Pollution-free pesticide NZ-1012 project launched in Yangling. (News Desk).
The pollution-free pesticide NZ-1012 project jointly developed by the Pollution-Free Pesticide Research and Service Center of Northwest University of Agricultural and Forestry Technology and NZYM of the United States, has completed the bench test in NZYM and applied for patent in the United States. According to the framework agreement...

Environmental justice in Oregon: it's the law.
I. INTRODUCTION II. THE ROLE OF STATES IN ENVIRONMENTAL JUSTICE POLICY A. Federalism and Evolving Environmental Justice Policy B. Agency Institutional Norms Surrounding Race C. The Urban Context of Environmental Justice and Sustainability D. Why States Matter E. The New Jersey Experience III. OREGON AND ENVIRONMENTALISM A. Oregon's Native...

First discharge standard for China's pesticide industry.
The "Effluent Standards for Pollutants from Heterocyclic Pesticide Industry" was announced on April 2nd, 2008 jointly by the Ministry of Environmental Protection (MOEP) and the General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China, effective July 1st, 2008. This standard is the first one on water-based pollutants discharge...

Geography in the United Kingdom: 1992-1996.
'Turbulent years' and 'major upheaval' have been phrases used to characterize both the periods 1984-88 and 1988-92 by previous authors of these quadrennial reviews of Geography in the UK (Bennett and Thornes, 1988; Gardner and Hay, 1992). Yet, when set against the enormous shifts and 'frenzied activity' (Johnston, 1995c) of...

The Diversity of Life.
The world has been awash in apocalyptic prophecies for the past quarter-century. Now comes the latest prediction of doom - a man-made "extinction spasm" in which the earth in the next few decades could lose forever as much as a quarter of its plant and animal species. That alarming...

The pastoral after environmentalism: nature and culture in Stephen Albert's Symphony: RiverRun.
The year 1972 was a landmark in the history of the environmental movement: the Environmental Protection Agency, founded two years earlier by Richard Nixon, banned the toxic pesticide DDT and authored the Federal Water Pollution Control Act, later amended to the Clean Water Act of 1977. While criticism of...

EPA Cites Ashta Chemicals for Air Pollution and Pesticide Violations.
CHICAGO, July 18 /PRNewswire/ -- U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Region 5 has filed an administrative complaint against Ashta Chemicals Inc. for alleged violations of federal and federally enforceable state clean-air regulations and federal pesticide regulations at the company's chemical plant, 3509 Middle Rd., Ashtabula, Ohio. EPA proposed...

Operating rate of Abamectin units less than 50%. (Market Report).
The total capacity of abamectin producers in China is 247.3 t/a (100%) and the output is estimated to be 118.83 tons in 2002. The export amount of abamectin was 49.3 tons and the consumption in the domestic market was 51.62 tons in 2001. The consumption is expected to be...

2007 review and 2008 projection of petrochemical and chemical industry.
By CPCIA (China Petroleum and Chemical Industry Association) 1 Economic functioning of petroleum and chemical industry in 2007 The industrial output value (current price) accomplished by the petroleum and chemical industry of China in 2007 was RMB5.3 trillion, an increase of 22.5% over the previous...

Policies for pesticides get stricter.
The Ministry of Finance and the State Taxation Administration issued a notice on July 30th to eliminate the export rebates for more than 30 kinds of pesticides, effective August 1st, 2008. (CCR2008 No. 23) Two background factors were publicly considered to result in the notice. A: ...