorial Staff editorial@blr.com — Wed, 16 May 2012 20:15:11 EST

(5/16) One top item in EPA?s August 2011 Final Plan for Periodic Retrospective Reviews was elimination of the Clean Air Act?s Stage II vapor recovery requirements for higher throughput gasoline dispensing facilities (GDF). The Agency has now followed through with a final rule that allows states in current or former ozone nonattainment areas to seek EPA approval of state implementation plan (SIP) revisions that remove the Stage II requirements.

Alternatives to Toxic Surfactant

Enviro.BLR.Com Editorial Staff editorial@blr.com — Fri, 11 May 2012 20:15:11 EST

(5/11) As part of its Design for the Environment (DfE) program, EPA has issued a re port assessing eight environmentally preferable alternatives to nonylphenol ethoxylates (NPE), a class of popular surfactants that at low concentrations are lethal to fish and other aquatic organisms.