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Call in Support for Climate Change Legislation on June 22

On June 23, over 900 volunteers from Citizens’ Climate Lobby will be in Washington, DC lobbying their members of Congress to support legislation to address global warming. These volunteers are traveling from all across the US on their own dime to make the case for what they see as the best first step to a stable climate and a livable world, a revenue-neutral carbon tax (a tax placed on CO2 emissions that would return the revenue to American households as a monthly rebate check). This effort will leave a bigger mark with your help. Citizens’ Climate Lobby is asking people
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RE: MINNESOTA RECORDS FIRST DEATH FROM TICK-BORNE (deer tick) POWASSAN VIRUS

Release Date: 11/02/2011 Contact Information: Dale Kemery (News Media Only) kemery.dale@epa.gov 202-564-7839 202-564-4355 WASHINGTON – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) today took another step in the process to cancel 20 mouse and rat control products that do not adequately protect people, particularly young people, from exposure to toxic chemicals. EPA has determined that safer rodent control products are now widely available, effective, and affordable. The products EPA plans to remove from the consumer market are those that contain the most toxic and persistent active ingredients, products sold as loose bait and pellets and any remaining products without protective bait
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OSHA to adopt GHS in August

From the Environmental Resource Center: OSHA announced that by August of this year, US employers must begin to adopt the globally harmonized system (GHS) for the classification and labeling of hazardous chemicals.  This means that virtually every product label, MSDS (soon to be called â??safety data sheetâ?), and written hazard communication plan must be revised to meet the new standard.  Worker training must be updated so that workers can recognize and understand the symbols and pictograms on the new labels as well as the new hazard statements and precautions on MSDSs.
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