Press Release

January 29, 2010

• Waste & Recycling
  Results of Public Comments Regarding "Draft Report on the Progress of the Automobile Recycling System"

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January 26, 2010

• Nature & Parks
  The partial amendment of the standard for breeding and raising Banded Mongoose (Mungos mungo) which is designated as Invasive Alien Species (IAS) under the Invasive Alien Species Act and its enforcement regulation
• Health & Chemicals
  Result of the Medical Data Examination for Acknowledgment of the Designated Diseases under the Act on Asbestos Health Damage Relief

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January 25, 2010

• Waste & Recycling
  Workshop 2010 of the Asian Network for Prevention of Illegal Transboundary Movement of Hazardous Wastes

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January 22, 2010

• Air & Transportation
  Status of the Photochemical Oxidant Warnings and Reported Damages in 2009

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January 21, 2010

• Air & Transportation
  The MOE invites target verification technology submissions for the ETV Project on Heat-Island Mitigation Technologies to reduce anthropogenic waste heat from offices and housings - IT Equipment for Green Technology in FY 2009.

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January 19, 2010

• Water & Soil
  Public Comments Invited regarding the Draft of the Outline of the Amount of Fee relating to "The Draft Ordinance of the MOE on the Amended Ordinance about the Designated Investigation Institution and the Designated Support Corporation based on the SCCA"
• Nature & Parks
  First meeting of the "National Committee for IYB" to be held

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January 18, 2010

• Nature & Parks
  Submitting the nomination of Ogasawara Islands for an inscription on the World Heritage List
• Water & Soil
  Announcement of the "Seminar on Whole Effluent Toxicity (WET) Program under National Pollutant Discharge Elimination System (NPDES) in USA"
• Nature & Parks
  "Global Workshop on the Satoyama Initiative" to be held
• Nature & Parks
  Opening of the Secretariat for the 10th meeting of the Conference of the Parties to the Convention on Biological Diversity

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January 12, 2010

• Waste & Recycling
  The State of the Discharge and Treatment of Industrial Waste in FY 2007

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January 08, 2010

• Nature & Parks
  "Symposium on Monitoring Sites 1000 project" to be held on January 30, 2010

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January 07, 2010

• Nature & Parks
  Senior Vice-Minister of the Environment, Issei Tajima, to attend the official launching of 2010 The International Year of Biodiversity

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