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Environmental Protection Agency publishes rule on Feb. 7

The US Environmental Protection Agency published a one page rule on Feb. 7, according to the U.S. Government Publishing Office.

The rule is focused on Voluntary Consensus Standards Update; Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products.

More than half of the Agency's employees are engineers, scientists and protection specialists. The Climate Reality Project, a global climate activist organization, accused Agency leadership in the last five years of undermining its main mission.

Notices are required documents detailing rules and regulations being proposed by each federal department. This allows the public to see what issues legislators and federal departments are focusing on.

Any person or organization can comment on the proposed rules. Departments and agencies must then address “significant issues raised in comments and discuss any changes made,” the Federal Register says.

Notices published by the Environmental Protection Agency on Feb. 7

Title
Approval and Promulgation of Air Quality State Implementation Plans; California; Interstate Transport Requirements for Ozone, Fine Particulate Matter, and Sulfur Dioxide
Voluntary Consensus Standards Update; Formaldehyde Emission Standards for Composite Wood Products
Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste
Identification and Listing of Hazardous Waste
Additions to List of Categorical Non-Waste Fuels: Other Treated Railroad Ties
Fomesafen; Pesticide Tolerances
Isoxaben; Pesticide Tolerances
Inventory of U.S. Greenhouse Gas Emissions and Sinks: 1990-2016