It’s been more than a year since Congress passed landmark legislation reforming and updating the Toxic Substances Control Act (TSCA), the 1976 law governing the U.S. chemical industry. Just getting it passed and...
Here’s a quiz for you: What line of business is ExxonMobil in? The answer’s not as simple as one might think. We’re one of the world’s largest oil and natural gas producers, of course. And ExxonMobil’s...
Low prices, brand names and free samples are probably what most of us look for when we’re filling up the cart at the grocery store. But when was the last time that you stopped to think about how your food is...
The United States is experiencing a manufacturing boom led by the petrochemical industry, as I recently noted. More than $160 billion of chemicals investment has been announced, much of it along the Gulf Coast,...
Last week, I wrote about a potential innovation in plastics manufacturing. This announcement deserves additional context to communicate what the breakthrough could mean to consumers, the economy, and the...
For ExxonMobil, harnessing trash provides an unorthodox way to help power an energy-efficient manufacturing facility. They say beauty is in the eye of the beholder, but you would be hard-pressed to find people who...
Yesterday brought good news from the nation’s capital, a place that nearly everyone agrees could use much more bipartisan cooperation. President Obama signed legislation reforming and updating the Toxic...
The first thing you might notice as you approach ExxonMobil’s Baytown Petrochemical Complex is the billowing plume of water vapor rising from the facility. What you might not realize is just how far steam and...
For years automakers labored to meet the Corporate Average Fuel Economy (CAFE) standards, regulations first set in place by Congress in the 1970s to improve the fuel efficiency of vehicles on American roads....
