All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Apr 17 2017 // Human error and labeling and design problems led to the release of a large chemical cloud over a northeast Kansas city that sent more than 140 people to the hospital last year and caused others to stay indoors or evacuate...
Apr 10 2017 // Stephens Insurance, LLC, an affiliate of Stephens Inc., has opened a property & casualty brokerage office in Birmingham, Ala.The new team—made up of Tice Young, Donna Sanford, James Kennedy and Marty Hall—brings...
Mar 21 2017 // When a Texas City refinery exploded in 2005, 15 people died. Months later, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board found that putting workers in temporary trailers near danger zones at the plant raised the death toll.Since then,...
Feb 13 2017 // DuPont said on Monday it agreed to pay $670.7 million in cash to settle several lawsuits related to a chemical leak from a plant in West Virginia.The company said it settled about 3,550 personal injury claims arising from...
Jan 27 2017 // A proposed settlement was filed Wednesday in the state investigation of West Virginia American Water’s role in a chemical spill and resulting water crisis in the Charleston area three years ago.Thousands of gallons...
Jan 6 2017 // A U.S. jury in Ohio on Jan. 5 ordered DuPont to pay $10.5 million in punitive damages to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from a Dupont plant, the plaintiff’s...
Dec 22 2016 // A U.S. jury in Ohio ordered DuPont to pay $2 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical leaked from one of the company’s plants, according to the plaintiff’s...
Dec 19 2016 // A chemical leak from an asphalt plant that led Corpus Christi officials to warn its 300,000 residents not to drink the water last week was apparently reported a week earlier, according to an email from a state...
Dec 16 2016 // Corpus Christi, a Texas Gulf Coast city, is warning its 320,000 residents not to use tap water because it might be contaminated with petroleum-based chemicals, prompting a rush on bottled water and the closure of local...
Dec 13 2016 // For DuPont Co. and its Chemours Co. spinoff, hundreds of millions of dollars hinge on the interpretation of the word “among.”A Cincinnati appeals court heard arguments Friday that will affect the fate of...
Nov 28 2016 // A strike by hundreds of union workers at an upstate New York chemical plant is now into its fourth week.Some 700 members of an IUE-CWA local walked off the job earlier this month at Momentive Performance Materials in the...
Nov 18 2016 // Houston’s fire chief says investigators haven’t been able to determine what caused a blaze earlier this year that ignited a chemical warehouse, leading to explosions and hazardous runoff.The Houston Chronicle...
Nov 15 2016 // Texas Department of Transportation records show no highway routes designated for transport of hazardous chemicals in the Houston area have been updated over the past 20 years and government officials appear befuddled over...
Nov 9 2016 // Federal environmental regulators say they’re trying to contain and remove as much as 200,000 gallons of dangerous liquid chemicals and compounds found in storage tanks at two abandoned industrial properties in...
Nov 7 2016 // After a $151 million settlement was reached in a West Virginia chemical spill that tainted a local water system, the real wait begins for residents and businesses hoping to cash in on the claims process.And for whoever is...
Nov 2 2016 // A federal judge on Monday tentatively approved a $151 million settlement involving two companies sued over a 2014 chemical spill that contaminated drinking water in southern West Virginia.U.S. District Judge John...
Oct 19 2016 // Landowners in Kingfisher County, Oklahoma, have filed a lawsuit against a railroad company over a chemical spill caused by a train derailment two decades ago.The Journal Record reported that public documents indicate a...
Oct 19 2016 // New York is offering free blood tests for residents of a Hudson Valley city where the water supply was contaminated with a toxic chemical in fire-fighting foam used at a nearby Air National Guard base. State Health...
Oct 14 2016 // Federal safety officials have cited a Louisiana chemical manufacturer for nine serious and two other violations, and issued fines of more than $92,000.The U.S. Department of Labor Occupational Safety and Health...
Sep 30 2016 // A 2014 chemical spill into the water supply of 300,000 West Virginians could have been avoided if a company inspected its storage tanks and saw two tiny holes forming at the bottom, federal investigators said...