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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 ...

Chemical Engineering | March 01, 2020

Chemtiva is a new digital platform that is designed to help users make informed decisions regarding commercial feasibility, compliance and safety of products. Chemtiva integrates leading scientific and commercial information into a single platform addressing information and data needs and supporting cross-functional collaboration between R&D, scaleup and environmental, health and safety (EHS) functions. Chemtiva utilizes proprietary domain-specific taxonomies, ontologies and data-science tec...

Medical | August 27, 2020

Scientists at the U.S. Department of Energy's Ames Laboratory have discovered a metal-free carbon-based catalyst that has the potential to be much less expensive and more efficient for many industrial concerns, including manufacturing of bio- and fossil fuels, electrocatalysis, and fuel cells. At their most fundamental, these industry processes involve splitting strong chemical bonds, like hydrogen-hydrogen, carbon-oxygen, and carbon-hydrogen bonds. Traditionally this has been accomplished w...

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EnginZyme | February 11, 2021

EnginZyme, an organization building up an technology platform for sustainable production of chemicals, today reported it has shut an extension to its Series A financing round, bringing the complete raised to €11 million. The extension round was driven by Industrifonden, Sweden's deep tech funding firm, followed by SEB Greentech VC and existing shareholders. “Current bio-manufacturing processes are too expensive and too difficult to scale to be economically feasible ...