All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Aug 6 2018 // Low levels of cancer-causing chemicals have been found in three wells of a Florida town. Satellite Beach City Manager Courtney Barker said Wednesday that the chemicals are similar to ones used in fire extinguishing foams,...
Aug 6 2018 // The North American subsidiary of a French chemical manufacturer and two senior staff members were indicted in connection with last year’s explosion at the Crosby, Texas, plant in the wake of Hurricane Harvey.Arkema...
Jul 20 2018 // An Ohio chemical manufacturing plant has exploded and caught fire, prompting authorities to evacuate a large area around it.Emerald Performance Materials says it evacuated the plant in Akron and notified the fire...
Jul 19 2018 // North Carolina and federal health officials want to test whether neighbors of a chemical company are carrying little-understood industrial compounds in their bodies. North Carolina’s Department of Health and Human...
Jun 11 2018 // A federal judge has given final approval of a $151 million settlement of a lawsuit stemming from a chemical spill into a West Virginia river.The Charleston Gazette-Mail reports that U.S. District Judge John T. Copenhaver...
Jun 4 2018 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is urging chemical plants to weigh the risks of natural disasters just as they would the integrity of pipes and production equipment.“Such facilities should perform an analysis to...
May 25 2018 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board on Thursday urged chemical plants to weigh the risks of natural disasters just as they would the integrity of pipes and production equipment.“Such facilities should perform an analysis...
May 24 2018 // Study after study shows that money stress can be as bad for workplace productivity as back pain.The latest study, released by PwC on Tuesday, found that a quarter of U.S. workers said financial worries caused them health...
May 18 2018 // The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency took steps on Thursday to roll back and delay Obama-era rules aimed at improving safety at chemical plants, which had come in response to a 2013 explosion at a fertilizer plant in...
May 8 2018 // A North Carolina chemical plant is on shutdown as the company and investigators explore why a worker died. A spokeswoman for Dutch chemical-maker AkzoNobel said Sunday the man fell into an empty tank at the company’s...
May 4 2018 // The mayors of the Lake Superior twin port cities near last week’s oil refinery explosion and fire are calling on its owners to stop using a dangerous chemical compound at the site.Husky Energy in Superior is one of...
Apr 12 2018 // North Carolina should tackle an emerging problem of water and air pollution from little-studied industrial chemicals by beefing up the state’s health and environmental agencies, Gov. Roy Cooper said Tuesday.Cooper...
Apr 5 2018 // U.S. Steel will pay a $600,000 civil penalty and $630,000 to reimburse various federal agencies for costs and damages after one of its plants discharged wastewater containing a potentially carcinogenic chemical into a...
Apr 3 2018 // Note: This story originally ran in The Texas Tribune.Most of the houses along Crosby Eastgate Road in Southeast Texas and its neighboring streets are one-story outfits on sprawling green lots. In their driveways are spare...
Apr 3 2018 // An Arkansas judge has ruled that six farmers in the state this summer can spray a weed killer made by Monsanto Co. and BASF SE that was blamed for hurting millions of acres of U.S. crops last year.The decision is the...
Apr 3 2018 // Coffee sellers will have to post ominous warnings in California because each cup contains a chemical linked to cancer, a judge ruled.The culprit is a byproduct of the bean roasting process that is a known carcinogen and...
Apr 2 2018 // Starbucks Corp. and other coffee sellers must put a cancer warning on coffee sold in California, a Los Angeles judge has ruled, possibly exposing the companies to millions of dollars in fines.A little-known not-for-profit...
Apr 2 2018 // The California Supreme Court will again intervene in the protracted saga of insurance litigation stemming from the bodily injury, property damage, and Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act...
Mar 26 2018 // A toxic onslaught from the nation’s petrochemical hub was largely overshadowed by the record-shattering deluge of Hurricane Harvey as residents and first responders struggled to save lives and property.More than a...
Mar 20 2018 // Tennessee regulators have fined a chemical plant $25,000 for an explosion that shut down an interstate and put several schools on lockdown. WRCB-TV reported that the Tennessee Occupational Safety and Health Administration...