For a year now, the Chemical Safety Board, a small independent agency that investigates chemical spills and other disasters has faced elimination under President Trump’s budget cuts. That hasn’t stopped the board from taking on the Trump administration. The agency is now opposing an attempt to roll back new chemical disaster rules that were introduced…
For decades, a small program in the Environmental Protection Agency conducted the painstaking scientific work of assessing the toxicity of chemicals. The calculations done by scientists at IRIS, as it was commonly known, underpin vast numbers of chemical regulations, permits and other environmental rules in the U.S. and abroad. Now the Trump administration is suggesting…
Shorouk Express Europe’s chemical industry has reached a breaking point. The warning lights are no longer blinking — they are blazing. Unless Europe changes course immediately, we risk watching an entire industrial backbone, with the countless jobs it supports, slowly hollow out before our eyes. Consider the energy situation: this year European gas prices have…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 17 August 2025 01:18 (UTC +04:00) From January through July 2025, Azerbaijan produced chemical, pharmaceutical, rubber, and plastic goods worth 1.3 billion manat ($760 million). Pharmaceutical output rose 81.3 percent, chemicals 10.7 percent, and rubber/plastic goods 5.3 percent. Notable changes included a 37.4 percent rise in plastic rods and…
Shorouk Express Economy Materials 9 May 2025 21:17 (UTC +04:00) In the first quarter of 2025, Azerbaijan exported 90,700 tons of organic chemical compounds valued at $28.3 million, a 24.2 percent increase in value despite a 22.8 percent drop in volume compared to last year. Meanwhile, the country imported $10.3 million worth of…
Shorouk Express Get the free Morning Headlines email for news from our reporters across the world Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email Sign up to our free Morning Headlines email All of the UK’s rivers are now polluted with sewage with campaigners warning of a “toxic chemical soup” in our waters. Leading campaign…
Shorouk Express BAKU, Azerbaijan, March 23. Azerbaijan exported chemical industry products worth $62.8 million from January through February 2025, totaling 197,500 tons in production. Data obtained by Trend from the State Customs Committee indicates that this represents an increase of $14.5 million, or nearly 30 percent, in value compared to the same period last year,…
