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Dow, Union Pacific update rail safety efforts, Dow advances new rail car designs

3:15 PM MDT | June 18, 2013 | Lindsay Frost

Dow Chemical and Union Pacific noted gains in their joint effort to improve rail safety and security, including safer tank car designs and supply chain improvements that have significantly reduced the volume of hazardous chemicals moving via rail. The effort included eight goals that focused on accident prevention and improvements in response planning, railcar design and shipment tracking....

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Monsanto receives regulatory approval from China for soybeans in Brazil

Monsanto announced it has received regulatory approval from China’s Ministry of Agriculture to launch its Intacta RR2 Pro soybeans in Brazil for the upcoming crop season. Along with Monstanto, multiple South American seed companies are anticipated to...

Accident at CF Industries' nitrogen plant kills one, injures others

CF Industries reports that on 14 June an incident occurred at its 4.5-million ton/year nitrogen complex at Donaldsonville, LA—North America’s largest nitrogen operation—resulting in 1 fatality and 7 injuries. The rupture of a nitrogen...

Apparel and footwear industry group agrees to 2015 phaseout of PFOA chemistry

Zero Discharge of Hazardous Chemicals (ZDHC), a group of leading apparel and footwear brands and retailers, has agreed to timelines for a phaseout of perfluorooctanoic acid, or C8, chemistry by January 2015, the group announced today....

European Environment Agency reports on emissions from power plants

Emissions of nitrogen oxides (NOx), sulfur dioxide (SO2), and dust from electricity-generating large combustion plants (LCPs) in the European Union have fallen since 2004, the European Environmental Agency (EEA; Copenhagen) says in a report, Reducing air...

ECHA's risk assessment committee concludes opinions for harmonized classification and labeling on 14 substances

The European Chemical Agency's (ECHA; Helsinki) committee for risk assessment (RAC) has adopted 13 opinions for harmonized classification and labeling (CLH) and one opinion at the request of the executive director. A summary of the opinions is outlined below...

ECHA committees agree on length of review period

The committees for risk assessment and socio-economic analysis of the European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) have concluded in a joint session that they would recommend to the commission the duration of the review period for the use being applied for...

ACC, Socma urge House to improve TSCA

ACC and Socma reemphasized the need to reform the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) in response to today’s hearing by the US House's energy and commerce subcommittee on environment and the economy regarding the impact of TSCA. The hearing follows...

Carbon emissions: EU needs to look at broader picture, says IEA; Greenpeace calls for tougher targets

The European Union needs to look at the broader picture in terms of carbon emissions, Maria van den Hoeven, executive director at the International Energy Agency (IEA; Paris), says in an interview with Bloomberg. "Climate change has a long-term horizon...

Reports: European Union fails to agree on approval of 3 GM corn varieties

The European Union's standing committee on food chain and animal health has failed to agree on the approval of 3 genetically modified (GM) varieties of corn for use in food and animal feed, various media sources have reported. The European Commission will...

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