Industry Advisory Panel Urges Administration To Join Basel Treaty

A Commerce Department advisory panel is urging the Biden administration to support ratification of the Basel Convention as a way to bolster scrutiny of trade in plastics, electronics and other wastes governed by the agreement, which the United States has signed but has not been ratified by the Senate. The Environmental Technologies Trade Advisory Committee -- a panel of industry officials that advises the Commerce Department on “the development and administration of programs to expand U.S. exports of environmental technologies,...