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Green powerless in chemicals

The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA), the Department of Energy (DOE), and the Center for Resource Solutions awarded late last month their annual Green Power Leadership Awards to 25 organizations/companies who either purchase, supply or develop renewable energy (solar, wind, geothermal, low-impact...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-17-2008
World Toilet Summit

I was eating breakfast while surfing the web, and thinking of serious election-aftermath stuff to post in the blog when this news about this week's ongoing World Toilet Summit in Macau caught my attention. At first I was amused by the notion of a global toilet expo and all the crappy notions that...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-05-2008
More politics on energy

Here's another energy-based issue that both US presidential candidates seem to agree on: the development of clean coal. According to the American Coalition for Clean Coal Electricity (ACCCE) , both Obama and McCain recognized the need for clean coal technology in order to utilize abundant coal resource...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 11-04-2008
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 plastic shopping bag waste by an average of 33...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-26-2008
No more explosive fertilizers!

Honeywell can be commended in the development of its new ammonium nitrate-based fertilizer, which the company said is not only as effective as the traditional product but it has lower explosive potential, which is very significant when it comes to cutting back potential terrorism activities. Hard as...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-23-2008
Lucky $26m green recipients

Is $26m enough to partially fund development of new energy efficient industrial processing? The US Department of Energy (DOE) seems to think so and has given the three-year funding to be shared by eight lucky projects: Energy Reduction and Advanced Water Removal via Membrane Solvent Extraction Technology...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-27-2008
More green needed for biochems

Thanks to Paul from Biotechnology Industry Organization ( BIO ) for alerting me on this hot off the press market study on industrial biotechnology by the US International Trade Commission (ITC). According to the ITC, research and development within the US bio-based chemical industry (including pharmaceuticals...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-17-2008
Carbon capture needed

Carbon capture and storage (CCS) technologies are very much needed to reduce one-third of the world's global carbon dioxide emissions, according to a report from the Boston Consulting Group . "CCS technology offers substantial benefits, but high cost and uncertainty have been a major roadblock...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-14-2008
California wants green floors

California's new 1% VOC-limit standards effective 2011 has driven JohnsonDiversey to reformulate its floor finish line Signature ultra. The company says the reformulated product has reduced VOC (volatile organic compounds) content by 40%. JohnsonDiversey is also reformulating 15 floor-finish products...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-11-2008
And this year's EPA green chemistry awards go to...

The visit of advanced materials company, SiGNa Chemistry, today in our office reminded me to post this year's recipients of the Presidential Green Chemistry Awards by the Environmental Protection Agency. 1. Battelle (Greener Synthetic Pathways Award) - development and commercialization of biobased...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 07-01-2008

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