News & Events

• March 21, 2007
  Washington State Department of Ecology's PBT Chemical Action Plan distinguishes between PBT chemicals and metals.
  
  
  
• March 8, 2007
  EPA releases final framework for Metals Risk Assessment, is now available online. The framework recognizes that metals have "unique characteristics" and the lack of scientific support for using bioaccumulation and bioconcentration factors for ranking of metals.
  
  
  
• December 2006
  The European Union adopts REACH (Registration, Evaluation, and Authorization of Chemicals) legislation. Pre-registration period set to begin June 2007. NAMC sets briefing teleconference for June 15, 2007 and full-day workshop on impacts on the North American metals industry for August 2007.
  
  
  
• November 30, 2006
  NAMC joins 17 other international and regional metals associations in endorsing a 'Declaration by the Metals Industry on Recycling Principles.
  
  
  
• November 30, 2006
  The Declaration, which will be published in the International Journal of Life Cycle Assessment, is now available online.
  
  
  
• November 20, 2006
  NAMC's Comments on Washington State Department of Ecology's Draft Multiyear PBT Chemical Action Plan Schedule
  
  
  
• November 13, 2006
  NAMC Files Comments Supporting Global Harmonization of Classification and Labeling.
  
  
  
• June 27, 2006
  Comments on CEC Report: "Toxic Chemicals and Children's Health in North America"
  
    - Letter to Stephen L. Johnson
  
  
  
• June 16, 2006
  NAMC joins American Chemistry Council, Edison Electric Institute, U.S. Council for International Business, and other associations in supporting Gillmor legislation for TSCA amendments to permit ratification of the POPs treaties and other international agreements.
  
    - Letter to Congress on POPs
    - Letter to Gillmor and Solis
  
  
  
• April 3, 2006
  EPA Administrator Steve Johnson sends letter to EPA's Science Advisory Board recognizing the lack of scientific support for bioaccumulation and bioconcentration factors (BAF/BCF) "for use as generic threshold criteria for the hazard assessment of metals."
  
    - Steve Johnson April 2006 Letter
    - January 2006 SAB Report
    - September 2005 NAMC Comments
  
  
  
• March 15, 2006
  NAMC submits letters in support of funding for the Center for the Study of Metals in the Environment in the 2007 Appropriations Bill
  
    - Letter to Burns
    - Letter to Dicks
    - Letter to Dorgan
    - Letter to Taylor
  
  
  
• March 15, 2006
  NAMC urges passage of legislation implementing the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants, the LRTAP POPs Protocol, and the Rotterdam Convention on Prior Informed Consent
  
    - NAMC Comments
  
  
  
• November 18, 2005
  The Strategic Approach to International Chemicals Management (“SAICM”)
  
    - September 2005 NAMC Comments
    - NAMC Views
  
  
  
• The Convention on Long Range Transboundary Air Pollutants, Heavy Metals Protocol