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RTP Company buys carbon black compound supplier Polymer Partners
2015-08-06 22:04:34| Canadian Plastics Headlines
Thermoplastics supplier RTP Company has acquired Polymer Partners LLC, a manufacturer of black concentrates and specialty compounds. [Polymer Partners] will be an integral part of RTP Company in the production of custom thermoplastics, with a special focus on black masterbatches… The post RTP Company buys carbon black compound supplier Polymer Partners appeared first on Canadian Plastics.
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Carbon Emissions from U.S. Power Plants Hit 27-Year Low in April
2015-08-06 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Heat-trapping pollution from U.S. power plants hit a 27-year low in April, the Department of Energy announced Wednesday. A big factor was the long-term shift from coal to cleaner and cheaper natural gas, said Energy Department economist Allen McFarland. Outside experts also credit more renewable fuel use and energy efficiency. Carbon dioxide - from the burning of coal, oil and gas - is the chief greenhouse gas responsible for man-made global warming. "While good news for the environment, we certainly...
Artificial removal of atmospheric carbon dioxide may do little to save the oceans
2015-08-04 16:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
International Business: There is no plan B, U.S. President Barack Obama said on Monday, while unveiling an ambitious plan to reduce domestic greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the effects of climate change. Now, a new study -- which analyzed proposals to artificially suck out carbon dioxide from the atmosphere -- has backed Obamas assertion, and reaffirmed the need to act before its too late. Artificial carbon dioxide removal (CDR) from the atmosphere has been proposed to reduce both risks to marine life ......
Obama Clean Power Plan Prompts Carbon Tax Chatter
2015-08-04 15:06:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Journal: The big national cap-and-trade plan died on Capitol Hill five years ago, and it remains very much dead. A carbon tax--the perennial academic solution for curbing greenhouse-gas emissions--had even less traction in Congress and lives on mostly in think tanks. But President Obama's Environmental Protection Agency climate regulations for power plants, unveiled on Monday, may give those policies new life at the state level. In a change from the draft plan, the final EPA rule now explicitly says...
EPA opens door to consider Carbon Capture and Utilization as part of new Clean Power Plan; algae industry locks on
2015-08-04 12:55:33| Green Car Congress
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