Conference Highlights include: * More than 8 CLE credits including 1.5 ethics * Networking sessions and small group discussions * Tracks that guide you through the issues and information you should be familiar with as you take on this new role * Presenters include in-house counsel (or corporate counsel) representing companies and legal departments including Comcast Corp., Exelon, Fifth Third Bank, Verizon Wireless, Harrah’s Entertainment , Prudential Financial, Inc.,… [read post]

  In addition 10 more commitments for submission under the program have been received: BASF Corporation, Bayer Material Science, Dow Chemical, Evonik/Degussa, General Electric, Nanocyl North America, Nanophase Technologies Corporation, PPG Industries, Sasol North America, and Strem Chemicals.The concern, of course, if that if EPA does not receive enough voluntary information for it to use in educating itself on the risks posed by nanomaterials, it will make such… [read post]

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation (NYSDEC) have sent a series of enforcement actions over the past two months to the Tonawanda Coke Corporation (TCC) that order the company to maintain and operate its coke manufacturing facility in a manner that no longer violates environmental laws. [read post]