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Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Social Cost of Carbon, GHG Reporting, ‘Wasteful’ Pesticide Regs

November 6, 2013July 3, 2017 by Tamar Wilner

The White House has issued updated values for the social cost of carbon, reflecting “minor technical corrections,” The Hill reports. The changes lower the central estimated value of the SCC in 2015 to $37 per metric ton of CO2, from the $38 estimate released in May. The Office of Information and ... Read more »

Policy & Enforcement Briefing: Water Act, RFS Suit Looms, Kauai GMO Bill

October 18, 2013July 3, 2017 by Tamar Wilner

The House will take up the Water Resources Reform and Development Act next week, according to a statement by Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-CA). The Senate passed the act in May. The American Petroleum Institute plans to sue if the EPA does not finalize the 2014 Renewable Fuel Standard by the ... Read more »

BASF, Bayer Among Chemical Firms Pushing Supply Chain Sustainability

October 15, 2013October 15, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Chemical companies BASF, Bayer, Evonik Industries, Henkel, Lanxess and Solvay have concluded their first year of piloting sustainability assessments and audits in global supply chains. The companies’ joint initiative, Together for Sustainability (TfS), aims to develop and implement a global supplier engagement program that assesses and improves chemical sustainability sourcing ... Read more »

BASF, Heritage Plastics Bring Compostable Bioplastic Manufacturing to US

October 4, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

BASF has formed a manufacturing partnership with Heritage Plastics to produce ecovio-certified compostable products in North America. The partnership enables BASF to begin manufacturing its ecovio bioplastic outside of Europe and focus on growth in the North American market, the company says. Production of ecovia has begun at the Heritage ... Read more »

California Chemical Rules: A Hidden Opportunity?

September 30, 2013September 30, 2013 by Tamar Wilner

Chemical industry representatives are expressing concern over California’s Safer Consumer Products initiative, which takes effect tomorrow. Under the program, the state will ask manufacturers to investigate the feasibility of replacing toxic chemicals in their goods, starting with five priority products to be identified by April. The five initial products could ... Read more »

Major Players Exit High Temperature PEM Fuel Cell Technology

September 3, 2013 by Environmental Leader

BASF and ClearEdge have both exited the high temperature proton exchange membrane (HT-PEM) fuel cell development market, but that does not mean the technology is declining, reports Fuel Cell Today. Instead, their exit will open up the market and enable smaller players to service it. BASF announced that it would ... Read more »

Dow’s 6 Secrets to Corporate Sustainability Leadership

August 28, 2013 by Leon Walker

Corporations, like leaders, display habits that can identify their commitment to sustainability, says Dow Chemical’s vice president of sustainability and environment, Neil Hawkins. He singles out six habits that he says leading green businesses must embody in a column for Ensia magazine. Hawkins categorizes the habits under three core ideas: ... Read more »

Toxic 100 Names Top Corporate Air Polluters

August 23, 2013September 5, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Precision Castparts, DuPont, Bayer Group, Dow Chemicals and ExxonMobil are the top five corporate air polluters in the US, say researchers at the Political Economy Research Institute (PERI) at the University of Massachusetts Amherst. BASF ranks No. 6, with LyondellBasell Industries, Renco Group, General Electric and Ineos Group rounding out ... Read more »

Sustainability Consortium Deepens China Ties

August 23, 2013 by Kirsten Korosec

The Sustainability Consortium, an organization that creates sustainability standards for consumer products, is partnering with Nanjing University, nearly a year after launching operations in China. Nanjing University staff will work with TSC researchers to identify the social and environmental issues associated with consumer products and find ways to improve their ... Read more »

GE, BASF, Others Receive $36M DOE Funding for EV Energy Storage

August 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

General Electric and BASF are among the 22 organizations to receive a total of $36 million from the Department of Energy’s Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) to develop electric vehicle energy storage systems using innovative chemistries, architectures and designs. The ARPA-E’s program, Robust Affordable Next Generation Energy Storage Systems (RANGE), ... Read more »

Will Carbon Fiber ‘Lego Bricks’ Build Airplanes of the Future?

August 22, 2013August 22, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

MIT engineers have developed carbon fiber “Lego bricks” — interlocking blocks that can be used to build large structures — that are 10 times stiffer than comparable lightweight materials, ExtremeTech reports. The online technology publication says robots could mass-produce these carbon fiber blocks, which could then be used to build ... Read more »

Cleaning Product Industry Cuts GHGs 12% in One Year

August 7, 2013August 7, 2013 by Jessica Lyons Hardcastle

Dow Chemical, Ecolab, SC Johnson, Seventh Generation and other American Cleaning Institute member companies reduced their greenhouse gas emissions 12 percent from 2010 to 2011, according to the ACI’s 2013 Sustainability Report. The cleaning product industry’s second sustainability report shows overall decreases by member companies in four environmental metric data ... Read more »

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