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Giving just one day’s notice to the faculty governance chairs at its universities, the Kansas Board of Regents voted this week to allow for emergency employee terminations and suspensions. Tenured professors are no exception.
All nine voting regents approved the temporary policy, which takes effect immediately and expires at the end of 2022.
“In light of the extreme financial pressures placed on the state universities due to the COVID-19 pandemic, decreased program and university enrollment, and state fiscal issues,” any employee including one with tenure “may be suspended, dismissed, or terminated from employment by their respective university,” the policy says.
Thereâs no denying that 2020 was a rough year for many reasons, but in the poker world, one of the biggest was in regards to those we lost. Unfortunately, the year was littered with unexpected deaths, from a Poker Hall of Famer to a Grammy winner, from regional grinders to old school vets.
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PokerNews takes a look back at those we lost in 2020 and dives a bit into their poker accomplishments. For more on each, be sure to click their name to check out PokerNewsâ original write-up.
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TSCA/ FIFRA/ TRI, RCRA/ CERCLA/ CWA/ CAA/ PHMSA/ SDWA, COVID-19, FDA, NANOTECHNOLOGY and more: Recent Regulatory Developments Wednesday, December 16, 2020
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EPA Proposes SNURs For Certain Chemical Substances: On November 16, 2020, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published proposed significant new use rules (SNUR) for certain chemical substances that are the subject of premanufacture notices (PMN). 85 Fed. Reg. 73007. The proposed SNURs would require persons to notify EPA at least 90 days before commencing manufacture (defined by statute to include import) or processing of any of these chemical substances for an activity that is designated as a significant new use. The proposed SNURs would further require that persons not commence manufacture or processing for the significant new use until they have submitted a significant new use notice (SNUN), and EPA has conducted a review of the notice, made an appropriate determination on the notice unde