The final list of countermeasures prepared by the Commission to respond to Trump’s steel and aluminum tariffs, which entered force on March 12, will not fully match their estimated impact of €26 billion on EU exports, Trade Commissioner Maroš Šefčovič said after the talks. That’s less than originally intended after EU countries lobbied to remove…
A look at Trump’s priority list from plastic straws to a new Air Force One – CBS News Watch CBS News President Trump pushed hard to revamp the federal workforce, including controversial layoffs. Willie James Inman reports on some of the other changes Mr. Trump is focusing on, like paper straws, pennies and the keys…
Human brains contain higher concentrations of microplastics than other organs, according to a new study, and the amount appears to be increasing over time. In the study, published Monday in the journal Nature Medicine, University of New Mexico Health Sciences researchers found microplastics in human brains have increased 50% over the past 8 years. They also…
At the height of the Los Angeles County wildfires, atmospheric concentrations of lead, a neurotoxin, reached 100 times average levels even miles from the flames, according to early detailed measurements obtained by The New York Times. Levels of chlorine, which is also toxic at low concentrations, reached 40 times the average. The spiking levels underscore…
Some Hong Kong restaurants have reported a 30 per cent rise in the cost of disposable utensils, while two suppliers of more environmentally friendly cutlery have said business is down, ahead of the end of a grace period for the ban on single-use plastics on Monday. A Post reporter visited Sham Shui Po on Sunday…
BPA is a colourless industrial chemical extensively used in the manufacturing of a wide range of plastics and resins. Credit: Artem Stepanov via Getty Images. China is likely to register the highest BPA capacity additions globally by 2028, or around 90% of the total additions from upcoming projects, according to GlobalData. GlobalData’s latest report, Bisphenol…