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US Environmental Market Sector Remains Positive Despite Federal Budget Cuts

Delegates at the annual Environmental Business International industry summit, 22-3-17 through 24-3-17 in San Diego, were upbeat about the state of the environmental market sector, despite proposed major budget cuts to the Environmental Protection Agency and to funding for climate change research. Among the mostly American attendees, a commonly echoed idea - with less federal oversight, states will begin to create and enforce their own environmental policy, leading to a boom in public-private partnerships.

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Live Blog: EHSSENTIALS 2017 UCLA Kicks Off With Broad Look at Future of US Healthcare Industry

EHSSENTIALS 2017 UCLA, a healthcare EHS symposium hosted by UCLA, kicked off this morning with a keynote talk by Dr. Alexander Li, Deputy Director of Care Transitions and System Integrations at the LA County Department of Health Services. The talk touched upon many issues with the status quo (or lack thereof) of the US healthcare industry today, and looked into a variety of potential solutions.

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convergence is an environmental, health, safety and social management consultancy that specializes in multi-country (international) projects and programs.  We are able to meet our clients’ needs on a global scale while recognizing the important regional differences that our clients face in conducting business.  We are one of the leading international EHS audit consultancies; and our country health and safety legal compliance tools for offices, retail and service sectors, known as CORE, are the foremost resource of its kind.