USDA Releases Final Rule on Hemp Cultivation
The U.S. Department of Agriculture has released its
final rule governing the cultivation of hemp, which will take effect March 22, 2021. The draft rule would have required hemp to be shown to contain less than 0.3% tetrahydrocannibanol (THC) on testing conducted within 15 days of harvest, a proposal that drew criticism from several parties. The final rule reduces some of the requirements, such as allowing 30 days to test and raising the negligence threshold to 1% rather than 0.5%. The rule also allows some flexibility for states to develop testing methods that take into account variables such as regional environmental factors.
Environmental Law Handbook The fourteenth Edition of the Environmental Law Handbook is now available from Government Institutes.
The fourteenth Edition of the Environmental Law Handbook is now available from Government Institutes. This revised handbook continues to keep pace with the changes in environmental laws, while detailing how those laws affect you and your business. This edition was comprised of 16 detailed chapters, a 22-page table of contents and a 25-page index. It was written by 15 environmental attorneys. This handbook was designed to improve your understanding of fundamental environmental acts, such as RCRA, TSCA, FIFRA, Clean Air, Clean Water, Safe Drinking Water and more.
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Twenty-twenty was an unprecedented year of crisis throughout the world with the onset of the COVID-19 pandemic. Stay-at-home orders, quarantines, remote work, and Zoom-school did not slowdown Proposition 65 plaintiffs, however. Throughout the course of the year, citizen plaintiff groups sent over 3,500 Notices of Violation (“Notices”) to companies doing business in California up and down the supply chain from manufacturers, distributors, and retailers, to everyone else in between alleging that products sold in California required the all too familiar “Proposition 65 warning label” because of the alleged presence of chemicals in the products.
HeadlineJan 28, 2021
In Newark, New Jersey, city and state officials reached a settlement over the city’s water crisis. Newark residents were regularly exposed to illegally high levels of lead in the city’s water supply, leading the Natural Resources Defense Council and the Newark Education Workers Caucus to sue in 2018 for violations of the federal Safe Drinking Water Act.
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6 Hormone-Disrupting Chemicals to Avoid Minimize these hormone-disrupting chemicals in your home and food to decrease the risk of breathing problems, chronic disease, excess weight and more.
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Arsenic can find its way into local waterways via natural deposits in the earth or from agricultural and industrial practices.
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PFCs are often used in stain treatments for furniture; forgo these optional treatments to avoid bringing this chemical into your home.
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How much time do you spend thinking about your hormones? For most of us, conversations about hormones are limited to a few topics: teenagers, monthly cycles or menopause. But hormones are crucial for our bodies to operate optimally for both genders and throughout our lives. Unfortunately, many common chemicals are scientifically proven to alter the way our brains produce and work with hormones. Hormone-disrupting che