Making drugs generates a huge amount of waste but industry is showing signs of cleaning up its act according to Paul Anastas, the Yale scientist who coined the phrase "green chemistry."
GSK has stopped using an ethanol storage tank at a US R&D facility and agreed to pay a fine to settle US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) allegations that it broke waste management laws.
The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) says Teva still needs to address environmental issues at Missouri API plant landed with a $2.3m civil penalty.
Pennsylvania environmental regulators have accused Merck of
hampering their investigation of a chemical discharge from its West
Point facility that resulted in a major fish kill on the local
creek and threatened the water supplies...
Abbott Laboratories has reached a settlement with the US
Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) after it was found not
complying with leak detection and repair (LDAR) requirements for
hazardous air pollutants at its manufacturing plant...
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