The Lorraine Regional Council in France has joined forces with Arkema and two local university laboratories to back a research program into bio-based acrylics manufacture. Christian Collette, Arkema's R&D v.p. and Jean-Pierre Masseret, president of the...
Four people have been injured following an explosion at the Stallingborough, U.K. manufacturing plant of titanium dioxide (TiO2) producer Cristal Global (Cristal; Yanbu, Saudi Arabia). A reactor tank ruptured today at 00:30 local time releasing a cloud of...
U.S. Senator Jay Rockefeller (D., West Virginia) has introduced a bill to delay the implementation of U.S. EPA greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation for stationary sources the senator's office announced today. The bill would delay EPA permitting requirements for...
The University of North Texas (UNT; DentonTX) has been awarded grants totaling $120,000 to develop toxicology tests relating to the aquatic environment, for Cefic, the European Chemical Industry Council (Brussels) and the International Life Sciences Institute...
The U.S. EPA will phase-in regulations for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions under the Clean Air Act (CAA) starting with a 75,000 tons/year emissions threshold, according to the agency's head. EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson told a Senate subcommittee...
The Chinese government says it will take action to develop a low-carbon economy and that the low carbon targets will be included in the 12th five-year plan for national economic development (2011-2015). The Chinese government says it will...
The implementation of the European Union (EU)’s more stringent emissions trading scheme (ETS) in 2013 will have little or no impact on carbon leakage-the effect of driving production to another country, according to a new study by U.K. government-funded...
More than 50 projects remain suspended at the site....
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has outlined a timeline for greenhouse gas (GHG) regulation under the Clean Air Act (CAA) whereby no stationary source will be subject to rules until 2011, and the smallest sources will not need to comply until...
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