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Prnewswire | September 22, 2020

Hurricane Laura made landfall on 27 August 2020 near Sasol's Lake Charles Chemical Complex in Southwest Louisiana, and is one of the strongest hurricanes on record to hit the United States. Significant property and utility infrastructure damage has been experienced across the region. Sasol's more than 800 Lake Charles employees are safe; however, hundreds of employees have suffered significant damage to their homes and remain in temporary housing while utility restoration and repair work...

Stateimpact | September 21, 2020

At a marina in Moundsville, West Virginia, Dan Williamson looked out across the Ohio River at a quiet stretch of land on the other side. “There’s a little activity going on,” said Williamson, a spokesman for PTT — an oil and gas company based in Thailand that wants to build an ethane cracker on the far side of the river, in Dilles Bottom, Ohio. “But really we’re kind of in between phases right now.” The plant would turn the region’s plentiful natur...

Prnewswire | September 19, 2020

The Pueblo Chemical Agent-Destruction Pilot Plant (PCAPP) team announced the safe and efficient destruction of nearly 300,000 155mm chemical weapons projectiles stored at the U.S. Army Pueblo Chemical Depot in Colorado, marking the end of the plant's first munitions campaign. In 1997, a presidential directive and the ratification of the Chemical Weapons Convention – an international treaty to destroy chemical weapons – called upon all member nations to destroy their chemical weap...

Cen | September 17, 2020

CEFIC, Europe’s leading chemical industry association, is calling on the European Commission to allocate a share of Europe’s proposed $875 billion COVID-19 Green Recovery fund to the chemical industry to help it recover from the pandemic and simultaneously transform itself into a more environmentally sustainable business. Over the next few years, the Commission plans to make about $455 billion in recovery funds available in the form of grants and another $420 billion as loans....