Chemicals
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: G8 Summit, Wastewater Treatment, Electricity Capacity Prices
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes eight items.
President Obama and G8 Summit world leaders ...
Sustainable Architectural Coatings ‘Will Grow Market Share’
Consumer awareness, government regulations and the widespread acceptance of energy efficiency standards for buildings are driving the development of ...
Investor Coalition Pushes Shale Gas Industry to Clean Up Fracking
A coalition of 55 investment firms and institutional investors is urging the shale gas industry to adopt best practices to clean up hydraulic fracturing, a ...
Innovation a Part of BASF’s DNA
A key element of future-proof brands is innovation.
As someone with a particular interest in building tough, resilient brands of the future, ...
90% of Cleaning Products at Whole Foods Meet Ingredient Disclosure Rule
More than 90 percent of the household cleaning products sales at Whole Foods Market pass muster under the company's ...
Coke China Plant Shuttered ‘over Chlorine Contamination’
Coca-Cola was reportedly forced by regulators to temporarily stop production at a bottling plant in north China, after inspectors allegedly ...
Chemical Manufacturers Cut Toxic Releases 32%
Specialty chemical manufacturers are decreasing the amount of toxic chemicals they release to the environment, according to the Society of Chemical Manufacturers and Affiliates.
As a ...
Cintas Eco-Apparel Uses 15 Million Plastic Bottles
Cintas Corporation says it has helped eliminate more than 15 million plastic bottles from the waste stream by reuing plastic waste in its ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Canada Vehicle Emissions, Natural Gas, TSCA, Petroleum Reserve
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
Canada issued greenhouse gas emissions rules that ...
Leakage Rates ‘Threaten Green Benefits of Natural Gas’
Failure to reduce methane leaks has the potential to eliminate much, if not all, of the greenhouse gas advantage of natural gas over coal, according ...
Beyond Sustainable Cleaning
By now, just about everyone has heard of "green" cleaning and knows that environmentally preferable cleaning chemicals can help reduce cleaning's impact on ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Calif. Chemicals, Refinery Agreement, Loan Program Revived
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 10 items.
The California Department of Toxic Substance ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: LA Feed-in-Tariff, Solyndra Review, Coal Mining, EU ETS, Offshore Wind Lawsuit
Here's the latest policy, enforcement and legal news affecting corporate environmental and energy executives. Today's briefing includes 12 items.
Los Angeles City Council approved a measure ...
Honeywell to Destroy Ozone-Depleting Refrigerants for 125,000 Tons of Carbon Credits
Honeywell has begun destroying inventories of certain ozone-depleting refrigerants and selling the resulting emission reduction credits for use in California's greenhouse gas cap-and-trade program, the ...
What’s the Fracking Problem?
One image in the HBO movie Gasland changed our perception of shale gas: a Pennsylvania resident held a lit matchstick ...
OSHA Adopts Globally Harmonized System of Chemical Labeling
The U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration has revised its Hazard Communication Standard, aligning it with the United Nations' Globally Harmonized System of chemical classification ...
Adidas, Nike, H&M Clothing Emits Hazardous Chemicals when Washed, Greenpeace Says
Clothing from H&M, Adidas, Ralph Lauren and Nike, among others, discharges a significant amount of hazardous chemicals into water systems when washed by customers, according ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: PTC, China Solar Tariffs, Chemical Reporting, India and ETS
New bipartisan legislation seeks an extension to the production tax credit for wind energy under the American Energy and Job Promotion Act, after the measure ...
Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Superfund Sites, OECD Report on GHG, Tier 3 Standards
President Barack Obama and British Prime Minister David Cameron discussed the release of emergency oil reserves during a bilateral meeting this week, but no agreement ...
L’Oreal Funds $1.2m Animal-Free Toxicology Research with EPA’s ToxCast
The EPA and L'Oreal have announced a $1.2 million research collaboration designed to determine if the agency's chemical toxicity forecaster, ToxCast, can be used in ...
