ENVIRONMENT

ACC in Talks On Revised Climate Bill

March 19, 2010 | Vincent Valk

ACC president Cal Dooley participated in a session earlier this week with Senators John Kerry (D., Massachussets), Lindsey Graham (R., South Carolina), and Joe Lieberman (I., Connecticut), along with leaders of other industry groups, to discuss a revised...

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Chemical Emissions: PPG

Chemical Emissions is CW's new periodical series looking at the latest emissions reports from leading chemical companies. We'll be reporting on the latest numbers and following-up with questions on the data. The series will build on itself, as we continually provide greater context and update past reports....

Supreme Court Will Not Hear ACC’s Appeal of Clean Air Act Ruling

The U.S. Supreme Court says it will not consider an appeal by ACC that sought a review of an appeals court’s decision disallowing an exemption from certain emissions limits during “startup, shutdown or malfunction” (SSM)...

Arkema Reinforces Research into Bio-Based Acrylics

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 Injured in Explosion at Cristal Global's U.K. TiO2 Plant

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...

Senator Introduces Bill to Delay EPA GHG Action

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...

Cefic Selects U.S. University to Develop HazChem Tests

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...

EPA Head Outlines GHG Emissions Thresholds

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...

China to Develop Low-Carbon Economy

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...

EU ETS Will Not Cause Carbon Leakage, Study Finds

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...

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