All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
Sep 27 2011 // Federal officials say safety is still a concern at the Pueblo Chemical Depot because of leaking weapons. Quality assurance specialist Lisabeth Watchutka says more than 100 of the 780,000 chemical weapons stored at the...
Sep 26 2011 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board, releasing a video depicting a deadly chemical leak at a DuPont plant in Belle, West Virginia last year, said the final investigation report should remind every manufacturer to make safety a...
Sep 26 2011 // Bedbugs don’t make people sick. But the poisons used to kill them can.A new government study has found that dozens of Americans have fallen ill from the insecticides, and a North Carolina woman died after using 18...
Jul 26 2011 // Chartis has expanded NextGen Protection, a suite of environmental insurance products offered through its Environmental division, to meet the needs of chemical manufacturers and distributors.The latest product in the...
Jul 14 2011 // A study commissioned by Samsung Electronics rejected assertions that employees may have been exposed to carcinogenic chemicals at its plants, as several cancer-stricken former employees of the world’s top memory...
Jul 13 2011 // Some of the world’s leading clothing brands rely on Chinese suppliers that pollute rivers with toxic, hormone-disrupting chemicals banned in Europe and elsewhere, the environment group Greenpeace said on...
Jul 7 2011 // Chemical maker DuPont failed to promptly inform emergency crews about a phosgene leak that killed a worker last year, according to a U.S. government report released Thursday.The report by the Chemical Safety Board (CSB), a...
Jun 16 2011 // A fire at a plant in Louisiana’s Iberia Parish where chemicals are blended and stored for oilfield operations forced area residents to evacuate or hunker down while a grayish-brown column of smoke rose hundreds of...
Jun 3 2011 // A federal judge has declined to reduce the $1 million fine and $2 million in restitution he ordered paid by a Colorado company that admitted partial responsibility for the death of a Baton Rouge plant worker.Chief U.S....
May 9 2011 // Two lawsuits have been filed on behalf of more than 250 West Texas residents against four companies they contend contaminated their Midland-area neighborhood with hexavalent chromium.According to court documents obtained...
Jan 24 2011 // Marsh has launched ChemPreferred, a customized package of policies for midsize chemical companies. Available to U.S. chemical and processing companies with annual sales between $25 million and $500 million, ChemPreferred...
Nov 29 2010 // Reports on a federal board’s investigations of fatal incidents at two West Virginia chemical plants won’t be released until next year.The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is investigating a 2008 explosion at Bayer...
Sep 29 2010 // Dow Chemical Co. and Flexible Products Co. settled with nearly 1,400 miners in an Alabama court over the miners’ claims they were exposed to hazardous chemicals, Dow said Tuesday.The surprise settlement involving...
Jun 10 2010 // Yolande Sprague could be forgiven for feeling virtuous.Four years ago, just after giving birth to her second child, the Dover, new Hampshire stay-at-home mom heard about BPA, a chemical inside some plastics that can leach...
Apr 19 2010 // On the heels of a Tesoro refinery blast in Washington that killed five people, an insurance company report obtained by The Associated Press noted that U.S. oil refineries have an ongoing problem with accidents that turn...
Apr 5 2010 // U.S. oil refineries have an ongoing problem with accidents that turn deadly, losing four times as much money from such incidents than refineries in the rest of the world, according to an insurance company report obtained...
Mar 30 2010 // Residents of a southern Louisville neighborhood have sued Nuplex Resins over a chemical spill that sent vapors through sewer pipes. The Louisville Courier-Journal reported that three people filed the suit last Friday in...
Mar 22 2010 // Because of the threshold amount, many acts of domestic terrorism may not be certified. Even under the TRIA, insurers may exclude coverage for loss resulting from ‘non-certified’ acts of terrorism.After the...
Feb 1 2010 // Three recent chemical leaks at a West Virginia DuPont plant, one of which killed a worker, don’t appear to be related, a federal investigator said.U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigator Johnnie Banks promised a...
Jan 27 2010 // Federal safety officials are investigating a DuPont chemical plant Monday after a series of leaks that resulted in the death of one worker and the operation’s temporary shutdown.DuPont officials put the sprawling...