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The U.S. chemical industry has seen a new trend emerge on the regulatory front in recent years--the environmental initiatives of 'big box' retailers and other downstream customers have become de [...]

Are you ready? REACH (Registration, Evaluation, Authorisation and Restriction of Chemicals) requires that companies in the EU making or importing more than one ton of a chemical substance per year [...]

New Jersey chemical makers say they are monitoring changes that the state government, headed by newly elected Governor Jon Corzine (D.), has proposed regarding plant security and environmental issues. As [...]

ACC is introducing a series of other changes to the Responsible Care program this year in addition to the new security code. The changes are intended to improve public perceptions [...]

The past year has brought a tidal wave of new thinking, mandates, deadlines, and dialogues to the Responsible Care initiative, especially in security measures against terrorist threats. ACC's board of [...]

How can you get $100,000 worth of management consulting value for about a $15,000 investment? Order a CMA-led management systems verification (MSV) for your Responsible Care program, says Velsicol Chemical [...]

If a theme can be found in 1994 in the diversified arena of fine chemicals, it is the gravitation toward more advanced chemistry. Coping with new vulnerability in the form [...]

Grupo Cydsa (Monterrey), one of Mexico's largest domestic chemical producers, with sales of $850 million/year, is alos emerging as one of the most aggressive in improving environmental performance. During the [...]

For the slew of international environmental companies eagerly looking to clean up on Mexico's severe pollution problems, the country is a boom market waiting to happen. But despite being bolstered [...]

Fueled by tough new government regulatins and public desire for a cleaner environment, demand for environmental services and consulting in Mexico is expected to boom during the next few years. [...]

Success of the process safety code of Responsible Care is perhaps one of the trickiest things to measure. Although there may be demonstration of continuous improvement, it takes only one [...]

ADVISORY PANELS RESHAPE COMMUNITY RELATIONS In terms of its effect on the chemical industry, the Responsible Care program is as unproven as a newborn blinking its eyes in the light [...]

PRODUCT STEWARDSHIP: EXPLORING THE |HOW-TO' CMA and the code drafting committee are coming into the homestretch on the product stewardship code, mostly fine-tuning its language and completing the resource guide [...]

In November 1990 Peter M. Sandman, director of the environmental communication research program at Rutgers University (New Brunswick, NJ), gave a now-famous speech about public skepticism of the chemical industry's [...]

Du Pont, (Wilmington, DE) the largest chemical firm in the U.S., is concerned about what people think when they put together the ideas of 'a chemical company' and 'the environment.' [...]

The U.S. regulatory landscape will change dramatically next year as Democrats take control of both the White House and Congress for the first time since 1994. Key policy decisions facing [...]

Officials say New Jersey's Brownfields redevelopment program has played a crucial role in revitalizing cities such as Camden and Newark. By providing tax and other incentives to promote the sale [...]

Every state has a waste minimization program and some form of technological outreach; many states also have a formal 'pollution prevention' program, and several also have a formal 'technical assistance [...]

CMA board approval of responsible Care Management Systems Verification (MSV) earlier this year is a critical step for the U.S. chemical industry, which is trying to catch up with other [...]

The 1994 toxics release inventory (TRI), scheduled to be released this week by EPA, will be the last before an aggressive expansion mapped out by EPA Administrator Carol Browner. By [...]

With the chemical industry plowing an increasing slice of its annual invest- ment into fast-growing, newly developing countries, corporate managers are working to create new ways to guarantee the environment, [...]

In europe, the status of the draft environmental standard ISO 14000 is complicated by the European Union's Eco-Management and Audit Scheme (Emas), which started up in April and is more [...]

With the imminent publication of the International Organization for Standardization's (ISO; Geneva) 14000 standard series for environmental management, most chemical companies are starting work on fitting a new regime onto [...]

Earlier this month, governor Whitman signed New Jersey's Title V air permitting program into law--the end result of a year and a half of meetings between the New Jersey Department [...]

As chemical manufacturers up-grade their information technology (IT) systems, many say they are paying special attention to software that enables better management of environment, health, and safety (EHS) efforts. Born [...]

By this time next year, ISO 14000 standards for environmental management will be added to the mix of Responsible Care, EPA programs, and European standards. As with ISO 9000, the [...]

The deadly cloud of methyl isocyanate (MIC) gas that leaked from a Union Carbide plant in Bhopal, India 10 years ago still casts a shadow over the chemical industry. The [...]

The rubber is starting to meet the road. After years of negotiating about the shape of regulations in development, industry is at the implementation stage of the Clean Air Act [...]

Europe is preparing for the implementation of the European Eco- Management and Audit Scheme (EMAS) in May 1995. The scheme will catapult firms from the familiar realms of quality management [...]

Aware that millions of dollars in environmental improvements lie ahead of them, many North American paper companies say they are waiting for the Environmental Protection Agency's finalized rules on air [...]

In spite of all the economic pressures on businesses at the moment, European companies are still forging ahead with Responsible Care, says Louis Jourdan, senior director/technical affairs for the European [...]

Facing tough government regulation and intense international scrutiny, Mexico's chemical producers are attempting a radical environmental transformation. And with the industry already in an extensive restructuring because of the country's [...]

State chemical industry councils (CICs) are becoming a growing force in spreading the word about Responsible Care. Thirteen of the 19 CICs have already signed on as partners in Responsible [...]

The debate over the health and environmental effects of chlorine reached a crescendo late last month. An executive order on recycling omitted a much talked-about ban on U.S. government purchases [...]

New incineration policy added to the mix. Following the failure of the last Congress to reauthorize the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), the hazardous waste focus has shifted from [...]

With the U.S. chemical industry still spewing about 850 million lbs/year of toxic pollutants into the air, land, and water, the effort to develop environmentally cleaner process technologies-and pay for [...]

Quality organizations are breaking new ground with the development of international standards for environmental management. These promise to provide the platform for chemical companies wanting to establish their environmental credibility [...]

Progress varies by company and culture How do chief executive of Western companies, from their plush offices, keep tabs on what happens at chemical plants in developing countries? Many point [...]

Outside reviews: Key to credibility Even the motto 'Don't trust us, track us' recognizes that verification of Responsible Care achievements by outside parties is the key to credibility. While Toxics [...]

In the course of recent efforts to reauthorize the Resource Conservation and Recovery Act (RCRA), an amendment to greatly expand the information that industry must report to the public and [...]

For General Chemical (Parsippany, NJ), implementing Responsibe Care is largely a story of a small-to-medium-size chemical firm coordinating separate efforts in the U.S. and Canada. The same is true for [...]

Public disclosure of the releases of a wide range of compounds in the federal Toxics Release Inventory (TRI)--published initially in 1989--has put a glaring spotlight on the industry's pollution prevention [...]

'Don't trust us, track us' is a noble sentiment. But how do you shadows chemical operations and judge whether Responsible Care is more than a public relations exercise? Obviously, getting [...]

In an attempt to get the Responsible Care initiative to encompass the entire $285-billion/year U.S. chemical industry and to bring in key server industries like transportation, a huge network is [...]

The environmental services industry has enjoyed un-checked growth for the past decade. And despite recent evidence in 1991 that sectors of the business such as hazardous waste clean-up are susceptible [...]

MEXICO'S RESPONSABILIDAD INTEGRAL: A HIGH-STAKE MOVE The Asociacion de la Industria Quimica's (ANIQ; Mexico City) unanimous Oct. 23 vote to adopt Responsabilidad Integral - Responsible Care - was a high-stakes [...]

QUANTUM Spurred by Responsible Care's call for continuous, long-term improvements, Quantum Chemical's USI Division (Cincinnati) has set a series of goals to cut air emissions and hazardous waste generation over [...]

ROHM AND HAAS Rohm and Haas (Philadelphia) formed its first community advisory panel five years ago, when the company grew dissatisfied with the old model of community relations - donations [...]

IMPLEMENTATION: BIG ISSUE FOR SMALL FIRMS Small- to medium-size companies are committed to implementing Responsible Care, calling it the right thing to do. But as the Synthetic Organic Chemical Manufacturers [...]

Key issues for companies already working to meet proposed Clean Air Act 1990 Amendment rules include controlling the act's list of 189 hazardous air pollutants and getting permits to operate [...]