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California Governor proposes Prop. 65 litigation reforms

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 10 2013

Working through California's Environmental Protection Agency, Gov. Jerry Brown (D) will collaborate with stakeholders and the legislature to advance

Environmentalists sue EPA to stop use of pesticides allegedly harmful to honey bees

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 22 2013

Beekeepers, environmentalists and advocacy organizations have filed an action for declaratory and injunctive relief against the U.S. Environmental

EC to restrict neonicotinoids in bid to protect bees

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • May 3 2013

Although a recent proposal to restrict the use of three neonicotinoids failed to gain support from the qualified majority of member states on an

Court allows intervention in industry suit against NMFS challenging pesticide opinion

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • August 26 2011

A federal court in Maryland has permitted groups representing environmental and fishing interests to intervene in litigation filed by Dow AgroSciences LLC and two other pesticide manufacturers against the U.S. National Marine Fisheries Service, seeking to overturn the agency’s opinion that three insecticides threaten the Pacific salmon

OEHHA adds methanol to Prop. 65 list for reproductive toxicity

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 16 2012

California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) has added methanol to the list of chemicals known to the state to cause reproductive toxicity (Prop. 65

Industry takes aim at draft UCSF report on nanomaterial regulation in California

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • September 10 2010

Concerned about regulatory coordination issues, the omission of new environmental data and an apparent failure to recognize collaborative stakeholder efforts, nanotech industry interests have reportedly urged CalEPA's Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) and researchers with the University of California at San Francisco (UCSF) to revise a draft April 2010 report on nanomaterial regulation

U.S. food industry highly consolidated, says Food & Water Watch

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • November 2 2012

Food & Water Watch has issued a report detailing how the consolidation of business along the entire food chain has resulted in farm losses, layoffs and higher prices with fewer choices for consumers

OEHHA withdraws amendment proposal on calculating “safe harbor” levels

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • June 11 2010

California EPA’s Office of Environmental Health Hazard Assessment (OEHHA) recently announced that it is withdrawing a regulatory proposal to amend several provisions of the Proposition 65 (Prop. 65) implementing regulations that establish procedures for calculating “safe harbor” levels for listed chemicals

USDA survey generates buzz on honeybee health

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • March 26 2010

The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA’s) Bee Research Laboratory has released the preliminary results of a survey estimating that honeybee colony losses nationwide “were approximately 29 percent from all causes from September 2008 to April 2009,” touching off speculation about the fate of the ubiquitous pollinator

Fungal-viral combination eyed in colony collapse disorder

  • Shook Hardy & Bacon LLP
  • -
  • USA
  • -
  • October 8 2010

A recent study has homed in on a possible explanation for colony collapse disorder (CCD), a mysterious ailment behind the destruction of honeybee hives worldwide