Tag: COC

EPA Zeros in on Illegal Vehicle Imports

By Clare Condon Apr 23, 2014 Enforcement and Inspection

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

Big Fines Levied for Illegal Vehicle Imports In early March, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) announced a settlement with a Minnesota-based power sports company and its two sister companies based in China for violations of CAA requirements. According to the EPA, between 2007 and 2013 the companies imported more than 12,000 highway motorcycles and recreational […]

CA’s Safe Chem Proposal Rattles Industry

By Clare Condon Dec 19, 2012 Chemicals

Updated: Aug 22, 2017

Authorized by California’s 2008 Green Chemistry statute (Assembly Bill 1879), a final SCPR as it was proposed would constitute the most far-reaching regulation yet of chemicals of concern (COC) by requiring that manufacturers conduct complex analyses of these substances. Such analyses would be intended to reduce the concentration of the COC in a product and/or […]