Japanese Environment Agency

Japanese Environment Agency IBM Japan, Sony, Tokyo Gas (1996/1997)... 

The Japanese Environment Agency has issued draft guidelines for evaluating environmental cost and publicly disclosing environmental accounting information. The guidelines have identified six categories of environmental cost ... 

In order to observe the decline of triphenyltin level in fish, The Environment Agency of the Japanese government collected fishes from 35 sites all over the Japanese coasts and carried out a survey of the triphenyltin concentration66. Experimental results are illustrated in Figure 6. 

Since all heavy metals are fixed in ash and are hardly soluble in water, the ash can be landfilled without any additional treatment. But it is preferable to solidify the ash for easy handling and minimizing the amount of soluble heavy metal in case of commercial plants. Solubility test was made for ash by the routine method stipulated by the Japanese Environment Protection Agency. The result is shown in Table VIII. 

To analyze in accordance with procedures provided in the Japanese Industrial Standard or those established by the Environment Agency and MHW of Japan, in order to evaluate outgoing streams on the basis of Japanese national environmental standards and emission and effluent standards,... 

EA (1980) Chemicals in the environment in 1980, office of health studies, environmental health department, environment agency (in Japanese)... 

For validation of applicability of our models to the Japanese environment, we calculated environmental concentrations of a number of chemicals, and compared the calculated concentrations with monitoring data conducted by the Environment Agency of Japan [3,5,9]. 

Environment Agency, Japan, Comparison of Global Environmental Fate Models-Applicability of Global Models to Japanese Environment, prepared to OECD Phase 1 SIDS Initial Assessment Meeting, 1993. 

NISA was therefore seen as a key factor in the failure to prevent the accident. In August 2011 it was announced that the Japanese government intended to bring NISA under the Environment Agency, which was seen as relatively untainted by close ties with the nuclear industry and therefore better able to regulate in a hands-off manner. 

The origin of Aeolian dust from Chinese desert to Japanese islands was studied with ESR of dust, mostly fine grains of quartz.132 Suspended particulate matter (SPM) collected by environmental protection agency was measured with ESR.133 Dust soot of automobiles was also measured to check the motor combustion rate. Adsorption of NO, Mn2+ and Gd3 on clay minerals, bentonite and se-piolite134 has been studied using paramagnetic ions as tracers for radioactive elements. And studies have been carried out on how divalent and trivalent cations diffuse and blocked by surrounding clay minerals, in the context of their leak from nuclear waste repository to the environment.135... 

Risk assessment activities of IPCS are supported financially by the Department of Health and Department for Environment, Food Rural Affairs, United Kingdom Environmental Protection Agency, Food and Drug Administration, and National Institute of Environmental Health Sciences, USA European Commission German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety Health Canada Japanese Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare and Swiss Agency for Environment, Forests and Landscape. 

Urban pollution has been shown by Japanese, " Australian, and U.S. researchers to be primarily due to car exhaust emissions. The U.S. Environment Protection Agency (EPA) reports transportation in the USA to be responsible for - 42% of total emissions, the car being the largest single polluter. Correspondingly, cars in the... 

Japan Environmental Agency (2002) Survey of Endocrine Disrupting Chemicals in the Environment (FY2001). Reports of Ministry of the Environment, Japan, 229 pp. (in Japanese). 

Agency in the US , the Environmental Protection Agency s (EPA) regulations in the US are described. The United States is a very advanced country and a major player in the world. Since the US stance in regards to industry and the environment differs from that of the EU, both are compared to provide an understanding of the political aspects for environmental regulations. Chapter Japanese Environmental Regulations shows how Japan, the other big player, has tackled with environmental problems to establish laws. 

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