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chemicalwatch | March 03, 2020

The US EPA has, for the first time under the amended TSCA, mandated companies to conduct testing in support of a risk evaluation for an existing chemical, according to chemicals office assistant administrator Alexandra Dunn. Speaking at ChemCon the Americas in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania yesterday, Ms Dunn said that EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler signed a TSCA section 4(a)(2) order pertaining to pigment violet – one of the first ten chemicals subject to TSCA risk evaluation – last w...

C&EN | March 30, 2020

The US chemical industry is endorsing the Environmental Protection Agency’s sweeping new policy to go easy on companies for all but criminal violations because of the COVID-19 pandemic caused by the virus SARS-CoV-2. But environmentalists and others criticize the new EPA policy as too expansive. They say it endangers the safety of workers, the public, and chemical plants. The EPA’s temporary enforcement policy, unveiled March 26, is broad yet does not treat all violations the same. F...

Chemicalwatch | May 06, 2020

The new chair of a UK parliamentary committee has expressed his concerns over the government's post-Brexit chemicals strategy, after its development was suspended due to the coronavirus Covid-19 pandemic. In a letter to minister of state George Eustice, Environmental Audit Committee chair Philip Dunne said that given the delays already incurred, the decision to pause work on it in order to prioritise the government's response to the pandemic was "regrettable". The Department fo...

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Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. | March 07, 2022

Nippon Shokubai Co., Ltd. working to achieve carbon neutrality by 2050, announces that it has obtained ISCC PLUS certification from the International Sustainability and Carbon Certification system (ISCC) (*1) for superabsorbent polymers (SAP) made by its subsidiary Nippon Shokubai Europe N.V. (hereinafter NSE) from caustic soda produced using electricity generated from renewable energy. SAP, commonly used in disposable diapers, is mainly made from acrylic acid produced from ...