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Poland to delay tax on shale gas until 2020

7:24 AM MDT | May 24, 2013 | Michael Ravenscroft

Poland plans to delay a proposed tax on shale-gas exploration until 2020, after several foreign energy companies, including ExxonMobil and Marathon, decided to stop exploration there. "The law on hydrocarbon taxes will come into force in 2015, but taxes...

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EU-wide restriction on use of neonicotinoids to be in force from 1 December

The European Commission has adopted a restriction on the use of 3 neonicotinoids that have been associated in recent years with a decline in the number and health of honeybees. The restriction will enter into force 1 December and will be reviewed as soon as...

India outlines API export norms, to comply with new EU regulations

India’s Ministry of Commerce & Industry (New Delhi) says that it is taking action in order to ensure that active pharmaceutical ingredients (APIs) exported from India into the European Union (EU) meet the new EU standards and regulations, which will...

Lautenberg, Vitter announce bipartisan bill for TSCA modernization (UPDATED)

Senators Frank R. Lautenberg (D-NJ) and David Vitter (R-LA) today announced the introduction of the Chemical Safety Improvement Act of 2013—a bipartisan effort to modernize the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) that has the endorsement of both...

ECHA calls for new round of comments on reproductive toxicity and carcinogenicity of etridiazole

The European Chemicals Agency (ECHA; Helsinki) has invited additional comments on proposals for harmonized classification and labeling (CLH) for etridiazole, used as a fungicide to control soil and root fungi in the treatment of substrate-grown crops. The CLH...

Teijin to shut US carbon fiber production unit

Toho Tenax, the carbon fiber unit of Teijin (Tokyo), has announced plans to suspend production of carbon fiber at its Rockwood, TN site by the end of the third quarter....

Monsanto, BASF plan to launch drought-tolerant corn next year

BASF and Monsanto plan to commercially launch their jointly developed drought-tolerant corn in the U.S. market in time for the next growing season, according to Dow Jones reports. The two companies discovered the trait in 2009 after spending about $1.5...

ACC says proposed fracking rules could derail energy development

The ACC echoed other industry groups in suggesting the rules would be redundant....

Air Products begins operating DOE carbon-capture project

Air Products says it has has successfully begun operating its carbon recovery project at Port Arthur, TX, as a part of a Department of Energy’s (DOE) demonstration project that will capture about 1 million tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) annually....

GOP boycotts EPA nom

Republican Senators on the US Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works have boycotted a vote to advance President Obama’s nomination of Gina McCarthy as EPA chief, saying in a statement that the EPA was “stonewalling” their requests...

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