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Grupo Cydsa (Monterrey), one of Mexico's largest domestic chemical producers, with sales of $850 million/year, is alos emerging as one of the most aggressive in improving environmental performance. During the [...]

McKinsey: How did Dow's environmental strategy develop? Popoff: It has evolved over the years -- in line with that of the chemical industry. We often characterize this evolution in terms [...]

Chemical firms are preparing to meet the challenges of the Chemical Manufacturers Assn's product stewardship code. These challenges include determining how to handle self-evaluation forms, educating sales personnel and prioritizing resources. Dow Chemical is considered to have the chemical industry's most advanced product stewardship program, but it still expects implementation of the code to be difficult., When the Chemical Manufacturers Association sent the draft product stewardship code out to its members for comment before approval, the overwhelming response was concern over how difficult they thought it [...]

In November 1990 Peter M. Sandman, director of the environmental communication research program at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), gave a now-famous speech about public skepticism of the chemical industry's [...]

The Global Environment & Multinational Corporations The fact of human intervention in ecological processes is not in doubt. Despite uncertainties and continued controversy, human influences on the global environment appear […]

CMA board approval of responsible Care Management Systems Verification (MSV) earlier this year is a critical step for the U.S. chemical industry, which is trying to catch up with other [...]

Chemical companies' waste minimization practices and a slowdown in remediation efforts have environmental services players mired in tough times. Following 20%/year growth spurts in the 1980s, the business has matured [...]

In spite of all the economic pressures on businesses at the moment, European companies are still forging ahead with Responsible Care, says Louis Jourdan, senior director/technical affairs for the European [...]

Facing tough government regulation and intense international scrutiny, Mexico's chemical producers are attempting a radical environmental transformation. And with the industry already in an extensive restructuring because of the country's [...]

With the U.S. chemical industry still spewing about 850 million lbs/year of toxic pollutants into the air, land, and water, the effort to develop environmentally cleaner process technologies-and pay for [...]

The chemical industry advocates waste incineration as an environmentally sound alternative to land disposal. Many environmental groups also oppose land disposal. However, they also question the industry's need to build [...]

Progress varies by company and culture How do chief executive of Western companies, from their plush offices, keep tabs on what happens at chemical plants in developing countries? Many point [...]

Outside reviews: Key to credibility Even the motto 'Don't trust us, track us' recognizes that verification of Responsible Care achievements by outside parties is the key to credibility. While Toxics [...]

For General Chemical (Parsippany, NJ), implementing Responsibe Care is largely a story of a small-to-medium-size chemical firm coordinating separate efforts in the U.S. and Canada. The same is true for [...]

QUANTUM Spurred by Responsible Care's call for continuous, long-term improvements, Quantum Chemical's USI Division (Cincinnati) has set a series of goals to cut air emissions and hazardous waste generation over [...]

ROHM AND HAAS Rohm and Haas (Philadelphia) formed its first community advisory panel five years ago, when the company grew dissatisfied with the old model of community relations - donations [...]

Key issues for companies already working to meet proposed Clean Air Act 1990 Amendment rules include controlling the act's list of 189 hazardous air pollutants and getting permits to operate [...]

'Mobay was not among the founding fathers of Responsible Care, but we signed onto the guiding principles without any questions. It was right down the track we were already on,' [...]

Responsible Care may prove to be one of the biggest and best things that ever happened to the chemical industry. It represents a total public commitment to continuous improvement of [...]

One of the most ambitious pieces of environmental regulation attempted by the European Commission finally came into effect on 1 June. Allen & Overy's Matt Townsend explains the complexities Consortia [...]

As the EU's emissions-trading plan enters its next phase, we examine how successful it has been, and what the future holds The auctioning of allowances 'would be a big capital [...]

'Trace levels of BPA are well below any level that could cause harm' Juvenile Products Manufacturers Association A number of environmental groups are pressing California and the federal government to [...]

THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE HAS GIVEN W.R. GRACE UNTIL THE END of the month to turn over a list of the company's potential environmental liabilities in its filings with the [...]

THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS AT THE American Crop Protection Association (ACPA; Washington) has voted to initiate ACPA as a practitioner of Responsible Care, 13 years after ACC launched the program. [...]

ACC is developing six new statistical reporting requirements for member companies to give a broader reckoning of pollution prevention and safe operation under the Responsible Care program. Companies currently report [...]

THE BUSH ADMINISTRATION WILL LET STAND A JANUARY RULE THAT requires more facilities that use lead or lead compounds to report releases under EPA'S Toxics Release Inventory (TRI.) The law [...]

Cefic and the European Crop Protection Association (ECPA) have launched a voluntary initiative to notify the European Commission, European Union (EU) member governments, and the public of exports of certain [...]

SUPPLIERS OF chemicals to the auto industry will have to certify sites in the U.S. to the international environment standard ISO 14001 over the next several years. That has prompted [...]

ENVIRONMENT GROUP THE NORWEGIAN society for the conservation of nature (NNV; Oslo) is asking Bayer, Solutia, and Kanegafuchi Chemicals (Kanegafuchi, Japan) to pay for at least half of the estimated [...]

U.S TRADE REPRESENTATIVE ROBERT Zoellick says the Bush Administration will appoint a member of an environmental group to an industry panel that advises the White House on chemical trade matters. [...]

BASF'S PUSH TO foster environmentally sustainable activities is prompting a change in its research effort, says Stefan Marcinowski, BASF board member responsible for R&D. 'Underlying BASF's strategy is the premise [...]

Top Republicans and moderate Democrats in Congress joined with chemical industry leaders last week to promote a set of recommendations from the Business Roundtable (Washington) that aims to broadly reform [...]

The Chinese government says that all production of chlorofluorocarbons (CFC) in the country will be halted by year-end. China is the world's largest producer and consumer of CFCs. The phaseout [...]

In a ground-breaking deal with the US Environmental Protection Agency, refiners BP and Koch Petroleum have agreed to spend close to $600 million on environmental improvement measures, including higher levels [...]

What are the impacts for the petroleum refining industry of UK environmental directives for 2005 and beyond? A recent study by Foster Wheeler on behalf of the UK Environment Agency [...]

EPA is considering releasing a draft risk reassessment of dioxin later this year, which, for the first time, concludes that dioxin is a human carcinogen. The Chlorine Chemistry Council (CCC; [...]

Kemira Chemicals says it will undertake a program to reduce emissions of chlorinated organics from its plants at Helsingborg and Kokkola, Finland that produce potassium sulfate and hydrochloric acid. The [...]

THE LEAGUE OF CONSERVATION VOTERS (LCV; WASHINGTON) SAYS IT has pledged $6 million to defeat Congressional candidates that have poor overall voting records on environmental issues. LCV targeted 13 candidates [...]

It is a well-accepted chemical industry axiom that the sector maintains its 'license to operate' by improving environmental performance and being responsive to the public-the foundations of the Responsible Care [...]

China says it will conduct investigations over the next 6-12 months into alleged dumping of acrylic esters by Japanese, U.S. and German companies. The companies targeted are BASF's European and [...]

E. I. DU PONT DE NEMOURS & Co. has set a goal of reducing its greenhouse gas emissions to 65 percent below their 1990 levels by 2010. In addition, the [...]

EPA has issued its long-anticipated proposal to create a chemical-use inventory to help regulators evaluate risks based on industrial, commercial, and consumer uses. The proposal, which would amend biannual reporting [...]

This week's UN meeting will resume talks on ways to control POPs. GREENPEACE IS urging delegates to the United Nations negotiations on toxic chemicals to agree to eliminate dioxins at [...]

Mexican regulators will rate companies on environmental performance to compel firms to reduce emissions, according to state environment agency Profepa (Mexico City). The agency will publish the rankings-which assign companies [...]

Global carbon dioxide emissions declined 0.5%, to 6.32 billion m.t., in 1998 despite 2.5% worldwide economic growth, according to a report by the environmental group Worldwatch Institute (Washington). The institute [...]

The K.G.G. Hopkins Wetland, named for Dr. Keith Hopkins, chairman of Croda International Plc, was recently dedicated. Croda, Inc.'s manufacturing plant in Mill Hall, PA was responsible for creating the [...]

The Commerce Department last week proposed rules for implementing the Chemicals Weapons Convention (CWC), which will require approximately 2,000 U.S. chemical facilities to undergo inspections and submit reports on chemical [...]

In a industry with increasing environmental regulations and standards, the implementation of an EMS (environmental management system) has become paramount to ensuring compliance in an efficient and organized manner. However, [...]