Keyword: environmental protection

Research & Innovation

Substitution of Biocides in Cooling Water Treatment

13.12.2023 -

The Heidelberg-based start-up Blue Activity replaces 100% of biocides in cooling water treatment with natural, functional microorganisms. The product change increases the...

Chemistry & Life Sciences

Stricter Environmental Regulation in China

03.04.2018 - Since late 2016, the Chinese government has conducted a series of environmental inspections of production companies. Compared to previous actions, these inspections are much...

Markets & Companies

2017 Through the Rear-view Mirror

10.01.2018 - Mergers and acquisitions, new petrochemical projects, the dismantling of US environmental regulations and a tussle over the hazards of pesticides in Europe, along with a protracted...

News

US Congress Pursues More Environment Rollback

07.04.2017 - Alongside already known or implemented moves rolling back decades of US environmental protection legislation and the 31% cut in the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) budget...

Markets & Companies

Environment Rollback Roils America

31.03.2017 - With the shock waves from 2016’s most unanticipated events – Brexit and the election of Donald Trump as US president – still reverberating, the earth sometimes seems to be tilting...

News

Bill to Gut EPA Introduced in US Congress

07.02.2017 - A first-time Congressman from the state of Florida, Matt Gaetz, has introduced a bill in the House of Representatives that would abolish the US federal Environmental Protection...

News

Senate Hearing Grills Designated EPA Head

19.01.2017 - Just as the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has been battening down the hatches and tying up regulatory loose ends before the administration of President-Elect Donald...

Markets & Companies

Challenges Evolve In China

21.11.2016 - In the last 12 months, developments in China’s chemical industry have been somewhat contradictory, as illustrated by two different company statements made in September. On the one...