Drug cartels are banking on the fact that U.S. chemical companies face very few legal risks, Bloomberg Businessweek has reported. Taminco, one such chemical company, is said to have illegally sold enough monomethylamine (MMA) for Mexican narcos to make $3.2 billion worth of methamphetamine.
The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals delivered a stinging rebuke to the EPA this week, ruling its policy on dicamba herbicides was deeply flawed.
My neighbor is an NPR junkie and always has the radio on. Earlier this evening when I was visiting her, I listened in on their podcast. What grabbed my attention were the words “toxic chemical” and “found in 99% of humans’ blood.”
Maverick pneumatic solar tracker maker Sunfolding has amassed a pipeline of 60 megawatts for the first quarter of 2019, following its 2018 commercial rollout, says Matthew Schneider, the vice president of product at the San Francisco-based company. Sunfolding also is supplying its first delivery contract for a utility-scale photovoltaic array, a 39 MW project in California, using the company’s motor-less T29 single-axis design.
The ancient air bellows has been repurposed once again, to drive solar tracker arrays created by Sunfolding, of San Francisco, in a 39 megawatt installation at an undisclosed California location. The cost-saving design has attracted the attention of the ARPA-e program, DOE’s SunShot program, and several venture capitalists.
The EPA has delayed releasing study results showing that 3M knew it was producing toxic chemicals.
Two corporate giants giants have teamed up for a “breakthrough” bioplastic venture, knocking yet another pin out from the fossil industry lobbying machine.
A fuzzy yellow material best known as the key ingredient in bulletproof vests could add more energy storage power to lithium-ion batteries.
The future of the silicon thin-film market is looking bleak, according to a new report from EnergyTrend, a research division of TrendForce. After the (relatively) recent announcement from DuPont that it was planning to terminate its silicon thin-film operations, questions have certainly begun to come up about how much longer … [continued]
Originally published on Climate Progress. By Jeff Spross It turns out the White House and major American businesses may be converging on how to assess the damage greenhouse gas emissions do to the global climate. According to a new report by the environmental data company CDP, in 2013 at least 29 companies … [continued]
