http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2010 Fri, 19 Mar 2010 23:45:20 EDT 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/25491.html Fri, 19 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT The Chlorine Institute (Arlington, VA) asked the Federal Railroad Administration (FRA) to reconsider the Positive Train Control (PTC) rule, a new regulation that requires railroads to implement... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/25456.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Brazilian trade officials say they are considering suspending patent and intellectual property rights on goods including agricultural chemicals, biotechnology products, and pharmaceuticals. The... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/25458.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT A U.S. appeals court judge has ruled that growers may plant Monsanto’s genetically modified (GM) sugar beets during this year’s season, rejecting a request by environmentalists who... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/25466.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT ChemTrust (London), a non-government organization, is pressing regulators to adopt measures that recognize the synergistic adverse effects of synthetic chemicals on human health and the... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/safety/25452.html Wed, 17 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT A consortium of 28 companies and research institutes has begun a four-year project to develop an efficient biorefinery system for converting biomass into final chemical products. Named... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/alternativefuels/25419.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT The first round of formal United Nations (U.N.) climate change negotiations will take place in April in Bonn, Germany surrounded by pessimism. Connie Hedegaard, European Commissioner for climate... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/climatechange/25420.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT 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... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/legal/25427.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT Sixteen cities from six Midwestern states have filed a lawsuit in the Southern District of Illinois seeking compensation from Syngenta for the costs of filtering the company’s embattled herbicide atrazine from drinking water. The commonly used chemical has been under increased scrutiny in the past year despite its re-registration in 2006. The EPA announced in October of 2009 that it would review atrazine’s safety profile after reports of higher-than-legal amounts of the chemical were found in Midwestern water systems. Other studies have linked the herbicide to abnormal sexual development in frogs.... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/pesticides/25416.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT The U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) and the U.S. Department of Agriculture last week began the first in a series of workshops exploring potential antitrust violations in the U.S. agriculture... http://www.chemweek.com/envirotech/regulatory/pesticides/25417.html Tue, 16 Mar 2010 0:00:00 EDT