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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 of elemental mercury, prohibit federal agencies...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-30-2008
Drilling to save the environment

Here is another interesting economic analysis (with a little facts and numbers for those who like hard data) from the New York Times on US offshore drilling . According to Robert Hahn, director of the Reg-Markets Center at the American Enterprise Institute, and Peter Passell, senior fellow at the Milken...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-15-2008
US offshore drilling un-banned

Just saw this news from ICIS that President Bush is lifting an executive ban on offshore drilling that has long stood since his dad was president. The presidential offshore development ban was put in place by the first President Bush in 1990 while Congress also banned oil and gas drilling off the US...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008

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