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Exxon, Lyondell among suitors for Shell's US chemical assets, could fetch $8 billion, FT reportsShell is reportedly seeking to sell its U.S. chemical assets for up to eight billion dollars. Several major companies and a private equity ...
- Wyoming buried 1,124 wind turbine blades in a landfill, but a Missouri plant found a way to reuse 7,000 more old blades by turning them into cement feedstock and kiln fuel
Wyoming buried 1,124 wind turbine blades in a Casper landfill after cutting each into three pieces, but a Missouri plant near St Louis has ...
In 1974, a Spainish rancher imported 2,000 kg of American crayfish from Louisiana. 50 years later, it has become an invasion nobody could stopAn American red swamp crayfish invasion reshaped Spain's Guadalquivir River basin and Doñana National Park. This destructive biological inv...
Dorf Ketal taps global investors for $1.6 billion to fund Italmatch dealMumbai-based Dorf Ketal is in discussions to secure $1.6 bn for acquiring Italmatch Chemicals SpA. The funding will come from private credi...
Trump officials are vowing to end school desegregation orders. Some parents say they're still neededIn Concordia Parish, Louisiana, stark racial disparities persist between schools despite a decades-old desegregation order. The Justice Dep...
Milestone Moment: First commercial lithium production with new filtration tech begins in UtahInternational Battery Metals (IBAT) achieves breakthrough lithium production in Utah with a water-efficient DLE method. Producing 5,000 ton...
Western rare earths supply chain springs into gearGlobal supply chains are diversifying away from China for rare earths used in products like electric vehicles and wind turbines. Companies ...
Global negotiations on a treaty to end plastic pollution at critical phase in CanadaThe treaty talks began in Uruguay in December 2022 after Rwanda and Peru proposed the resolution that launched the process in March 2022.
Marathon Petroleum refinery in Louisiana's Garyville reports chemical storage plant leak, fire, evacuation underwayMarathon Petroleum refinery in Garyville town of Louisiana claims to have contained a fire and leak in the chemical storage tank of its ref...
Ida's fury hits US oil production, gasoline suppliesHurricane Ida knocked out at least 94% of the offshore Gulf of Mexico oil and gas production and caused "catastrophic" damage to Louisiana'...
Hurricane Ida lashes Louisiana, knocks out New Orleans powerPeople in Louisiana woke up to a monster storm after Ida's top winds grew by 45 mph (72 kph) in five hours as the hurricane moved through s...
Hurricane Ida rapidly intensifies into dangerous Category 4Ida was a Category 4 hurricane Sunday morning with maximum sustained winds of 130 mph. The storm was centered about 175 miles (280 kilomete...
Plastic prices hit record high to stoke inflation concernsEven before the freeze, the industry was struggling to rebound from back-to-back hurricanes last year, meaning the supply shortfalls will h...
Hurricane Laura makes landfall in Louisiana; kills 6 and causes widespread destruction in USLaura came ashore as a Category 4 storm and made landfall near Cameron in Lousiana, about 35 miles east of the Texas border, tearing off ro...
Hurricane Laura slams southwestern Louisiana, gutting buildings and killing at least oneA chemical plant caught fire in Laura's wake on Thursday morning in Westlake, Louisiana, 4 miles (6.4 km) west of Lake Charles, sending thi...
Hurricane Harvey: Massive clean up begins, 50 killedMore than 185,000 homes were damaged and 9,000 destroyed as 42,000 people remain in shelters amid overflowing rivers and reservoirs, Texas ...
Dorf Ketal Chemicals acquires US-based Flow-Chem TechnologiesThis is second acquisition by Mumbai-based chemical maker within two months after it announced acquisition of Thane-headquartered Filtra Ca...
- Human error: Man-made ecological disasters
The oil slick in the Gulf of Mexico is now about the size of Puerto Rico. It has already reached the marshes of Louisiana. As environmental...
- Gustav pounds US economy
Billions of dollars are at stake in other economic sectors in the US due to Hurricane Gustav.
- Gustav's possible economic hit is widespread
Billions of dollars are at stake in other economic sectors, as Hurricane Gustav takes aim at the Gulf Coast