The #UnitedStates has lifted restrictions on #exports to #China for #chip design #software developers & #ethane producers, a further sign of de-escalating US-Sino #trade tensions including concessions from Beijing over #RareEarths.

[reminder, this ridiculous Trump stunt didn’t achieve anything. In fact, nothing has improved for the US, not only is there no additional money coming in, but the US is paying more than the day before he came into office.]

#TACO #economy
https://www.reuters.com/world/china/siemens-says-us-has-lifted-chip-software-curbs-china-bloomberg-news-reports-2025-07-03/

Titan science results from James Webb Space Telescope: animation resource page 🌎🛰️🪐

#Chemistry #Clouds #Earth #Ethane #Evolution #Hydrocarbon #JWST #JamesWebbSpaceTelescope

⏩ 3 new pictures and 3 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=27&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250516130038

Titan science results from James Webb Space Telescope: animation resource page 🪐

#Chemistry #Ethane #Evolution #JWST #Lake #Methane #Methyl #PlanetaryScience

⏩ 1 new picture and 2 new videos from NASA (SVS) https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:ListFiles?limit=13&user=OptimusPrimeBot&ilshowall=1&offset=20250515125954

🇨🇳 CHINA | 🇺🇸 US
🔴 China Starts Tariff Exemptions for Some US Goods

🔸 131 US product categories—worth $45B—under review for tariff waivers.
🔸 Items include vaccines, jet engines, and critical petrochemicals.
🔸 China still vows to fight unless US lifts 145% tariffs.
🔸 Waivers may apply where US has no substitute—like ethane and key drugs.

#China #USChinaTrade #Tariffs #TradeWar #Exports #Pharma #Ethane #JetEngines

Breathing deep: Scientists characterize novel #enzymes
from deep-sea microbes with a key function in #ethane degradation, incl surprises in the
#metabolism of these organisms!

Out now in Nature Communications

mpi-bremen.de/en/Page6361....

nature.com/articles/s41...

How nice: a plan to collect 1 Mt in macroplastic from the ocean by 2050.

Too bad the USA increased the *yearly* production and export of its primary ingredient by *30 times* that amount in a couple years.
https://www.eia.gov/todayinenergy/detail.php?id=61704

We need to act at the source.
https://www.ciel.org/plasticandclimate/

#SystemChangeNotClimateChange #ClimateChange #ClimateCrisis #plastics #ethane #ethylene

Who Is Putin Ally Behind Mike Johnson Campaign Donation?

Money previously given to House Speaker Mike Johnson by #Russian nationals re-emerged after he blocked a $95 billion foreign aid bill passed in the Senate

In 2018, a group of Russians were able to donate to Johnson’s bid for the Louisiana seat he eventually won as the money was funneled through the Texas-based American #Ethane company.

https://www.newsweek.com/who-konstantin-nikolaev-money-mike-johnson-1870600

#corruption #bribes #Johnson #America #RussianAggression #StandWithUkraine