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GASIFICATION
BY PHILIP FINE
THE USA’S Environmental Protection Agency is promoting the production of chemical gases from waste materials by reclassifying these currently "hazardous" toxins and allowing them to be used in gasification programmes, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into a so-called syngas.…
SYNGAS
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICA’S Environmental Protection Agency is looking to add certain waste materials, now classified as hazardous, to their programme promoting alternative fuels.
The EPA is trying to expand the country’s use of gasification, a process that puts materials under high temperatures to convert them into synthetic gas.…
GASIFICATION
BY PHILIP FINE
AN AMERICAN agency has proposed the addition of certain hazardous waste materials to its country’s fledgling gasification programme. The Environmental Protection Agency estimates that up to seven to 10 million tons of hazardous byproducts from the petroleum refining industry could be put under high temperatures and converted into gas.…
ARCTIC REFUGE
BY PHILIP FINE
CARIBOU birthing will not be impaired if oil drilling is limited to the northwest portion of the oil-rich Arctic National Wildlife Refuge, according to a new study by the US Geological Survey. The oil industry applauds the new scientific proof but critics dismissed the study as too narrowly focused.…
CORRUGATION DEAL
BY PHILIP FINE
US and European corrugated container industries have announced a harmonisation of their two standards. America’s Fibre Box Association (FBA) and the European Federation of Corrugated Board Manufacturers (FEFCO) have developed a standard called the Corrugated Common Footprint. It was developed so that box makers could provide trays that perform well throughout the supply chain.…
ROLLOVER TESTS
BY PHILIP FINE
THE US Department of Transportation’s National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA), has reissued a cautionary warning to users of 15-seat vans, popular for groups, such as sports teams, going on outings, following the release of new in-house research about rollovers.…
APPALACHIAN BASIN
BY PHILIP FINE
THE UNITED States’ Appalachian Basin has come up strong in a recently released digitised mapping assessment of US coal regions. Of the 93 billion short tons of the basin’s original coal reserves, about 66 billion short tons remain.…
TYSON FOODS
BY PHILIP FINE
AN INFLUENTIAL environmental group is taking the world’s largest poultry company to court for allegedly failing to quell noxious releases emanating from its contracted farmers’ properties. The Sierra Club alleges that Kentucky-based Tyson Foods failed to report releases of ammonia at four of its suppliers’ chicken houses.…
CONAGRA
BY PHILIP FINE
CONAGRA Foods Inc is to sell its red-meat business in the United States and Australia, according to the US Cattle Buyers Weekly. The multinational, with sales of US$27 billion a year, will sell processing operations, cattle feeding operations and Australia Meat Holdings, says the newsletter.…
US SENATE SUBSIDIES
BY PHILIP FINE
AMERICAN food manufacturers will in the long term see a fall in prices if a US$45.1 billion US farm bill becomes law next week, says the European Commission, but not before world markets are glutted with foods. The bill calls for an increase in crop and dairy subsidies to farmers and for mandatory country-of-origin labeling for meat, fruit, vegetables, fish and peanuts.…