All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Nov 19 2014 // Four workers who died on Nov. 15 at a DuPont and Co. plant in Texas were accidentally asphyxiated by chemicals, the coroner’s office said, another finding that suggests the victims were not wearing full safety...
Nov 17 2014 // Four workers were killed and one was injured during a hazardous chemical leak at a DuPont industrial plant in suburban Houston, company officials said.The chemical, methyl mercaptan, began leaking from a valve around 4...
Nov 11 2014 // The Oklahoma Department of Environmental Quality has put on the department’s website the locations of chemical storage sites and other facilities in the state.The map also shows the locations of oil and gas wells,...
Nov 3 2014 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) is launching a national dialogue on ways to prevent work-related illness caused by exposure to hazardous substances. The first stage...
Oct 15 2014 // A state judge signed an order temporarily blocking ash from the incineration of a Texas Ebola victim’s belongings to be disposed of at a southwest Louisiana site.Attorney General Buddy Caldwell had sought the order...
Sep 19 2014 // A federal bankruptcy judge has approved a $2.9 million settlement that would benefit 300,000 people whose water was contaminated in a January chemical spill.Judge Ronald Pearson filed the order this past Tuesday in U.S....
Sep 17 2014 // A lawsuit against a water company, chemical producer, airport and others over a January chemical spill won’t get a hearing for another year.The consolidated lawsuit that targets West Virginia American Water, Eastman...
Sep 16 2014 // Occidental Petroleum Corp.’s chemical unit agreed to pay $190 million to cover its liability for the cleanup of the Passaic River in northern New Jersey, state officials said.Occidental Chemical is the legal...
Sep 10 2014 // A bankruptcy judge is concerned that a chemical company may abandon the site of a massive January spill without cleaning it up.Judge Ronald Pearson expressed the concern in an order filed last Friday in U.S. Bankruptcy...
Sep 4 2014 // A utility is opposing a $2.9 million bankruptcy settlement that would fund projects to benefit 300,000 people whose water was contaminated in January.West Virginia American Water says Freedom Industries shouldn’t use...
Aug 29 2014 // DuPont will pay a fine of $1.275 million to settle a federal complaint over eight chemical releases from a Kanawha County production facility, one of which killed a worker.The Department of Justice and U.S. Environmental...
Aug 27 2014 // The Federal Emergency Management Agency has reimbursed $1.4 million to local and state governments, hospitals and some non-profit groups for costs related to January’s chemical spill in Charleston, West Virginia.The...
Aug 25 2014 // An airport and a chemical producer want claims dismissed in a lawsuit partly targeting them over a January chemical spill.In U.S. District Court in Charleston, Yeager Airport filed a motion last week to dismiss claims in...
Aug 18 2014 // Charleston, West Virginia-based Freedom Industries can expect about 5,000 groups to ask for money in bankruptcy claims over the January chemical spill that seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply. The...
Aug 18 2014 // The massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people last year is unlikely to meaningfully change regulatory or safety rules in Texas until at least 2016 under a bill proposed by lawmakers tasked with scrutinizing...
Aug 13 2014 // Federal health officials are outlining new studies on the chemicals that spilled into West Virginia’s largest drinking water supply. The National Toxicology Program said in a memo that potential pregnancy and liver...
Aug 12 2014 // When coal-cleaning chemicals seeped into West Virginia’s biggest water supply in January, the city of Cincinnati had a decision to make 200 miles downstream.As the city feared, a sheet of contaminants cruised down...
Aug 7 2014 // The massive fertilizer plant explosion that killed 15 people last year is unlikely to meaningfully change regulatory or safety rules in Texas until at least 2016 under the latest bill offered Aug.5 by lawmakers tasked with...
Aug 4 2014 // Taiwan authorities are preparing to inspect thousands of miles of pipeline after the government blamed the island’s deadliest industrial accident on a chemicals company. Shares of petrochemicals declined.Preliminary...
Aug 1 2014 // General Star Management Co. has unveiled underwriting enhancements for chemical product manufacturers and distributors.For the first time, General Star will offer occurrence form coverage for manufacturers and distributors...