Sentences with phrase «u.s. chemical industry»

«Thanks to abundant supplies of natural gas, the U.S. chemical industry is investing in new facilities and expanded production capacity, which tends to attract downstream industries that rely on petrochemical products.

«Thanks to abundant supplies of natural gas, the U.S. chemical industry is investing in new facilities and expanded production capacity, which tends to attract downstream industries that rely on petrochemical products,» the American Chemistry Council's President and CEO, Cal Dooley, said in a January press release.

The U.S. chemical industry is riding a global wave of growth as the world's major economies experience an upswing for the first time in a decade.

«Thanks to abundant supplies of natural gas, the U.S. chemical industry is investing in new facilities and expanded production capacity, which tends to attract downstream industries that rely on petrochemical products.

Ethane, a natural gas liquid, is the U.S. chemical industry's main feedstock.

In 2017, Mr. Dooley led industry efforts in helping secure the historic «Tax Cuts and Jobs Act» that included key provisions that improve and support a vibrant and competitive U.S. chemical industry and manufacturing sector.

Employment in the U.S. chemical industry has been sliding in recent years.

The U.S. chemicals industry was the country's leading exporter in 2017, with $ 181 billion in exports, according to ACC analysis.

U.S. chemicals industry would incur double damage due to loss of key chemical export markets and reduced export demand for products made with chemicals.

Not exact matches

On Wednesday, agricultural and chemicals company Monsanto (MON) is reports second - quarter figures that were likely hurt by the strong U.S. dollar as well as industry - wide price cutting on seeds.

When concerns over exposure to U.S. sub - prime mortgages caused the market for these complex investments to collapse last summer, the 60 - year - old chemical industry manager was not even notified anything was amiss.

According to the Chemical Industry Association of Canada, Canada exported $ 106 - million worth of methanol in 2014, but mainly to U.S. markets.

«BPA has been used in the U.S. since the 1950s, but because of a growing concern from consumers regarding its safety, the chemical was phased out of use by the industry,» says Dr. Whitney Christian, a health scientist for Cardno ChemRisk.

The findings come as the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency faces opposition from the pesticide industry after expanding its Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program, which requires testing of about 200 chemicals found in food and drinking water to see if they interfere with estrogen, androgens or thyroid hormones.

The amendment to the Montreal Protocol phasing down heat - trapping hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), which was adopted in the early hours of Saturday in the Rwandan capital of Kigali, is in part the result of 7 1/2 years of lobbying and maneuvering by the Obama administration, environmental advocacy community and U.S. industry bent on using the ozone treaty to phase down the climate - forcing chemicals.

BASF Corporation, General Electric Company, NanoFilm, Ltd., and PPG Industries are the latest chemical companies to provide data to the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) as part of an effort to determine whether nanosize particles they use in products pose health hazards.

The U.S. and European researchers, who work for government and industry, were part of a group that advises policymakers on the Montreal Protocol, the 1987 pact that curbed the use of chemicals that harm the ozone layer.

The foundation is headed by Len Blavatnik, a major American and British entrepreneur and philanthropist and the founder and Chairman of Access Industries, a privately - held U.S. industrial group with global strategic interests in natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, real estate, and venture capital.

Mr. Blavatnik is the founder and Chairman of Access Industries, a privately - held U.S. industrial group with global interests in natural resources and chemicals, media and telecommunications, real estate, technology, and e-commerce.

His leadership in this arena initiative has been critical to ensuring that federal and state policymakers understand the link between domestic shale gas, the chemical industry and growth in America's manufacturing sector that will drive U.S. competitiveness, boost exports, and create new, high - paying jobs.

The American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Center for Endocrine Screening and Testing represents a premier scientific, technical, and advocacy resource for the chemical industry on endocrine issues, particularly in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).

However, because of U.S. patent law which prevents patenting a bioidentical hormone chemical structure, the drug industry created chemically altered hormones which could be patented and sold at higher profit margins.

(Never mind that the tobacco industry was promoted and subsidized by the U.S. government; that scientific experts were often less likely than the general public to believe smoking makes you sick; and that the environmentalist movement, with its claims that nearly all artificial chemicals cause disease, actually delayed recognition of the role of smoking in promoting disease.)

Because energy innovation is lowering production costs, IHS expects energy - intensive industries such as chemicals, metals, food and refining to outperform the U.S. economy as a whole through 2025.

The first in a series of catastrophic storms, Harvey struck the heart of the U.S. petrochemical industry, leading to widespread flooding of oil and gas infrastructure, toxic chemical spills and adverse short -LSB-...]

The U.S. oil and gas industry was declining until the U.S. government stopped regulating the dumping of toxic chemicals.

The American Chemistry Council's (ACC) Center for Endocrine Screening and Testing represents a premier scientific, technical, and advocacy resource for the chemical industry on endocrine issues, particularly in the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) Endocrine Disruptor Screening Program (EDSP).

In her book, Global Spin, author Sharon Beder noted that past Bonner clients have included tobacco companies Philip Morris and U.S. Tobacco Co.; the Pharmaceutical Manufacturers Association; the utility trade group Edison Electric Institute; military contractor McDonnell Douglas; nuclear industry and military services giant Westinghouse; chemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in thechemical companies Monsanto and Dow Chemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in theChemical; and the major Detroit auto companies Chrysler, Ford and General Motors (who hired Bonner to help derail Congressional efforts to raise fuel efficiency standards back in the 1990s).

Mr. Nelson is a registered U.S. patent attorney whose practice focuses on intellectual property litigation, enforcement, prosecution, licensing, agreements, and client - counseling in a wide range of industries and technologies, including energy, chemical, oil & gas, subsea, medical devices, and computer software and hardware.

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Ranked nationally by U.S. News — Best Lawyers in intellectual property litigation, the group handles complex and high - profile cases spanning a range of industries, including technology, life sciences, fashion, entertainment and sports, and chemical, among others.

It has some of the wealthiest communities in the nation, while others are quite the opposite; Hartford, for example is one of the 10 communities with the lowest per capita incomes in the U.S. Heavy industry is a key driver of the Connecticut economy, with production of transportation equipment, especially helicopters, aircraft parts, and nuclear submarines; heavy industrial machinery and electrical equipment; military weaponry; fabricated metal products; chemical and pharmaceutical products; and scientific instruments.

This includes: Minerals & Metals, Private / Commercial, Construction, Chemical, Refinery, DOE / DOT facilities, U.S. Government, and Power industry.

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