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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....

Univar Solutions | June 30, 2020

Univar Solutions Inc. ("Univar Solutions"), a global chemical and ingredient distributor and provider of value-added services, announced today that it has reached an agreement with Vink Chemicals to distribute a portfolio of biocides in Brazil. The new authorization from Vink, a specialty biocide and biocidal products producer, includes brands appropriate for a wide variety of industries such as homecare and industrial cleaning, energy, and performance chemicals as well as coatings, ad...

WHYY | January 21, 2020

The state Department of Environmental Protection says it will take “years” to resolve its dispute with five chemical companies which it has accused of contaminating many areas of New Jersey with toxic PFAS chemicals. Some nine months after issuing a strongly worded “Directive” to the companies to test, treat and remove the chemicals from soil and water around their facilities, the DEP issued a statement on Jan. 17 in response to a question from NJ Spotlight on why it had ...

Safety+Health Magazine | January 16, 2020

United Steelworkers is suing the Environmental Protection Agency and its administrator, Andrew Wheeler, over the agency’s recent changes to the Obama-era Chemical Disaster Rule. In a lawsuit filed Jan. 7 in the U.S. District Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit, USW is petitioning the court to restore the original text of the rule. EPA’s Risk Management Program Reconsideration final rule, which took effect Dec. 19, eliminated various provisions intended to prevent fu...