Circle of Blue

FEBRUARY 15, 2023

Ongoing Battle to Keep Toxic Chemicals at Bay Outdated federal water laws and chemicals that were approved for industry without assessing for risk leave Ann Arbor and other communities struggling to ward off water contaminants before they foul drinking supplies. It was headed toward Ann Arbor’s intake pipes.

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Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 30, 2023

The programs focus on climate technology efforts that have the potential of scaling into a profitable business, and the organization emphasizes eight target industries: agriculture, chemicals, computing, electricity, manufacturing, transportation, buildings, and defense.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 18, 2024

On April 18, Texas-based Encina Development Group announced it will not move forward with its chemical plastics recycling plant in Northumberland County "at the current time." Chemical recycling is not a solution to the plastics crisis. The company said it will pursue other projects in the US, Saudi Arabia and Southeast Asia.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 21, 2024

One year ago, UCS published a report on ethylene oxide (EtO), a colorless toxic gas that is emitted by chemical manufacturing and medical device sterilization facilities. And these regulations are not a surprise to the industry. This is also not the first time the sterilization industry has attempted to weaken these regulations.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JANUARY 23, 2023

An interview with two leading scientists in the emerging field of cumulative risks and impacts Scientists call the many thousands of toxic chemicals that enter our environment “toxicants.” We spoke about the science and regulatory authority to move beyond a one chemical-one source approach. Do they accumulate in our bodies?

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Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 22, 2022

The grid energy storage industry represents a much smaller fraction of the lithium-ion battery market than electric vehicles, but it too has a responsibility to ensure batteries are responsibly and sustainably produced and then productively recirculated at end-of-life. Encourage battery manufacturers to design for disassembly.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

FEBRUARY 9, 2023

The ban would have only covered new facilities, but pushback by such industry groups as the American Chemistry Council—the chemical industry’s top trade association—convinced the EPA to scrap the idea. And, as I just mentioned, ethylene oxide is used in many chemical manufacturing processes.

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Clean Energy Law

JANUARY 18, 2024

This covers chemicals, civil nuclear, communications, defence, emergency services, energy, finance, food, government, health, space, transport, and water. 2 These are creative industries, digital technology, green industries, life sciences, and advanced manufacturing. 3 Critical Imports and Supply Chains Strategy

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 11, 2023

Green hydrogen, produced using electrolysis and renewable electricity, can play a unique and critical role in decarbonizing high-heat industrial processes, such as manufacturing steel, chemicals, and cement. industrial process … Continue reading Green Hydrogen Technology Assessment

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Union of Concerned Scientists

OCTOBER 6, 2022

You may have heard about the chemical, ethylene oxide (EtO), making headlines lately for posing health risks to communities across the country. It is also used to make other component chemicals in products ranging from plastics to antifreeze. I’ve compiled some information to get you started. What is ethylene oxide and how is it used?

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Circle of Blue

JULY 26, 2022

A Chicago Tribune investigation finds PFAS chemicals widespread across Illinois. Wisconsin ’s attorney general sues 18 chemical manufacturers over PFAS contamination. Industries and public water supplies top the list of main consumers of Great Lakes water — Michigan Radio. Fresh from the Great Lakes News Collaborative.

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Enviromental Defense

JULY 14, 2023

Today, we’ve arrived at the end of that pipeline where we’ll be taking a tour of Canada’s “Chemical Valley”—a cluster of refineries in southwestern Ontario that will turn oil transported by Line 5 into plastics and petrochemicals. Ontario is a hub for the polluting oil refining and related plastics industry.

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Brag

DECEMBER 7, 2023

6413) would increase funding for grants to support innovation in the biofuels and bioproducts industry. The Agricultural Biorefinery Innovation and Opportunity (Ag BIO) Act (H.R.

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Legal Planet

JULY 18, 2023

This may be the most controversial of the emergency response proposals I want to consider, primarily because industrial carbon capture has been branded by the environmental justice community as a false solution. Governments are providing incentives, and the industry is progressing. Here’s Part 1 and Part 2 ).

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JUNE 29, 2022

A local chemical manufacturer had an ethylene oxide leak , with nearly 3,000 pounds of the chemical released into the community. The risk of explosion ultimately shut down the Delaware Memorial Bridge to traffic, and residents were told to shelter in place as the flammable chemical leaked from the plant.

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Law and Environment

JULY 26, 2022

Moreover, its importance in manufacturing cannot be overestimated. The EPA health advisory prompted a law suit earlier this month by Chemours , which manufactures GenX. In sum, the responsible manufacturing of fluoropolymers in the United States is critical to furthering U.S.

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Capaccio

JUNE 27, 2023

Over the last few years, Environmental, Social and Corporate Governance (ESG) has become an industry buzzword, but what exactly does that mean for your company? Top hot-button issues for all industries are polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAs ) and climate change. The Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) in the U.S.

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Environmental News Bits

JULY 18, 2022

NOVA Chemicals is planning a pilot-scale reactor for plastics pyrolysis in 2022, the latest recycling-related move from the resin manufacturer. Read the full story at Plastics Recycling Update.

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Nanotech

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

The Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) Series on the Safety of Manufactured Nanomaterials is to provide up-to-date information on the OECD activities related to human health and environmental safety. In September 2022, OECD has published two new reports. Advanced Materials: Working Description (No.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 11, 2023

The Ohio River Valley Institute will host an April 17 webinar on “ Green Steel in the Ohio River Valley: The Timing is Right for the Rebirth of a Clean, Green Steel Industry ” from 1:30 to 2:30 p.m.

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SPR Law

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) published a proposed rule to ban all manufacturing and use of trichloroethylene (TCE) under Section 6(a) of the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA) (15 U.S.C.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 11, 2022

A tire chemical that was poisoning fish out West has been discovered in two Lake Ontario tributaries. Scientists looked at heavy metals, various chemical contaminants, water temperature and oxygen levels, but none of these things were the problem. Credit: Lester Graham, Michigan Radio.

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PA Environment Daily

APRIL 6, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan released proposed standards for the chemical manufacturing sector to protect people from the hazardous air pollution emitted by more than 200 of the largest, most toxic chemical and plastic manufacturing facilities in the country with at least three located in Pennsylvania.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 19, 2021

Last week, green chemical solutions advocate Clean Production Action unveiled GreenScreen Certified for Cleaners & Degreasers in Manufacturing, a tool to assess chemical safety in the industrial sector. Read the full story at Environment + Energy Leader. Read more →

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OCTOBER 1, 2023

1) PFOS (perfluorooctane sulfonic acid) and PFOA (perfluorooctanoic acid) belong to a class of human-made chemicals known as PFAS, or per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances. (2) 2) PFAS are characterized by their carbon-fluorine bonds, which are among the strongest in chemistry, giving them the nickname “forever chemicals.”

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PA Environment Daily

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

On September 19, the Department of Environmental Protection announced it is ramping up monitoring and plans to develop a surface water standard for PFAS 'forever chemicals' after a DEP/U.S. Geological Survey study found 76% of streams and rivers sampled contained at least one of these chemicals. Read more here.] [The

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Ohio Environmental Law

FEBRUARY 25, 2024

EPA provides the following examples of SWMUs: container storage areas, tanks, surface impoundment, waste piles, land treatment units, landfills, incinerators, underground injection wells and other physical, chemical and biological treatment units. This would include TSDFs where a prior RCRA Corrective Action was completed.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 20, 2023

The automotive industry continues to grow a record of sustainability, improving fuel efficiency and proliferating electric vehicles, and adopting eco-friendly manufacturing processes. Read the full story from Foley & Lardner LLP.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 15, 2023

Environmental Protection Agency announced the final Good Neighbor Plan , a rule that will significantly cut smog-forming nitrogen oxide pollution from power plants and other industrial facilities in 23 states.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 5, 2024

This lawsuit resulted in the public disclosure of 30 million pages of industry internal documents on how, for decades, these companies hid scientific evidence showing that their products can result in conditions like cancer, heart disease, and addiction. In 1998, the US government won a famous lawsuit against the tobacco companies.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 15, 2021

Clean Production Action has released GreenScreen Certified,™ for Cleaners & Degreasers in Manufacturing to promote safer chemical use and innovation in the electronics sector and beyond.

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Environmental News Bits

JANUARY 20, 2022

Tidal Vision uses “green chemistry” — defined as chemical products and processes that don’t generate hazardous substances — to extract the chitin from crab shells, the company says. It then produces industry specific chitosan products in easy-to-use liquid form.

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Legal Planet

MARCH 15, 2023

These chemicals can irritate airways and exacerbate respiratory diseases, according to the Bay Area Air Quality Management District (BAAQMD). Additionally, NOx react with other chemicals in the air to create other harmful pollutants, like fine particulate matter and ozone.

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Enviromental Defense

JUNE 2, 2023

PFAS manufacturers must be held accountable for the widespread harm and contamination they have inflicted on people and the environment. PFAS manufacturers must be held accountable for the widespread harm and contamination they have inflicted on people and the environment.

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Inhabitant

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The beauty industry has a bad reputation to mend. It’s plagued with a history of chemical use, cheap plastic packaging and questionable animal welfare ethics. The addition of the cruelty-free label means no animals were experimented on during the development or manufacturing of the product.

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PA Environment Daily

MARCH 12, 2024

The signs will be placed at the outfall and downstream of it, detailing several hazardous chemicals, including arsenic, lead, cyanide, cadmium, and hexavalent chromium, that are permitted for discharge there. Google Maps location ).

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PA Environment Daily

AUGUST 31, 2023

DEP selected a combination of on-site chemical injections, soil mixing, engineering practices, institutional controls, and long-term monitoring to address the soil, groundwater, and surface water contamination. Several industrial businesses manufactured stainless steel tubes at the 13.7-acre

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