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November 01, 2024
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Safey + Health | Kevin Druley | Oct. 30, 2024The Chemical Safety Board reached a milestone of 1,000 safety recommendations and distanced itself from a long-standing investigative backlog, among other accomplishments, in fiscal year 2024. |
ICIS | Al Greenwood | Al Greenwood | Oct. 24, 2024The chemical industry is hopeful that falling inflation and interest rates will lead to a recovery in demand in 2025. “It is only a question of when, not if,” said Heidi Petz, CEO of Sherwin-Williams, a US-based paints and coatings producer. |
Houston Chronicle | Andrea Leinfelder | Oct. 24, 2024Texas regulators are considering allowing SpaceX to routinely dump more than 30,000 gallons of industrial wastewater into South Texas wetlands – a practice the company has already been doing and that locals and environmental activists say could harm the sensitive ecosystem. |
Plastics News | Sarah Kominek | Oct. 25, 2024Covestro is tackling monomaterials as a pillar of its circularity goals in automotive and electronics applications to help customers design parts and devices that are easier to recycle at end of life as it invests in R&D operations globally. |
Plastics News | Steve Toloken | Oct. 25, 2024As the plastics treaty heads toward the finish line, the debate over limits or caps on virgin resin production has gotten louder, with the Biden administration and now some global businesses publicly backing limits. |
Houston Chronicle | Jonathan Diamond | Oct. 28, 2024Occidental Petroleum said Friday that a Canadian investment firm had made an unsolicited "mini-tender offer" to purchase up to 2 million shares of Oxy common stock at $51.51 per share. |
Associated Press | Matthew Daly | Oct. 29, 2024President Joe Biden announced the federal funding Tuesday during a visit to the city’s main port, saying the money will improve and electrify port infrastructure at 55 sites nationwide while supporting an estimated 40,000 union jobs, reducing pollution and combating the climate crisis. The presidential visit, a week before Election Day, was intended to highlight efforts by Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris to promote clean energy while protecting and creating jobs. |
Associated Press | Josh Funk | Oct. 29, 2024The grants announced Tuesday by the Federal Railroad Administration will go to projects across 41 states and Washington, D.C. Most of the money will go to track and bridge upgrades. But some of the grants will be used to bolster training and explore cleaner-burning alternatives to the diesel railroads have long relied on. Some small railroads will also get help upgrading to more efficient locomotives. |
Houston Chronicle | Amanda Drane | Oct. 29, 2024A first of its kind facility is taking shape in West Texas, as Houston-based Occidental Petroleum puts the finishing touches on “Stratos,” a project which aims to start sucking climate-warming carbon dioxide from the air and storing it underground next spring. |
Longview News-Journal | Samuel Shaw | Oct. 29, 2024As Eastman Chemical Co. prepares to expand its Longview-area plant with a $1.2 billion plastic recycling facility, a proposed air quality permit submitted to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality provided the clearest picture yet of what the new build could mean for local air pollution. |
BIC Magazine | Reuters | Oct. 25, 2024Federal regulators gave an ExxonMobil and Qatar Energy LNG joint venture a 3-year extension to finish building their Golden Pass LNG plant, a regulatory document showed. The extension was granted due to delays caused when lead construction contractor Zachry Holdings filed for bankruptcy in March, according to a Federal Energy Regulatory Commission filing. |
Houston Chronicle | Amanda Drane | Nov. 1, 2024Texas oil and gas regulators requested more than $100 million in emergency funds from the state last week to address pressing problems related to uncapped wells and oil field wastewater. |
CIO | Martha Heller | Oct. 30, 2024Celanese operates more than 50 large manufacturing plants across 27 countries, and has made several significant acquisitions in recent years, including Dupont’s $11 billion mobility and materials (M&M) business. At the same time, the company is undergoing a massive digital transformation. Sameer Purao, who joined Celanese as CIO and CDO in 2021, is keeping the team and company focused by making change management a core competency of his team, and ensuring a focus on value, agility, and purpose. |
Resource Recycling | Antoinette Smith | Oct. 30, 2024The key to implementing effective recycling legislation is to adopt a collaborative, regionally tailored approach, according to a policy expert at the fall member meeting of the Association of Plastic Recyclers. |
The Messenger | Austin Jackson | Oct. 30, 2024The tests indicated high levels of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) in the soil, ponds, well water, and animal tissue, according to a PEER analytical report provided to Johnson County Commissioners. Detection of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, is not rare, due to their use in a wide range of consumer products, like paper packaging, nonstick cookware and cosmetics. But studies have indicated exposure to several of these man-made chemicals may pose health risks to humans and animals and affect the environment. |
The Wall Street Journal | Daniel Yergin | Oct. 30, 2024This year’s presidential race features an oddity: a discussion about a ban on fracking. What’s striking is that such a conversation is happening at all. This talk takes participants through the Wayback Machine to the first two decades of this century, when hydraulic fracturing and horizontal drilling—together known as fracking—came to public attention. The U.S. was then the world’s largest importer of oil. Today it is energy-independent with, S&P Global estimates, more than 70% of its oil and more than 80% of its natural gas produced through fracking. The process has become essential to the nation’s energy supply and can’t be eliminated. |
Houston Chronicle | Marissa Luck | Oct. 31, 2024Marathon Oil will lay off more than 500 people as result of its $22.5 billion merger with oil giant ConocoPhillips, the company said in a letter to the Texas Workforce Commission this week. |
Plastic News | Frank Esposito | Oct. 31, 2024For materials makers at Fakuma 2024, sustainability and electric vehicles were as popular as schnitzel and fries. Those were the major topics on the materials beat at the event, held Oct. 15-19 in Friedrichshafen, Germany. Materials firms talked about new projects and new or improved products in those end markets. |
Plastics News | Steve Toloken | Oct. 31. 2024Plastics companies should prepare for lawsuits and pressure from insurance companies around so-called "forever chemicals," with the courts and product liability potentially carrying more long-term risk for the industry than government regulations. |
Plastics News | Steve Toloken | Oct. 31, 2024A new lawsuit from Los Angeles County accuses PepsiCo Inc. and Coca-Cola Co. of deceiving the public about the recyclability of their plastic bottles and the environmental and health harms from the production and disposal of their plastics packaging. |
Houston Chronicle | Jonathan Diamond | Oct. 31, 2024A large solar farm north of Houston that received about $200 million in financing a year ago has come online. Recurrent Energy, a subsidiary of Canadian Solar, announced Thursday that Liberty Solar, a 134 megawatt project in Liberty County, about 50 miles northeast of Houston, had started operations. The project has contracts to feed electricity to corporate customers including Autodesk, Biogen, an electronics unit of Merck and Wayfair. |
Houston Chronicle | Rebekah F. Ward | Oct. 31, 2024More than two months before a hydrogen sulfide leak killed two workers and injured dozens more at the Pemex refinery in Deer Park, local officials confronted the company with concerns that it was being “less than transparent” about emergencies. |
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