Keyword: global warming

Strategy & Management

Hard Times for Bio-based Products

03.04.2018 - Petroleum is a limited resource and if we keep using it global warming will accelerate. Since this realization has filtered in the quest for alternatives has begun. Shale gas and...

News

Industry and Environmentalists Slam HFC Ruling

17.08.2017 - US chemical producers who have invested heavily in environmentally friendly cooling products have criticized a 3-2 US federal appeals court ruling this month, which said the...

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Paris Accord May be Derailed by Cheats

10.08.2017 - US President Donald Trump’s announcement of the American withdrawal from the Paris Accord is not the only threat to achieving the ambitious targets of the climate agreement and may...

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

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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Chemours Builds Refrigerant Plant in Texas

04.05.2016 - US-based Chemours is spending $230 million to build a manufacturing plant for hydrofluoroolefin (HFO) 1234yf, a new refrigerant with extremely low global warming potential (GWP)...

Strategy & Management

The Heat Is On

28.10.2015 - The European chemical industry has warned that doubts about proposed changes to the European Union’s carbon emissions trading system (ETS) could hold back investment in...

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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...