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PUBLISHER'S LETTER<br />
Keeping an Ear to the Ground<br />
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he U.S. Environmental Protection<br />
Agency has opened a window of<br />
opportunity through Feb. 22 for<br />
industry to weigh in on the agency's<br />
ongoing assessment of medium- and<br />
long-chain chlorinated paraffins. EPA has<br />
said that it intends to ban the production<br />
and importation of these chemicals —<br />
which are important additives for metal-<br />
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