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China's green revolution

Here's a nice interesting insight from my colleague John Richardson about China's fast track towards becoming the world's leader in clean technologies. If you're an ICIS subscriber ( about ICIS ), you can access the whole article in this link . Or you can also read the unedited somewhat...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008
Lost polar bears

Sometimes the way to get to your pocket is to tug your heart strings and this advertising about polar bears almost worked on mine. According to WWF , several polar bears are way miles away from home and swimming more in open waters to find food and shelter. "While these bears are swimming around...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-25-2008
Garbage war in Pennsylvania

Disposing trash must be really getting costlier if a hauler has to sue its municipal garbage authority for landfill discrimination. Lebanon Farms Disposal, a hauler from Schaefferstown, Pennsylvania, was fined in 2003 for violating Lebanon County's disposal regulation by transporting their refuse...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
Is there such a thing as clean coal?

While the US Congress is debating on offshore drilling , another debate that has been going on for years is government funding on another supposedly clean energy source, liquid coal. Environmentalists are definitely dead-set against using any types of coal even if they're supposedly clean. Here's...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-14-2008
Plastic bag fuss on West Coast

A lot of plastic news happening in the West Coast particularly in Seattle and Los Angeles that I did not have the time to talk about last week. According to several news sources, the city council of Los Angeles, California, voted a resolution on July 22 to ban all plastic bags from retail stores starting...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-12-2008
Next decade's weather forecast: BAD

Summer this year in New York has seen several weeks of downpours and continuous heat and humidity, and the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) said you ain't seen nothin' yet. The EPA released its climate change report last month and noted that continued global warming could likely increase...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-07-2008
E-waste export ban introduced

A bill banning the export of electronic waste to developing nations was introduced last week in Congress by Environment and Hazardous Materials subcommittee chairman Gene Green (D-Texas), and Rep. Mike Thompson (D-Calif.), a member of the Congressional E-waste Working Group. The H.RES.1395 resolution...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
Pollution solution in China

As China's Beijing continues to be shrouded with smog days before the Olympic games, more transportation solution is being offered to reduce air pollution from companies such as Segway and Alcoa . Chinese and Olympic officials are going to use the zero-emissions Segway PT for stadium and event hall...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-04-2008
A paid "no drilling" ad from WWF

Maybe World Wildlife Fund's (WWF) coffers are deeper than the chemical industry's if they can afford to post an ad in the New York Times about their opposition to Bush's oil drilling approval in Arctic waters and US coasts. The ad in yesterday's Times argues that more drilling would have...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-29-2008
What's today's air forecast in China?

In China, not only do you need forecasts for weather, pollen, UV rays, and wind, you also need to monitor air pollution forecasts especially with the incoming Summer Olympic Games in Beijing. Starting July 20, car traffic was restricted in the city in order to to take 50 percent of Beijing's 3,5...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-25-2008

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