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- Dooley: Senate emissions bill is "a step backwards"
American Chemistry Council chief executive Cal Dooley opened a press conference held Monday by the American Materials Manufacturing Alliance to discuss concerns with an emissions bill to be debated this week by the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee. "We had hoped when this legislation moved to the Senate that we would see further accommodations that would assure that we could protect the high-paying manufacturing jobs that are part of our industry," said Dooley, who added the draft bill is "a step backwards." The USGlass News Network
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Clorox aims to eliminate reliance on chlorine: To avoid transporting chlorine to its U.S. factories by rail, Clorox said, it will instead use a higher concentration of sodium hypochlorite to make its high-strength bleach. "By transitioning to a new manufacturing process now, that allows us to stay head of regulations and potentially avoid costs," said company spokesman Dan Staublin. Google/The Associated Press
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- Small chemical maker plans $5 million expansion
Equinox Chemicals is planning a $5 million expansion program, including an increase in its workforce, amid rising demand for its services. Despite the recession, the company says, many of its U.S. customers are opting to have their chemicals made domestically instead of overseas. WALB-TV (Albany, Ga.)
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- Plastic-based fibers take turn on Los Angeles runway
The American Chemistry Council's "Plastics Make it Possible" presented nine runway shows during Gen Art and Rock Fashion at Los Angeles Fashion Week. The program challenged designers to create fashion looks from fabrics that include chiffon, rayon, spandex and microfiber. HollywoodToday.net
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- ACC rebuts consumer magazine's assertion about BPA
Traces of bisphenol A were found in almost all canned foods tested by Consumer Reports magazine, and the levels of the chemical were comparable to those found to cause health problems in a number of animal studies. The American Chemistry Council, however, criticized the findings for being at odds with those from global regulatory agencies, including the European Food Safety Authority and Health Canada. Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
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- Houston set to meet EPA's air quality standards
Houston could meet the federal smog standards for the first time if the eight-county region can maintain its levels until the end of smog season. "The news is good," but the Environmental Protection Agency will scrutinize the preliminary data in the coming months, a spokesman for the agency said. Houston Chronicle
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- Senate committee to tackle climate measure despite boycott threats
Democrats on the Senate's Environment and Public Works Committee said they would proceed with discussing climate legislation today despite a planned boycott by some Republicans seeking further analysis of the measure. Sen. Barbara Boxer, D-Calif., who heads the panel, aims to get the committee's approval for the bill before an international global-warming summit in Copenhagen that will be held in December. Reuters
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- U.N., EU urge U.S. to explain planned greenhouse-gas emissions cuts
The U.S. should present its carbon-reduction targets before a global-warming deal is achieved at next month's meeting in Copenhagen, said officials with the U.N. and European Union. U.S. envoys have yet to introduce reduction goals in nearly two years of discussions, saying that they await the passage of an energy-and-climate measure in Congress before taking action. "I do not think that the international community will accept an instrument that lacks clarity on what the U.S. will do to reduce its emissions," said Yvo de Boer, executive secretary of the U.N. Framework Convention on Climate Change. Bloomberg
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- Algae-based plastic could reduce reliance on oil
California-based Cereplast says the technology it has developed to turn algae into bioplastics could replace at least half of the petroleum used to make plastic resins. "Algae-based resins represent an outstanding opportunity for companies across the plastic supply chain to become more environmentally sustainable and reduce the industry's reliance on oil," says Cereplast CEO Frederic Scheer. Reuters/Cleantechnica
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- Rorick: IST will increase, shift risk to transit
Robin Rorick, API's director of marine and security, says the House seems determined to "fix" security for chemical, agricultural and energy facilities when the federal system protecting them is not broken. The chemicals involved in Inherently Safer Technology already are regulated by federal and state agencies, and mandating their substitution will increase refinery costs, Rorick writes n this letter to the editor. The Hill
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