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Trump’s Climate Deal Exit Disappoints Chemical Industry

04.06.2017 - The US chemical industry has expressed its disappointment over President Trump’s decision to exit the Paris climate change agreement. Under the landmark deal finalized in December...

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CEOs Urge Trump to Keep Paris Climate Treaty

19.05.2017 - Leaders of major companies, including several chemical producers, have published an open letter in business newspaper Wall Street Journal urging US President Donald Trump not to...

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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...

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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...

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ExxonMobil CEO Chosen for US Secretary of State

19.12.2016 - Continuing in the mode of choosing people for his cabinet who are not politicians and who have ties to industry, US president-elect, Donald Trump, has chosen ExxonMobil’s chairman...

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Most Scots Back Fracking Moratorium

24.11.2016 - Supporters and opponents of fracking in Scotland continue to be divided as to the merits of shale gas exploration, but more than half of those responding to a poll taken after...

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Environment MEPs Specify CO2 Targets

28.09.2015 - The European Parliament’s delegation to the COP 21 climate talks scheduled to be held in Paris from Nov. 30 to Dec.11 must call for a 40% cut in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030, a...

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Low Oil Prices Pose Challenges for European Chemical Industry

24.03.2015 - The sharp drop in oil prices in the second half of last year is causing some dilemmas not only for individual chemical producers in Europe, particularly those making petrochemicals...