Big booms and bracing busts are defining features of the oil and gas business, but rarely do experts give us a five-year warning to get ahead of the cycle. The petrochemical industry is the latest to ...

This aerial photo shows the TPC petrochemical plant near downtown Houston, background, on Tuesday, Aug. 29, 2017. (AP Photo/David J. Phillip) A recent report from Texas Southern University found that ...

Let’s establish some baselines. Texas is responsible for more greenhouse-gas emissions than Saudi Arabia or the global maritime industry. Its oil, gas and petrochemical operations discharge tens of ...

Petrochemical manufacturers are commonly known as creators of the building blocks for plastic. But increasingly, they're making headlines for reversing that process — turning used plastic products ...

The nonprofit publication Capital & Main produced this article. It is co-published with permission. Even today, more than five years later, residents still talk about the fire. The chemical facility ...

The petrochemical industry has spent the past few years hard at work lobbying for state-level legislation to promote “chemical recycling,” a controversial process that critics say isn’t really ...

The global movement to ditch fossil fuels is largely focused on transport and industry, but the petrochemical industry will need fossil fuels for decades to come. The value of the petrochemical market ...

At an Oct. 6 investor day, Dow, the largest US chemical maker, unveiled a plan intended to improve its environmental performance without compromising profits. Dow last year set a goal of achieving net ...

The global outbreak and as-yet uncontrolled spread of coronavirus (COVID-19) during first-half 2020 has forced many downstream operators to scale back plans and budgets for previously announced major ...