All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2016 // Duke Energy Corp. has agreed to pay a $6 million fine for a big spill that coated the Dan River with liquefied coal ash in 2014, North Carolina’s environment agency said Friday.The fine holds Duke Energy accountable...
Sep 22 2016 // Chemical manufacturing giant Dow fails to warn people in farming communities throughout California when a potentially dangerous pesticide is applied to nearby fields, health advocates claimed in a lawsuit filed...
Sep 7 2016 // Hundreds of banana farmers from Central America and South America will again have their day in court, after a U.S. appeals court on Friday revived six lawsuits accusing several big fruit and chemical companies of sickening...
Sep 1 2016 // Officials are investigating the cause of a chlorine leak at a chemical plant near Proctor, West Virginia.The Intelligencer reports that 33,000 gallons of liquid chlorine leaked Saturday from a rail car inside Axiall...
Aug 31 2016 // Authorities in North Carolina say seven workers were treated at a hospital for minor injuries and several nearby homes were evacuated as a precaution after cleaning chemicals interacted at a meat packing plant in the...
Aug 26 2016 // Their son is gone.Luke Beardemphl, a standout Tacoma, Washington soccer player during his years at Stadium High School, died last year at 24, following a seven-year battle with Hodgkin’s lymphoma. But Luke’s...
Aug 4 2016 // A Massachusetts chemicals manufacturer has been cited by federal labor officials following a January explosion that injured four workers.The U.S. Department of Labor says an investigation by the Occupational Safety and...
Jul 22 2016 // Wal-Mart Stores Inc. is asking suppliers to remove formaldehyde, triclosan and six other substances from their products, part of an effort to eliminate controversial chemicals from household goods.The chemicals on the list...
Jul 19 2016 // DuPont Co. and Dow Chemical Co. must tell shareholders before next week’s merger vote that they may face exposure to costly potential damages from claims that a chemical used to make Teflon caused cancer and other...
Jul 15 2016 // Federal government scientists have released a final update of their study of the January 2014 chemical spill that temporarily fouled the drinking water supplies of 300,000 Charleston-area residents, reporting no...
Jul 8 2016 // A U.S. jury has ordered DuPont to pay $5.1 million to a man who said he developed testicular cancer from exposure to a toxic chemical used to make Teflon at one of its plants, according to a DuPont spokesman.It is the...
Jun 16 2016 // A water system that had to tell its 10,000 customers not to drink from their taps has brought chemical contamination down to federally acceptable levels by diluting it with water from another north Alabama utility,...
Jun 10 2016 // Federal safety experts say errors by a Houston Ship Channel pilot likely caused the 2015 collision between two 600-foot vessels that led to a chemical spill.The Houston Chronicle reported that the National Transportation...
Jun 8 2016 // The U.S. Senate passed legislation on Tuesday that would revamp federal chemical safety protections for the first time in decades, sending it to President Barack Obama for his expected signing into law.The Senate approved...
Jun 6 2016 // Lisa Davis, a cashier at a Foodvalu grocery store in rural north Alabama, spent Friday, June 3, ringing up bottled water sales after a local utility declared its tap water unfit to drink because of chemical...
May 26 2016 // Legislation with bipartisan support that would revamp U.S. chemical safety law for the first time in decades is advancing in Congress, winning overwhelming passage in the House of Representatives as backers sought quick...
May 23 2016 // West Virginia officials have issued a “Do Not Drink” advisory for Vienna water after the Environmental Protection Agency announced a new limit for the amount of a chemical present in Wood County’s...
Apr 4 2016 // A southwest Missouri woman was awarded $20.6 million in damages after federal jurors found that a company exposed her to a toxic chemical that left her with permanent disabilities. A jury awarded Jodelle Kirk $13 million...
Mar 7 2016 // An environmental group’s lawsuit claims ExxonMobil Corp. continues to violate Clean Air Act regulations despite a 2014 settlement over emissions from the company’s Baton Rouge chemical plant.The Louisiana...
Feb 18 2016 // An executive who appeared unsympathetic when he spoke to the public after a chemical spill sullied tap water for 300,000 people in West Virginia was sentenced to one month in federal prison Wednesday.Ex-Freedom Industries...