Legislation initiatives

The second possibility is the European waste legislation, which includes the Restriction of Hazardous Substances Directive (RoHS). The RoHS Directive is closely linked with the Waste Electrical and Electronic Equipment Directive (WEEE) which sets collection, recycling, and recovery targets for electrical goods and is part of a legislative initiative to solve the problem of toxic e-waste. 

Japan, South Korea and China, today the countries with the most extensive new ship building industry, have not yet implemented registration schemes for AF products but legislative initiatives are on the way and the coming into force of legislation analogous with e.g. the European BPD is envisaged within near future. 

On the federal level, a number of legislative initiatives are up for discussion in the US Congress, some being more inspired by REACH than others.40 In May 2008, two identical bills called the Kids-Safe Chemicals Act were sent to the Senate and to the... 

Possible grant funding and/or legislative initiatives to increase the supply of burn surgeons and nurses through educational loan forgiveness and fellowship support... 

While it is fairly hard to generalize, it is safe to say that most mainstream investors in the United States have not focused on these issues as being significant drivers of value overall. While there are a few examples to the contrary around specific legislative initiatives, they tend to confirm the general impression. 

Lobbying tracking legislative initiatives to alert membership of important issues writing suggested legislation interaction with representatives of government bodies. 

There are also policy and legislative initiatives which must be undertaken to ensure the conservation of Africa s biodiversity. Some of these only require the strengthening of existing legislations and policy instruments. For example, in Ghana there is the Concessions Ordinance of 1939, which empowers the Chief Conservator of Forests to ensure the protection, conservation, management, improvement, development and exploitation of all forest resource in concessions. These provisions for forests are... 

Legislative initiatives have been put forth by several states to provide necessary regulatory authority for establishing standards for substances that could enter groundwater. This is contrasted with the federal situation which is relying upon existing water quality statutes for standard setting. 

Florida, on the other hand, maintains a zero degradation philosophy which says, in effect, that if no standard is set, then the mere detection of a substance is a violation of the water quality standards (18). Unlike the two formerly mentioned states, legislative initiatives in Florida did not clearly define a standard setting methodology or specifically mandate rule promulgation in this area. 

In order to test the Green Screen, three flame retardants that currently meet performance criteria for use in the external plastic housing of televisions (TVs) were evaluated. With the European Union restricting decabromodi-phenyl ether (decaBDE) in electronics and with similar legislative initiatives under consideration at the state level in the United States, a recurring question emerges are the alternative flame retardants safer than decaBDE from the perspective of human and environmental health and safety Flame retardant use in TVs is of particular interest... 

As time passed, the tenor of legislative initiatives became focused more on recycling. An interest in bans and taxes gave way to efforts to push for markets for recycled materials, including plastics. The pace of legislative activity decreased, but the issues did not go away. 

There have been three legislative initiatives in the United States since the Depression, each immediately following a major disaster the 1941 Mines Inspection Act followed an explosion in West Virginia which killed 91 miners the 1952 Federal Coal Mine Act followed an Illinois explosion which claimed 119 lives and the 1969 Coal Mine Safety and Health Act followed the Farmington, West Virginia explosion in which 78 died (Braithwaite 1985, p. 78). Fatality rates declined sharply after the passage of the 1941 Act. They remained on a plateau after the passage of the 1952 Act but... 

Legislative initiatives with respect to pollution and greenhouse gases... 

HISTORICAL HIGHLIGHTS OF GENERAL AND SPECIFIC U.S. LEGISLATIVE INITIATIVES FOR LEAD REGULATION... 

Congressional Interactions with Various Stakeholders Affected by Legislative Initiatives for Lead... 

Percival (2006) noted that U.S. legislative initiatives on lead in diverse human exposure media sources in the 1970s and 1980s were enacted within a largely precautionary framework. An element of this precautionary, proactive stance was its pursuit in the face of scientific uncertainty. Notable, and... 

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