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World’s Largest Succinic Acid Plant Opened In Canada

On August 6, 2015, BioAmber Inc. and Mitsui & Co., Ltd announced the opening of their joint succinic acid plant in Sarnia, Ontario. This joint venture cost approximately $141.5 million to build and has a capacity of 30,000 tons of succinic acid per year, making it the world`s largest succinic acid plant. The plant uses technology to produce succinic acid from s

Aug. 4, 2015

Pesticide Registration Improvement Act

The user fees that industry has both long advocated and long dreaded became a reality for pesticide product registrants as part of the Consolidated Appropriations Bill (P.L. 108-199), enacted Jan. 22. The Conference Committee incorporated the text of the Pesticide Registration Improvement Act of 2003, which was introduced in the Senate on Sept. 25, 2003, by Sens. Thad Cochran (R-Miss.) and Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) with 21 co-sponsors. PRIA is the culmination of considerable negotiation among the Envi

Jan. 1, 2004

EPA`s Proposed Public Participation Process for Reregistration - Almost, But Not Quite There

On March 15, 2000, the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) issued a Federal Register notice outlining a proposed process for public participation for pesticide tolerance reassessment and reregistration and asking for comment. The process had been developed in conjunction with the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and used on a pilot basis since August 1998 for tolerance reassessment and reregistration of organophosphate pesticides (OPs). EPA’s notice solicite

Aug. 6, 2002

Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report Quotes Lynn L. Bergeson On Ruling Against Conditional Approval of Nanosilver Pesticide

On June 1, 2017, Lynn L. Bergeson, Managing Partner of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. (B&C®), was quoted in the Bloomberg BNA Daily Environment Report article “EPA Failed to Justify Nanosilver Pesticide Approval, Court Says.”

Lynn Bergeson, managing partner in the Washington, D.C. office of Bergeson & Campbell, P.C. told Bloomberg BNA the agency will need to issue some sort of stop sale or other order to implement the court`s vacatur.

EPA will then

May. 3, 2017

EPA Issues Stop-Sale Order to PuriCore, Inc.

On July 18, 2016, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced that PuriCore Inc. (PuriCore), paid a $550,000 penalty for the unauthorized distribution of two of its pesticide products, ProduceFresh and FloraFresh, that were used in supermarkets nationwide. Along with the penalty, EPA issued a stop-sale order to PuriCore prohibiting the sale of ProduceFresh. PuriCore’s unauthorized distribution and sale of pesticide products violates the Federal Insecticide, Fung

Jul. 1, 2016