Recently I sat down virtually with professional chemical process engineer Paul Martin of Spitfire Research on my podcast Redefining Energy – Tech to discuss how much industrial heat can be replaced with electrical heat technologies (tl’dr: virtually all of it directly). In the theme of providing transcripts of presentations I’m … [continued]
In christening a new office of environmental justice, Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan proclaimed Saturday that “underserved and overburdened communities are at the forefront of our work.” A stern test of that proclamation began just two days later. On Monday, the EPA held the first of three virtual listening sessions on the … [continued]
A rather arcane and largely discredited chemical industry-sponsored publication is still circulating, zombie-like, at the Trump Administration’s EPA science meetings, despite being basically dead among experts.
Millions of people will soon be safer from the thousands of dangerous chemical facilities that sit in flood-prone areas.
President Trump has nominated Nancy Beck, a former chemical industry official, to head the Consumer Product Safety Commission (CPSC), an independent federal agency tasked with protecting the public from the same toxic chemicals Beck has long defended, alongside more than 15,000 other regulated products.
A new report from CDP analyzes 22 of the largest global chemical companies, with a total market capitalization of $626 billion and responsible for a quarter of all emissions of the sector at 276 million metric tonnes of CO2 emissions per year.
