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November 08, 2024
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The Texas Tribune | Zach Despart & Renzo Downey | Nov. 6, 2024Republicans were poised to expand their majority in the Texas House on Tuesday evening, and appeared on track to flip two seats in historically Democratic districts as South Texas continued its dramatic shift to the right. |
The Texas Newsroom | Blaise Gainey & Adam Zuvanich | Nov. 6, 2024Texas Republicans reaffirmed their overwhelming control at the statehouse in Tuesday’s election, but a crop of fresh Republican faces in the Texas House could have big implications for the balance of power in the legislature, especially when it comes to the state’s ongoing battle over school vouchers. |
Texas Tribune | Kayla Guo | Nov. 6, 2024Republicans swept Texas’ state appellate courts in Tuesday’s election, with Republican judges knocking out Democrats in 25 out of 26 contested races.
While the red wave that washed over the state’s courts of appeals reflected the GOP’s broader strength in races up and down the ballot, it wasn’t immediately clear that the election results portended a vast difference in the courts’ decisions. |
Plastics News | Steve Toloken | Nov. 6, 2024A second Donald Trump administration seems certain to bring changes to Washington on environmental and trade policy that impact the plastics industry. The most immediate may be how the U.S. approaches the global plastics treaty, which has its fifth and final scheduled negotiating session in late November in South Korea. Beyond that, Trump's appointees could put forward big policy changes on chemical recycling, single-use plastics procurement and other areas at key agencies. |
ICIS | Al Greenwood | Nov. 6, 2024Chemical trade groups in the US urged President-Elect Donald Trump to pursue policies that would support more domestic production and provide regulatory certainty. “Chemistry enables affordable housing, reliable infrastructure and effective, modern healthcare technologies. It is not only the driving force behind everyday products like smartphones and computers, but it is also what helps keep our nation safe and less dependent on foreign countries,” the American Chemistry Council (ACC) said in a statement congratulating Trump on his victory. |
E&E Greenwire | Miranda Willson, Ellie Borst | Nov. 6, 2024Donald Trump’s victory is raising new questions about how Robert F. Kennedy Jr. could influence his next administration on environmental issues, from chemicals to drinking water. Trump doubled down Wednesday on allowing Kennedy to pursue his "Make America Healthy Again" agenda, which pledges to address chronic disease and “environmental degradation” by reducing harmful chemicals in food, as well as changing regulations for pharmaceuticals and pesticides. |
ICIS | Al Greenwood | Nov. 6, 2024US President-Elect Donald Trump has pledged to impose more tariffs, lower corporate taxes and lighten companies’ regulatory burden, a continuation of what US chemical producers saw during his first term of office in 2016-2020. |
Doug Lewin | Nov. 4, 2024Late last week, ERCOT released its Monthly Outlook of Resource Adequacy. It forecasts that if Texas experienced another Winter Storm Elliott — the freeze that hit Texas two years ago — there would be a 50% probability of rolling outages. |
Houston Chronicle | Tanya Babbar | Nov. 7, 2024The Port of Houston Authority received a $3 million grant through the Environmental Project Agency's Clean Ports program as part of President Joe Biden and Vice President Kamala Harris’ Investing in America agenda. |
Recycling Today | Tess Kazdin | Nov. 4, 2024It’s no secret that when it comes to household-generated paper and plastics recycling, the U.S. has a recovery problem. Recent reports, including those published by The Recycling Partnership (TRP) and the U.S. Department of Energy’s National Renewable Energy Laboratory (NREL), have revealed gaps in packaging recovery, highlighting missed economic opportunity and room for improvement across all material types. |
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 | Sarah Kominek | Nov. 4, 2024The medical device industry faces unique challenges as PFAS begins to face regulation in the U.S. and Europe despite exceptions for medical products in most phase-out requirements. So far, regulation of the chemical class has been a "tangled web" due to the nature of the definition of PFAS, said Shalene Thomas, senior emerging contaminants program manager at nonprofit R&D organization Battelle. |
BNA Environment & Energy Report | Pat Rizzuto | Nov. 4, 2024The US is taking so long to decide whether it will pay plaintiffs for costs they’ve spent controlling PFAS released by federal facilities that plaintiffs may want to explore whether some additional legal filings could resolve roadblocks, a judge said. |
Plastics News | Steve Toloken | Nov. 5, 2024Companies making PFAS-free alternative products for the plastics industry see change coming quickly. As an example, Robert Sherman, a U.S.-based researcher for German additive maker Baerlocher GmbH, told a recent conference that the switch away from per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances to alternative chemicals in the manufacturing process is, at times, happening rapidly. |
KTRK | Nov. 5, 2024Another lawsuit was filed concerning the deadly chemical leak in October at the Pemex refinery in Deer Park. On Oct. 10, 35 people were injured and two killed. The new lawsuit is for the death of 28-year-old Jose Perez, who lost his life last month while working as a contractor at the Pemex facility. |
BNA Environment & Energy Report | Drew Hutchinson | Nov. 4, 2024ExxonMobil Corp. is attempting to move California’s plastics lawsuit to federal court, saying the case involves navigable waters and actions taken under the federal government’s direction. California’s recent lawsuit, which accused the company of worsening a global plastics pollution crisis, should land in the US District Court for the Northern District of California because that venue has the authority to handle cases about acts on navigable waters, ExxonMobil wrote in a Nov. 1 removal notice. |
BIC Magazine | Reuters | Nov. 4, 2024Chemical maker LyondellBasell Industries has announced a plan to permanently shutter its 263,776 barrel-per-day Houston oil refinery in the first quarter of 2025. The planned closing marks the latest in a wave of U.S. refinery closures as motor fuel demand is expected to peak this decade and decline under pressure from renewable fuels and electric vehicles. |
Powder & Bulk Solids | Kristen Kazarian | Nov. 5, 2024The American Chemistry Council (ACC) launched the Economic Elements of Chemistry (EEC), which provides a comprehensive look at the industry’s contributions to the US and global economies. The new online tool replaces the print version of the Guide to the Business of Chemistry. It has an interactive format featuring dynamic graphs and charts that users can engage with to display useful data and statistics. Thanks to the new digital format readers can explore data insights and trends in a more immersive way. |
Chemical Processing | Jonathan Katz | Nov. 5, 2024Braskem S.A. said Nov. 5 Roberto Bischoff will step down as CEO and be replaced by Roberto Prisco Paraiso Ramos. Bischoff, who has led the company for two years, will leave his position on Nov. 30. Novonor, Braskem’s controlling shareholder, appointed Ramos to assume the CEO position. |
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