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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 melamine-contaminated products). The Commission banned...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-29-2008
States of the green nation

Sustainlane.com, an online community focusing on sustainable living, released today its top green US cities for the year based on their ability to maintain healthy air, drinking water, parks and public transit systems, as well as a robust, sustainable local economy with green building, farmers markets...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-22-2008
Market crash in 2025

My colleague John Richardson looked at his crystal ball and saw history repeating itself, this time with another financial collapse in 2025 involving greedy green brokers, government ignorance on carbon technology, bubble collapse in green home mortgages, fake carbon certifications, and questionable...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 09-19-2008
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
Obama to end US oil era

Barack Obama's democratic national convention speech last night is probably sending shivers down an oil company's spine (and perhaps the petroleum industry as well??) as he promised to end America's oil dependence from the Middle East in 1o years if he's elected president. In his speech...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 08-29-2008
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
Climate change post footnote

Also check out this week's issue of ICIS Chemical Business (Disclosure: I work for ICIS ) featuring global regulatory issues such as Europe's REACH, worldwide climate change, California's Green Chemistry Initiative, and other environmental/health concerns challenging the chemical industry...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 06-03-2008
US officials introduced kid-safe chemical bill

Proliferating news on leaching chemicals in kids' mattresses, bottles, toys, and electronics have driven three government officials to introduce a new US chemical regulatory proposal targeting kid safety. Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ) and representatives Hilda Solis (D-Ca) and Henry Waxman (D-Ca...

Posted to ICIS Blogs (Weblog) by Anonymous on 05-27-2008

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