All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Feb 17 2016 // A former Freedom Industries executive was sentenced Feb. 11 to one month in federal prison for a chemical spill that fouled the drinking water supply of 300,000 West Virginians.Dennis Farrell also was fined $20,000 in U.S....
Feb 8 2016 // A bankrupt chemical company responsible for a spill that contaminated a West Virginia river and fouled the drinking water supply of 300,000 residents was fined $900,000 on pollution charges Feb. 4, with a judge noting that...
Feb 8 2016 // Dozens of Texas plants similar to a fertilizer facility that exploded in the town of West in 2013, one of Texas’ worst industrial accidents, are still operating near schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods,...
Feb 3 2016 // A former environmental consultant at a chemical distributor was sentenced to three years’ probation and fined $10,000 Monday for a 2014 chemical spill that fouled the drinking water supply of 300,000 West...
Jan 29 2016 // Dozens of Texas plants similar to a fertilizer facility that exploded in the town of West in 2013, one of Texas’ worst industrial accidents, are still operating near schools, hospitals and residential neighborhoods,...
Jan 19 2016 // Officials say an explosion at a Houston-area chemical plant has left one worker dead and three hurt.Pasadena police say the tank accident happened Saturday afternoon at the PeroxyChem Bayport Plant. A statement from...
Dec 17 2015 // Eleven contract workers were injured Tuesday in a boiler accident at chemical manufacturer Axiall Corp.’s Natrium plant in West Virginia’s Northern Panhandle, the company said.The company said in a statement...
Oct 28 2015 // Albert Hudson worries about the water coming from the well on his property near the Tennessee Valley Authority’s coal-fired power plant in Gallatin, Tenn.Hudson received a letter recently from the Tennessee...
Oct 9 2015 // An Ohio woman has been awarded $1.6 million in the trial of a lawsuit that alleged a chemical from a DuPont Co. plant contaminated drinking water and contributed to her contracting kidney cancer.A jury awarded the damages...
Oct 8 2015 // DuPont Co. was found liable for a woman’s kidney cancer in the first of 3,500 lawsuits over a toxic Teflon ingredient found in Ohio and West Virginia water, but spinoff Chemours Co. will have to bear any costs from...
Oct 6 2015 // Halliburton is offering settlements to dozens of property owners after a chemical compound called ammonium perchlorate showed up in residents’ private wells.The company has offered settlements to 130 plaintiffs...
Oct 1 2015 // A federal investigation into a poisonous gas leak that killed four workers at a Houston, Texas-area chemical plant in November found weaknesses and failures in the facility’s safety planning and procedures, officials...
Sep 30 2015 // Contamination from chemicals is likely to increase the cost to insurers of last month’s blasts in the Chinese port of Tianjin, costs which are already expected to exceed $3 billion, insurance specialists say.While...
Sep 29 2015 // John Elkann, the leader of Italy’s billionaire Agnelli family, has a way of preparing his relatives for a big takeover battle that you won’t see at your everyday company.In June, he gathered two branches of the...
Aug 28 2015 // An El Dorado, Kan., company has been ordered to pay $97,612 in restitution and a $10,000 fine for mishandling waste chemicals, U.S. Attorney Barry Grissom said. The company also must pay a $400 special assessment and serve...
Aug 17 2015 // A series of explosions rocked an oil field chemical supply company north of Houston on Aug. 14, setting off a fire that sent a broad, dense column of thick, black smoke towering into the otherwise blue skies.DrillChem said...
Aug 17 2015 // Authorities pulled more bodies from a massive blast site in the Chinese port of Tianjin, pushing the death toll to 112 on Sunday as teams scrambled to clear dangerous chemical contamination.Hundreds of people were injured...
Aug 17 2015 // The city of Spokane is suing the international agrochemical giant Monsanto, which it blames for pollution in the Spokane River in Washington.The lawsuit, filed earlier this month in U.S. District Court in Spokane, alleges...
Aug 14 2015 // Chinese officials provided scant detail on the cause of massive explosions at a hazardous-chemicals warehouse in northern China’s Tianjin port, more than a day after blasts killed at least 50 people and injured more...
Aug 5 2015 // The city of Spokane is suing the international agrochemical giant Monsanto, which it blames for pollution in the Spokane River in Washington.The lawsuit, filed last week in U.S. District Court in Spokane, alleges that the...