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• Hybrids not suitable for NYC cabs?

  The country's largest taxi fleet association, Metropolitan Taxicab Board of Trade (MTBOT), is making its heaviest case against the mandated use of hybrids for cabs in New York City. Not only are hybrids currently expensive but according to MTBOT's... Posted Oct 09 2008, 10:31 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: General, studies and reports, NYC, Health and safety, hybrid, crash-test, taxicab

• Lithium hazards in the air

  The green blogger is back although still shaken from the aftermath of hurricane "office work". Before beginning to scan the world wide green news, this tidbit of information from the US Federal Aviation Administration (FAA) caught the attention... Posted Oct 08 2008, 01:51 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Regulation, General, electronics, Government, safety, Health and safety, aviation, batteries, lithium ion

• The rise and fall of mercury

  The use of mercury could slowly die out as Europe and the US recently passed a ban to export one of the most infamous element in chemical history. Yesterday, the US Congress approved the Mercury Market Minimization Act of 2008 , which would ban the export... Posted Sep 30 2008, 10:18 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Environment, EU, Regulation, Government, Congress, ban, mercury, Health and safety, export

• Agencies place melamine measures

  The Chinese melamine scare has spread far and wide across the globe (proving the powerful reach of China-made products) and so the European Commission announced several measures last week to protect Europeans from melamine-contaminated milk (and other... Posted Sep 29 2008, 02:20 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: US, China, Europe, Regulation, Government, Health and safety, milk, melamine, New Zealand

• Unsealing Green Seal

  Lots of news going on concerning the soap and detergent industry. The Soap and Detergent Association (SDA) sent a press release a couple of days ago about their objections on a revised environmental standard for industrial and institutional (I&I)... Posted Sep 29 2008, 04:11 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: chemicals, Company initiatives, General, studies and reports, certification, cleaning products, Health and safety, Green Seal

• No plastic bag ban from Wal-Mart

  Much to the relief of the chemical and plastic manufacturing community , the big box retailer giant Wal-Mart opts to reduce, reuse and recycle instead of implementing plastic shopping bag bans. Yesterday, Wal-Mart announced its goal to reduce its global... Posted Sep 26 2008, 06:46 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Wal-Mart, Company initiatives, General, R&D, Government, bans, plastic bag, recycle, Health and safety, garbage, reuse

• More BPA-free bottles

  I was debating with myself whether to post another bisphenol-A (BPA) story as it's getting to be too repetitive. Another study, this time from the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA), reported that the estrogenic chemicals are found... Posted Sep 17 2008, 11:44 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: study, Company initiatives, Products, studies and reports, Government, plastic bottle, Health and safety, BPA, diseases

• Here comes China melamine..again

  After a spectacular Olympic event in China, you'd kind of forget some of the tainted food and consumer goods problems that the country faced before then. Unfortunately, there has been another recent tainted food problem going around in China and this... Posted Sep 12 2008, 03:43 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: China, General, Government, Health and safety, melamine, infant formula

• Regulatory and sustainability in cosmetics

  On the second day of the HBA cosmetic show in New York City as I attended some presentations on their third annual regulatory summit, the buzzwords that frequently circulated throughout the program were green, California, bisphenol-A, phthalates, REACH... Posted Sep 11 2008, 05:52 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Environment, Regulation, green, Products, General, California, cosmetic, Government, sustainability, Health and safety, Reach, phthalates, BPA

• BPA saga continues

  Is bisphenol-A (BPA) in polycarbonate plastics and epoxy resin safe for use or not? The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) said there is no health risk associated with the chemical "although" further testing is required. The European Food... Posted Sep 04 2008, 01:54 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: General, studies and reports, Government, ACC, safety, report, Health and safety, FDA, BPA, EFSA, NTP

• Busting solar myths

  Wind turbine syndrome, vibro-acoustic disorder, and now solar blindness...Fact or fiction? The myth busters may have to work on these ones but for now, other myths in the solar energy area are being dispelled by the company Sunrise Solar . Myth 1: Solar... Posted Aug 27 2008, 10:32 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Company initiatives, Investments, General, studies and reports, solar, wind, energy, Health and safety, myth

• Beware of wind energy side effects

  Aside from its unprofitability forecast, maybe Shell knows something about wind energy that we don't when they pulled out of their UK offshore wind farm investment. According to this article from New Scientist , a study shows that the moving blades... Posted Aug 26 2008, 02:15 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: study, General, studies and reports, wind, Health and safety, health, bats

• BPA is safe says FDA

  The US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) released a report last week Thursday stating that there is no health risk in the use of bisphenol-A in food containers for infants and adults. The FDA is still proposing more testing strategy to erase the uncertainties... Posted Aug 18 2008, 01:45 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Wal-Mart, Products, General, Government, ACC, safety, ban, plastic bottle, Health and safety, FDA, BPA

• Cleaner livestock waste

  Residents near farms or livestock processing facilities will soon breathe a cleaner (and less smelly) sigh of relief. Bion Environmental Technologies said they now have a patent approval for their phosphorus removal process in livestock waste treatment... Posted Aug 12 2008, 02:37 PM by Green Chemicals Filed under: Environment, Company initiatives, Products, General, R&D, Health and safety, phosphorus, waste treatment, BION, patent, livestock

• Chicken gas powers Chinese farm

  Biogas from chicken manure will now power a big chicken farm in Beijing using GE's Jenbacher gas engines . According to GE, the plant, with annual capacity of 14,600 megawatt/hour electricity, is the first of its type in China designed to help reduce... Posted Aug 05 2008, 11:37 AM by Green Chemicals Filed under: China, Environment, electricity, Company initiatives, Investments, GE, farm, Health and safety, biogas