Industry News | 2012-06-13 08:49:05.0
On Tuesday, June 5, 2012, leaders of IPC’s Environment, Health and Safety (EHS) Committee met with senior U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) staff to discuss regulatory relief for printed board manufacturing.
Industry News | 2017-09-12 20:06:12.0
IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries® is joining with a broad coalition of industry groups in support of the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA’s) implementation of a new chemical safety law.
Industry News | 2003-05-16 08:13:33.0
Triumph over the Environmental Protection Agency�s (EPA�s) Metal Products and Machinery (MP&M) effluent guidelines
Industry News | 2010-09-08 15:27:15.0
Electronics manufacturers who send byproducts and waste for recycling are included among the targets of a proposed rule from the EPA published on August 13. The rule expands the reporting requirements under the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) rule that requires manufacturers of chemical substances to report on the manufacturing, importation, processing, and use of those chemical substances.
Industry News | 2014-02-04 17:36:26.0
he U.S. Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) reporting requirements for manufacturing byproducts sent for recycling are “burdensome, unnecessary, and actually discourage recycling,” an industry expert told Congress today.
Industry News | 2020-03-26 17:26:34.0
As a result of IPC's advocacy work, the U.S. EPA yesterday announced that it is exploring exemptions to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) "Fees Rule."
Industry News | 2019-06-26 20:10:05.0
The electronics industry supports many of the U.S. EPA’s proposed changes to the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) Chemical Data Reporting (CDR) requirements and will continue to work with the agency to protect human health and the environment while streamlining reporting requirements.
Industry News | 2017-09-18 15:09:26.0
IPC – Association Connecting Electronics Industries® is disappointed by the failure of a federal advisory committee to reach agreement on a plan to encourage recycling of manufacturing byproducts.
Industry News | 2001-11-09 07:41:57.0
IPC testified before a U.S. House of Representatives Committee on Small Business, Subcommittee on Regulatory Reform and Oversight hearing on the impact the Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA's) proposed metal products and machinery (MP&M) effluent limitations will have on the printed wiring board (PWB) industry.
Industry News | 2021-03-04 08:54:01.0
IPC alerted members about the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) final risk management rules to reduce exposure to five persistent, bioaccumulative, and toxic chemicals (PBTs). The alert calls attention to the rules, which went into effect February 5, 2021, and to one of the five PBTs with a history of use in electronics: phenol, isopropylated, phosphate (3:1) (known as PIP (3:1)).