by Sarah Schneider | Feb 13, 2023
The Cobalt Institute is pleased to invite you to our upcoming Webinar on the US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) Integrated Risk Information System (IRIS) Assessment of Cobalt on the 7th of March at 9am EST. In June 2022 the EPA officially announced the...
by Marina Demidova | Dec 15, 2022
In 2021, the European Commission added cobalt and inorganic cobalt compounds to a list of substances requiring EU-wide occupational exposure limit (OEL) values, in accordance with the Carcinogens, Mutagens and Reprotoxic Substances Directive (2004/37/EC). On 28...
by Sarah Schneider | Dec 12, 2022
By Sarah Schneider, Policy and Communications Officer, Cobalt Institute The EU is working on the Critical Raw Materials Act – Europe’s attempt to address perceived risks around supply chains for critical raw materials in light of expected demand growth. The Act...
by Marina Demidova | Dec 9, 2022
Once upon a time, children of the world dreaded getting coal for Christmas as a punishment by Santa for their misdeeds. This year however, Ursula von der Leyen may well have included a request for some cobalt in her letter to Father Christmas. Cobalt – long a metal of...
by Sarah Schneider | Dec 7, 2022
To advance America’s transition to cleaner energy over the next decade and beyond, this past August, U.S. President Joe Biden signed into law the Inflation Reduction Act (IRA). New financial measures including tax cuts aim to support the energy transition and decrease...
