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Daily Environment Report
October 16, 2017 - Number 198
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Leading the News
Chemicals Costco Turns to Berkeley Researchers for Green Chemistry Help Costco Wholesale Corp, will craft strategies for managing its products in what the retailer says is the first partnership between a major retailer and a university's green chemistry safety center.
Pesticides EPA, Monsanto, BASF Take Steps to Curb Dicamba Drift Monsanto Co., BASF Corp, and Dupont have agreed to limits on a pesticide linked to crop damage around the country.
REACH
Will U.K. Chemical Fin
arket Access Under Brexit?
Brexit may disrupt access to the European market for major chemical companies that
register their products for sale from the U.K., legal professionals told Bloomberg BNA.
News
Air Pollution Yeast Makers Get New Air Pollution Monitoring Requirements Yeast producers face new requirements to monitor their toxic air pollution emissions after the EPA concluded a mandated review of the pollution limits for the industry.
Climate Change EU Ministers Agree to Cuts for Non-Emissions Trading Sectors European Union environment ministers agreed in principle to implement a range of
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greenhouse gas emissions cuts through 2030 for certain sectors of their economies not covered by the EU's emissions trading system.
Coal Mining Coal Plants Are Dying in America's Most Energy-Friendly State Even in the heart of America's energy industry, coal can't catch a break.
Coal-Fired Power Plants The End of Coal Will Haunt Navajo Power Station Percy Deal, 67, lives in the same small, three-bedroom stone house he grew up in, situated in the remote Navajo village of Cactus Valley, Ariz. Like many homes in this part of the country, Deal's lacks running water, so once a month, he drives his pickup truck 17 miles to a public pump, where he fills three 55-gallon drums to bring back home. On the living room wall, his father's ceremonial feathers and sweat-stained cowboy hat hang over the couch next to a framed poem his father...
Emissions Trading EU Carbon Slides After Lawmakers Fail to Reach Overhaul Deal European Union carbon allowances fell the most in almost three weeks after the bloc's negotiators failed to reach a deal Oct. 13 to overhaul the region's cap-and-trade program, prolonging uncertainty over the fate of a plan to alleviate a market glut.
Energy Energy Regulator `Sympathetic' on Perry's Coal, Nuclear Plan Federal Energy Regulatory Commission Chairman Neil Chatterjee said Oct. 13 he's "sympathetic" to Energy Secretary Rick Perry's proposal aiming to prop up coal and nuclear plants in certain competitive energy markets.
Enforcement
Brazil Issues $2.3 Million in Fines for Poaching Amaz<
les
Brazil issued 18 fines totaling 7.2 million reais ($2.3 million) for poaching endangered
Amazon river turtles and their eggs, according to IBAMA, the enforcement arm of the
Environment Ministry.
Environmental Reviews Green Investors Seek More Data from Companies, More Frequently Annual sustainability reports just aren't cutting it as investors pump more money into ethical investment funds.
Hydropower Canada Wants to Solve U.S. Nuclear Problems with Faraway Dams The key to replacing aging nuclear plants in the U.S. Northeast may lie 1,000 miles away, along a remote river tumbling through the Canadian wilderness.
Lead Paint Michigan Lead Abatement Manager Cleared in Homeowner Suit The head of Michigan's residential lead abatement program isn't liable for a Kalamazoo family's lead paint exposure, a Michigan appeals court ruled (Crawford v. Priem, 2017 BL 367007, Mich. Ct. App., No. 334172, unpublished 10/12/17).
Process Safety
Small Chemical Fir
:e Safety Issues With Less Resources
Small and mid-size chemical companies face the same challenges as large chemical
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companies when it comes to safety processes, but bigger firms have more manpower, money, and time to do so.
REACH European Union Wants More Information on Companies' Nanomaterials 3M Europe, Solvay S.A., and other companies that produce chemicals at the nano-scale would have to provide the European Chemicals Agency more detailed information on their products under a draft European Union regulation.
Regulatory Policy White House Environmental Adviser's Confirmation Faces Logjam President Donald Trump's pick for the White House's top environmental adviser faces a slow path to confirmation and strong opposition from Senate Democrats.
Renewable Energy Kore m m ny Planning $4.5 Billion Solar Project in Chile The South Korean energy company Andes Green Energy is planning a $4.5 billion solar project in northern Chile that will combine conventional photovoltaic panels and thermal technology that will generate electricity at night.
Renewable Energy Rooftop Solar, Batteries Go on Every Home in Arizona Development Arizona's ample sunshine will be put to work to eliminate utility bills for residents of a residential development planned for Prescott Valley, the largest U.S. planned residential community to use systems linking each home to create a neighborhood-wide power grid.
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