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...Take the spread of per-and polyfluoroalkyl substances, better known as PFAS or forever chemicals....
...The warnings came after the UK government published a policy paper setting out how its approach to regulating hazardous chemicals would diverge from the EU’s REACH chemical safety regime, which no longer...
...“[Of] the few he had, I spilled some — and he barred me from the chemical shelf . . . as a result, I ended up inventing something that does not require any chemicals.”...
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...The HSE proposals follow the British government’s announcement that it would not match new EU restrictions on a number of potentially hazardous chemicals after establishing its own regulatory framework post-Brexit...
...Flowers grown amid hazardous waste. Not a symbol of hope, but something considerably more twisted. Because they only pretend to grow. They only pretend to live and change....
...make its large energy-intensive plants less dependent on fossil fuels, investing in green technologies and recycling solutions that are increasingly attractive as demand grows for less environmentally hazardous...
...He said only four of the 54 largest publicly traded chemical companies in the world had announced public phaseout plans of hazardous chemicals. These are Solvay, Indorama, Sabic and Yara....
...A coalition of asset managers is demanding the phaseout of hazardous “forever” chemicals, the latest move by institutional investors to expand their efforts to address environmental risks beyond climate...
...The US Department of Justice has sued Norfolk Southern after one of its trains transporting hazardous material derailed in a rural community in Ohio....
...Eleven of the 38 cars that derailed carried hazardous material, including vinyl chloride, a chemical used to make PVC pipes and plastic kitchenware that increases the risk of cancer....
...In addition, many chemical makers worry that a blanket consumer ban could make it harder to use hazardous chemicals in non-consumer processes....
...The investors, who also want companies to phase out hazardous chemicals used in plastics, plan to establish targets for each company, following up with letters and calls....
...The UK government has announced that it will not match new EU restrictions on a number of potentially hazardous chemicals, including on the “rubber crumbs” that are used to make artificial football pitches...
...Battery recycling, which typically involves smelting, chemical treatment or both, also has its own environmental impact and recyclers face a challenge in demonstrating that their output will remain both...
...It covers issues from waste and chemical use to human rights and labour practices....
...The children had been working with hazardous chemicals and “razor-sharp” equipment, including back saws, brisket saws and head splitters, officials said. At least three children had been injured....
...Waya says the site emits hazardous fumes that are eating away her tin roof, stinging her eyes — and could be doing far worse to her lungs and those of her neighbours....
...Martin Mulvihill, co-founder and general partner at SaferMade, a venture capital firm investing in companies and technologies that eliminate hazardous chemicals from consumer products, told me that “not...
...In more bad news, the agency also flagged health risks from light pollution and hazardous chemicals....
...The Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC) this month published findings that the majority of chemical recycling facilities in the US release dangerous amounts of hazardous pollutants into communities...
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