http://www.chemweek.com Chemical Week en-us 2008 Sat, 22 Nov 2008 12:44:44 EST Cefic is today celebrating the 10th anniversary of the long range research initiative (LRI)-a program designed to provide answers to gaps in fundamental scientific data relating to chemicals and... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/15467.html Thu, 20 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Process safety issues, the deepening global economic slowdown and the emergence of a stringent European Union (EU) emissions trading scheme (ETS) are among the key threats to the success of the... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/15342.html Fri, 14 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST U.K.’s regulatory body for the chemicals industry, the Environment Agency (Bristol, U.K.), has put out a warning to chemical firms to beware of an individual who has been posing as an... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/15278.html Mon, 10 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST SusChem, a joint initiative between Cefic and European Biotechnology Industry Association (EuropaBio; Brussels) and supported by the European Commission, has introduced a web portal promoting... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/15153.html Tue, 4 Nov 2008 0:00:00 EST Cefic and the European Chemical Transport Association (ECTA; Brussels) say they have signed an agreement to launch a Responsible Care initiative in the European chemical land transport sector... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/14936.html Thu, 23 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT Solvay says it has set 25 new environmental targets as part of a long term program to be more sustainable. The new targets include a 20% reduction in emissions of greenhouse gases (GHG) to the... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/14762.html Wed, 15 Oct 2008 0:00:00 EDT About 300 firefighters from France and the U.K. this morning extinguished a chemical truck fire that had been burning for 16 hours deep inside the 31-mile Channel Tunnel. The undersea tunnel... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/14153.html Fri, 12 Sep 2008 0:00:00 EDT An explosion occurred at a Bayer CropScience plant at Institute, WV last night, killing one Bayer employee, Bayer says. Another employee has been transported from a local hospital to a regional... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/13941.html Fri, 29 Aug 2008 0:00:00 EDT The Responsible Care program, born in Canada in 1987, was first implemented in the U.S. in 1988 at a time when public perception of the chemical industry stood at an all-time low, according to... http://www.chemweek.com/people_and_business/responsible_care/12977.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/responsible_care/12928.html Fri, 11 Jul 2008 0:00:00 EDT