The mission of the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under US president Joe Biden for the past 18 months has been to restore some of the Obama era anti-pollution...
21.12.2017
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) under its new administrator Scott Pruitt has made another surprise announcement overturning a consensus found before he took office. In...
19.12.2017
- BASF has declared force majeure on deliveries from its 400,000 t/y production for polyurethane feedstock MDI at Chongqing, near Shanghai, China, and has had to stop production...
11.09.2017
- Seven rescue workers in Texas are suing Arkema for $1 million, alleging the French chemical producer was unprepared for the flooding that engulfed its organic peroxides plant at...
13.07.2017
- Two NGOs have begun a process to file suit against seven chemical companies in the US, including an affiliate of Dow Chemical, for allegedly failing to report imports of the...
23.05.2017
- At its plenary session last week, the European Parliament formally objected to plans by the EU Commission to authorize imports of products made from genetically modified maize and...
09.02.2017
- In one of its last press releases before being sidelined by the administration of new President Donald Trump, the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) reported a cumulative 56%...
01.06.2016
- Environmental advocacy organization Greenpeace has criticized the new Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) passed by the US House of Representatives as “the weakest of all US...
