http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Wed, 27 Aug 2008 20:53:33 EDT U.K. government body the Renewable Fuels Agency (RFA; St. Leonards-on-Sea, U.K.) in its first monthly report on the supply of biofuels in the U.K. has identified that between mid-April to... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/13549.html Tue, 12 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT Monsanto disclosed today that it is looking for a buyer for its bovine milk boosting drug Posilac recombinant bovine somatotropin (rBST). Monsanto did not disclose if it was yet in talks with a... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/13486.html Wed, 6 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The European Commission this week has proposed to revise its legislation for protecting the ozone layer. The proposed changes to the legislation are designed to improve the implementation of the... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/13458.html Tue, 5 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT I’d like to see the chemical sector doing more… research and development on nature-based chemistry; the way microbes, fungi, plants and animals have evolved and perfected, over billions of years, super efficient and novel ways of harvesting sunlight up to making substances that appear to avoid antibiotic resistance; in short, the field of biomimicry.... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/13164.html Tue, 22 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Rising gasoline prices and green-conscious consumers have forced the global automotive industry to rethink its power train, setting the stage for rechargeable lithium-ion batteries to emerge as the enabling technology for hybrid electric vehicles (HEV). From the current base of nearly zero, sales of lithium for HEV batteries are expected to exceed $500 million by 2015, analysts say. Rockwood Holdings, Sociedad Quimica y Minera de Chile (SQM), and FMC, the largest lithium producers worldwide, are poised to benefit from this new high-volume application.... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/13115.html Mon, 21 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Anxiety is mounting within the European chemical industry over the European Commission’s plans to revise the European Union’s (EU) Emissions Trading System (ETS). The revisions... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/12968.html Mon, 14 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT The chemical industry should incorporate cradle-to-cradle (C2C) recycling of chemicals, and toxic chemicals should be phased out, according to Michael Braungart, a leading environmental chemist... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/12928.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT European polyvinyl chloride (PVC) recycling trust The Vinyl Foundation, says it has raised more than €0.5 million ($0.8 million) this year from plastics converters to finance Vinyl 2010, a... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/12917.html Thu, 10 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Michael, J. Prather, professor of the Earth System Science Department at the University of California (Irvine, CA) and Juno Hsu, a research colleague from the same university department, have... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/12851.html Wed, 9 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT Leaders of the G8 countries meeting in Toyako, Japan today have pledged to halve CO2 emissions by 2050. The agreement, which includes the U.S., would appear to be a step toward a global deal to... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/green_issues/12879.html Tue, 8 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT