A new memorandum of understanding was signed between the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration and the Occupational Safety and Health Administration. The new agreement will create better communication between the agencies when any employee or worker claims they have been discriminated against or coerced to work in unsafe conditions.

The United States Environmental Protection Agency (or EPA) has added seven new hazardous waste sites to Superfund’s National Priorities List (NPL).

These sites expose materials that can potentially harm people and the environment. Aside from these, the EPA has recommended another five new sites to the list.

Superfund is the government’s initiative tasked to probe and tidy up the country’s most complex and abandoned lethal waste sites in order to protect the health of the people as well as the environment.

The International Civil Aviation Organization’s Dangerous Goods Panel has recently suggested a ban be placed on the use of all lithium metal batteries on passenger airlines.

This comes on the heels of serious concern for Certified Hazmat Air Cargo Carriers and their contents. However, it is believed that air carriers can benefit from a more secure and regulated policy.

The latest amendment on China’s Regulations on Safe Management of Hazardous Chemicals has more specific articles on the storage, production, use, import, sales and transportation of hazardous chemicals with the release of the official Catalogue of Priority Hazardous Chemicals for Environment Management on April 10, 2014.

The directive is considered as the most multifaceted chemical regulation in China which includes more than 100 articles and truckloads of secondary measures national standards for this specific law.