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Canada plans to ban phthalates

Last week Friday, Canada's Minister of Health announced their planned proposal to ban phthalates in soft vinyl toys and child-care articles as well as further reduction limits of lead in consumer products. Canada is proposing regulations to prevent...

Published 23 Jun 2009 17:02 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Canada, Regulation, Government, bans, Health and safety, phthalates, children, lead
BPA under fire from new studies

And the bisphenol-A (BPA) cycle of "is it safe or not?" goes on... Several studies have again come out mostly from the Endocrine Society and none of them were pleasing to the BPA manufacturers' (and consumers') ears. First stop is during...

Published 19 Jun 2009 19:36 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: studies and reports, ACC, Health and safety, BPA, health, studies
The challenge of biopesticides

Got the copy of my latest article about biopesticide , with pretty cool (and a little gross) graphic of a venus flytrap. As previously tweeted , I was intrigued by how the biopesticide industry have been struggling in the overall pesticide and crop protection...

Published 15 Jun 2009 22:13 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Environment, Regulation, Company initiatives, Investments, General, R&D, EPA, Health and safety, biopesticide, regulations
EPA cancels carbofuran use

Before I delved more deeply into the green regulatory buzzwords of the week CAFE (Corporate Average Fuel Economy) and ACES (American Clean Energy and Security Act), let me go to the more simple news such as this cancellation of carbofuran registration...

Published 20 May 2009 22:05 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Regulation, EPA, Government, pesticide, Health and safety, carbofuran, FMC
Guides to safe plastics

Plastic manufacturers beware! I've been seeing a lot of these "Guides on safe plastics" in the tweeting world... Here's one from the Oregon Physicians for Social Responsibility . They place HDPE (#2), LDPE (#4) and PP (#5) as safe plastics...

Published 20 May 2009 17:58 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: plastics, General, studies and reports, Health and safety, internet, safe, guides
Wood or plastic?

The National Wooden Pallet and Container Association put out a press release yesterday about the possible toxic hazards of plastic pallets because they contain the flame retardant deca-bromine. Non-fire retardant plastic pallets, meanwhile, can pose fire...

Published 15 Apr 2009 16:56 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Regulation, Products, General, plastic, flame retardants, wood, Health and safety, flooring, pallet
US anti-chemical campaigns intensify

ICIS News (subscription required) reported on Wednesday about the intensifying anti-chemical attacks from state-legislative and advocacy groups and that according to the American Chemistry Council , it is getting harder for the chemical industry to contest...

Published 10 Apr 2009 17:20 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Environment, chemicals, Regulation, studies and reports, Government, ACC, Health and safety, advocates, media
Ethanol update: The good and the bad

THE GOOD NEWS: A new report from the International Energy Agency said that greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions savings from corn ethanol production and use have more than doubled between 1995 and the projected level in 2015. The report said that GHG reductions...

Published 6 Apr 2009 21:03 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: ethanol, Environment, studies and reports, Government, greenhouse gas, Health and safety, antibiotic, DDGS
Africa's lions poisoned by pesticide

I was horrified by last week's CBS' Sixty Minutes report (see video below) about lions in Kenya being poisoned by cattle herders and ranchers using the insecticide Furadan. Furadan is currently manufactured by US chemical company FMC for crop...

Published 6 Apr 2009 15:02 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Regulation, Products, Government, kenya, pesticide, Health and safety, FMC, lions, poison
New York buzz on BPA

Several New York news are recently buzzing about bisphenol-A (BPA) in polycarbonate baby bottles as Senator Charles Schumer (along with Senator Dianne Feinstein of Calif. and Rep. Edward Markey of Mass.) led a nationwide proposal to ban the plastic bottles...

Published 31 Mar 2009 17:09 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Regulation, General, Government, bisphenol A, Health and safety, New York, baby bottles
Chinese drywall in the spotlight

Another bad mark for Chinese-made products is this news I came across a few weeks ago about toxic Chinese-made dry wall. According to advocacy group America's Watchdog , toxic imported Chinese dry wall are being discovered all over the state of Florida...

Published 29 Mar 2009 15:25 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: China, studies and reports, Health and safety, toxic, drywall
Think about the children!

You've read about the ruckus that the recently-enforced Consumer Product Safety Improvement Act (CPSIA) is causing to small business retailers and libraries. Here's a commentary from my colleague Ivan Lerner about the foolishness of this law and...

Published 19 Mar 2009 14:35 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: books, Regulation, toys, Government, kids, Health and safety, consumer products, lead, CPSIA
What's inside SC Johnson?

Now you will know what SC Johnson is using in their air care and home cleaning products such as Windex®, Pledge®, Glade®, and Scrubbing Bubbles® (among others) as the company pledged (Lol! no pun intended) to list all of their ingredients including dyes...

Published 16 Mar 2009 19:23 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Company initiatives, Products, label, cleaning products, Health and safety, phthalates, SC Johnson, ingredient, air care
Lawsuit on coal ash spill

I have so many news on draft that it might take a while to post all of them so for those who sent me their press releases and interesting stories, please bear with me. For now, here is an interesting update on the coal ash spill in Tennessee, which happened...

Published 3 Mar 2009 15:20 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Environment, EPA, Government, coal, lawsuit, Health and safety, Tennessee
BP pays $180m for clean air violations

The US Department of Justice has fined BP Products North America almost $180 million for violating EPA's Clean Air Act regulations at its Texas City, Texas refinery. BP agreed to the settlement and will spend more than $161m on pollution controls...

Published 24 Feb 2009 16:09 by Green Chemicals

Filed under: Environment, BP, Regulation, Government, Health and safety, fine, petroleum refinery, Clean Air Act

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