GLG News by Council Members Knowledgeable on Chemical Catalysts

Putin sent a twelve member delegation to a premature meeting in Alaska, including  Gazprom's chief executive Aleksei Miller and deputy director Aleksandr Golubyev, like Putin a veteran of the KGB. The delegation did not meet with Governor Sarah Palin but with Tom Ivan, the commissioner of the Department...

Exxon is moving systematically ahead with their PNG LNG project to be located near Port Moresby.  The FEED (Front End Engineering) has been completed and Exxon has shortlisted Bechtel and Chiyoda for bid on the EPC contract.  Construction is to start in 2010, and plant start-up is expected...

The American owned and operated OEM automotive industry was only profitable when it had both a monopoly and credit was cheap. This situation can never again occur, because the OEM American owned and operated car industry's domestic market share is already below 50% and is  still rapidly decreasing...

Is the American Government smart enough to see that the average American has already written off General motors, Ford, and Chrysler? The proposed bailout of any of these mismanaged train wrecks is nothing of the sort; it would be rather a stimulant to a dying industry intended to get an unrepresentative...

For reasons of economics, safety, reliability, and longevity we can now say bye-bye to the lithium-ion battery for mass production.   The automotive press, taking its leads from a technologically ignorant automotive industry  assumed that there would be a progressive advance going...

BMW says it will soon lease 500 Mini-E, electric cars, possibly before the end of 2009, for a North American beta test. This is not a test of a practical model of the Mini Cooper, because the vehicle is just a 35 Kwh battery mated to a 150 H.P. low torque electric motor and this "power train'...

If a smart Texas teenager can assemble an electric car with a 40 mile range for under $10,000 cannot a larger corporation build a car with the same performance for use by High School and College students to go back and among school, home, and the job they'll need to pay for it? Why not build these just...

EU realizes in the face of the global banking crisis and their success in intervention that present carbon-reduction targets may now not be affordable. 

Environmental legislation requires an economic impact analysis to ensure continued viability of commerce.   California's Clean Truck Program for port operations has withstood such challenges but is now faced with litigation claiming it unlawfully regulates the trucking industry.

The quality of the passenger carrying motor vehicles offered for sale in the USA has improving dramatically during the 30 years since the, predominantly transplanted Japanese, competition forced the industry to address value rather than size and performance as the key to marketing. In...