Chemical Watch News and Insight Podcast

In this episode of the Chemical Watch news podcast business editor Leigh Stringer, North America managing editor Terry Hyland and science editor Andrew Turley join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss three current stories.

In this episode of the Chemical Watch news podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined from Brussels by emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey, from Cambridge, UK by Europe desk editor Luke Buxton and from Washington DC by North America managing editor Terry Hyland.

In this week's episode of the Chemical Watch news podcast North America managing editor Terry Hyland, science editor Andrew Turley and Asia editor David Macfarlane join host, business editor Leigh Stringer to discuss a selection of the week's biggest stories.

In this edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast, global managing editor, Kate Lowe, is joined by North America managing editor Terry Hyland, Europe reporter Kathryn Carlson and global business editor, Leigh Stringer.

In this edition of the Chemical Watch podcast, North America managing editor Terry Hyland, Europe reporter Kathryn Carlson and science editor Andrew Turley join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss three developments.

After a drawn out election week in the US, all eyes are on the White House to see how President Elect Joe Biden might use his executive powers to push ahead with his agenda through executive orders – a tool frequently utilised by Presidents Trump and Obama – as well as regulatory actions via federal agencies like the EPA. And while the president-elect has laid out some of his priorities so far, Co...

In this edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast, deputy editor Nick Hazlewood discusses three of the week's biggest news stories with Terry Hyland, managing editor of our North America desk, Asia desk, editor David Macfarlane, and our UN/emerging markets reporter, Ginger Hervey.

In this edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined by Asia reporter Ellen Daliday, Asia desk editor David Macfarlane and global business editor, Leigh Stringer. On the agenda for this episode is Vietnam’s decision to reopen the window to nominate chemicals for inclusion in the country’s first draft national inventory until 15th of April next year. We als...

In this special edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast on the EU chemicals strategy for sustainability, editorial director Geraint Roberts, talks to Cristina de Avila, head of unit, sustainable chemicals, at DG Environment, Sylvie Lemoine, Cefic executive director of product stewardship and Tatiana Santos of the European Environmental Bureau about the strategy's implications.

In this edition of the Chemical Watch news podcast editorial director Geraint Roberts, Asia reporter Ellen Daliday and North America managing editor Terry Hyland join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss three of the week's biggest news stories. The episode begins with a look at the European Commission’s keenly awaited chemicals strategy for sustainability, which was published on the 14 Oct...

In this edition of the Chemical Watch Podcast editorial director Geraint Roberts, North America managing editor Terry Hyland and emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss three stories from the week. Firstly we discuss the European Commission's chemicals strategy for sustainability, due to be published this week, which has been the subject of fierce d...

In this edition of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined by Europe reporter Kathryn Carlson, Asia reporter Ellen Daliday and emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey to discuss three big topics from the week's news. Firstly, we take a look at the intervention last week by environment ministers from ten European countries in the debate over Europe’s chemicals strateg...

In this edition of the Chemical Watch Podcast, news editor Charlotte Niemiec, North America managing editor Terry Hyland, and Asia desk editor David Macfarlane join global managing editor Kate Lowe to discuss three stories from the week. Firstly, we take a look at recent developments in India where the latest draft of the country’s upcoming chemicals law has been circulated to industry groups, rev...

In this edition of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined by Europe correspondent Clelia Oziel, business editor Leigh Stringer, and global and emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey to discuss the issues behind three recent chemicals management stories.  We start in Europe where the American Chemistry Council has joined EU industry groups in urging the Europea...

In this edition of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined from Washington DC by North America reporter Jon Kelvey, from Brussels by Europe reporter Kathryn Carlson, and from London by Asia reporter Ellen Daliday. The podcast starts in the US, where a steady trickle of states have put forward bills to restrict the use in food packaging of per- and polyfluoroalkyl sub...

In this week's episode, North America reporter Jon Kelvey talks about the significance of a bill which has been passed in California restricting more than a dozen substances from cosmetic products and banning the manufacture or sale of cosmetics containing those substances from January 2025. Also on the podcast, global managing editor, Kate Lowe, is joined by Europe correspondent Clelia Oziel who...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, our North America managing editor Terry Hyland talks about work being carried out by electronics association IPC to better understand the use of per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) within the electronics sector; an investigation that has been sparked by increasing regulation of PFASs around the globe. Also on the podcast, global managin...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, North America managing editor Terry Hyland talks about the upturn in requests to the US EPA to consider exempting certain ‘critical uses’ from potential regulatory activity under TSCA – a development which appears to be driven by a ramping up of risk management activity under the amended law. Also on the podcast, global managing editor, Kate Lo...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, editorial director, Geraint Roberts, talks about concerns flagged by the European Chemicals Agency Echa, that its contribution to the European Green Deal agenda and chemicals strategy for sustainability will be at risk unless, "stability, predictability and certainty of financing are guaranteed." Also on the podcast, global managing editor, Kat...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor, Kate Lowe, is joined by editorial director Geraint Roberts, North America managing editor Terry Hyland and science editor Andrew Turley. First, we hear more about a leaked European Commission internal document which shows early health and environmental protection commitments for an ambitious new EU chemicals strategy for...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor, Kate Lowe, is joined by emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey, science editor, Andrew Turley and business editor, Leigh Stringer. First, we hear about plans in Ghana to consult this autumn on a draft comprehensive chemicals bill that would require companies to register all industrial and consumer chemicals in the...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, Kate Lowe is joined by science editor Andrew Turley, editorial director Geraint Roberts and North America managing editor Terry Hyland. First we hear about an international group of scientists who are making the argument for managing per- and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFASs) as a class, and who say a more precise set of criteria is needed to...

In this episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined by North America managing editor Terry Hyland, Asia desk reporter Ellen Daliday and emerging markets reporter Ginger Hervey. First, we catch up on the progress of a raft of expected developments concerning the first risk evaluations to be carried out in the US under the amended Toxic Substances Control Act. S...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, news editor Charlotte Niemiec is joined by North America managing editor Terry Hyland and editorial director Geraint Roberts to discuss two stories from the week. First, the news from the US that two Republican senators have said they will oppose the nomination of Nancy Beck, a former principal deputy assistant administrator for the Office of C...

In this latest episode of the Chemical Watch Podcast, global managing editor Kate Lowe is joined by reporter Terry Hyland, managing editor of our North America desk to discuss two stories from the week. Firstly, a federal trial now underway in the US state of California that could set a new standard for how courts handle citizen petitions under TSCA – a development which could have considerable ra...