20.11.2013
- Dutch food and chemicals group DSM will spin off its pharmaceuticals unit into a new joint venture majority-owned by private equity firm JLL Partners as the company shifts its...
19.11.2013
- Exxon Mobil has agreed to sell its majority stakes in a Hong Kong utility and a power storage firm for a combined $3.4 billion, helping the U.S. oil major raise funds to plough...
19.11.2013
- Global carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels will rise to a record 36 billion tons this year, a report by 49 researchers from 10 countries said, showing the failure of...
19.11.2013
- Colorado announced proposed rules on Monday designed to reduce emissions during oil and gas operations in an agreement with drillers that addresses one key environmental concern...
19.11.2013
- The U.N. climate chief urged a radical clean-up of the coal industry on Monday to help limit global warming, at an industry meeting in Warsaw condemned by environmentalists as a...
19.11.2013
- Saudi Arabia may be starting to overcome a long addiction to generating electricity from its own oil, easing a nagging concern for a global market reliant on free-flowing crude...
18.11.2013
- EU environment commissioner Janez Potocnik has called for a uniform risk management framework for shale gas exploration across member states that would reap the long-term economic...
18.11.2013
- German chemical group Evonik is spending more than €100m capacity upgrade for isophorone and isophorone diamine at its Shanghai, China, complex. The expansion, designed to meet...
18.11.2013
- Lanxess has increased capacity for the high-performance intermediate cresol at Leverkusen, Germany, by 20% at a cost of €20 million. The Cologne-based specialty chemicals producer...
18.11.2013
- As part of the long-running discussion about German energy priorities in the country's post-nuclear age, which has taken center stage in the negotiations on forming a new federal...