Adopted by the European Union in 2006, the REACH regulation (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) governs the manufacture and use of chemical substances in Europe.

The Council has today adopted a regulation on the classification, labelling and packaging of chemical substances (CLP). This is the last step in the decision-making procedure. The CLP regulation ...

The Council today formally adopted the legislative package on ‘one substance, one assessment’ (OSOA). The new rules streamline the EU’s approach to the assessment of chemicals and shorten the gap ...

The Trump administration has appointed two industry insiders to oversee chemical regulations, amid a broader Republican push to speed up an approval process they say has held up innovation and ...

This article originally appeared on ProPublica. For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals.

A single warehouse catching fire, or a storage tank collapsing and ejecting its deadly contents, could spell doom for the environment. At a time like this, a great deal of devastation could happen in ...