All the headlines from our Chemicals Topic Page, ordered by recency.
May 15 2008 // Federal investigators have concluded that a lack of company safeguards such as alarms and automatic shutoffs led to a massive chemical plant explosion in Danvers.The U.S. Chemical Safety Board is expected to issue a report...
Apr 21 2008 // 3M Co. will probably pay between $50 million and $56 million to clean up sites in the eastern Twin Cities that have been contaminated by chemicals that were once used in some of the company’s best-known products.The...
Apr 17 2008 // A chemical used to make baby bottles and other shatterproof plastic containers could be linked to a range of hormonal problems, a preliminary government report has found.The report was greeted by some environmental groups...
Apr 9 2008 // 3M Co. will probably pay between $50 million and $56 million to clean up sites in the eastern Twin Cities that have been contaminated by chemicals that were once used in some of the company’s best-known products.The...
Mar 13 2008 // A Danvers, Mass. chemical plant that exploded in November 2006 was storing at least twice the combustible substances it was permitted to keep, according to a report released this week.The facility was licensed by the town...
Feb 22 2008 // A federal appeals court Friday upheld a lower court ruling dismissing a civil lawsuit against major U.S. chemical companies brought by Vietnamese plaintiffs over the use of dioxin, or “agent orange,” during the...
Feb 13 2008 // Jurors in Fort Worth, Texas, on Feb. 11 rejected a cancer survivor’s claim that toxic chemicals from a Texas railroad tie plant where her husband worked caused the disease that required the removal of her...
Feb 10 2008 // In a 5-4 decision, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed direction and allowed lawsuits from workers who become ill many years after being exposed to dangerous chemicals.The majority said the two-year statute of limitations...
Jan 30 2008 // In a 5-4 decision, the Alabama Supreme Court reversed direction and allowed lawsuits from workers who become ill many years after being exposed to dangerous chemicals.The majority said the two-year statute of limitations...
Jan 21 2008 // A South Carolina company being sued by neighbors for polluting groundwater around its plant in Myrtle Beach is asking a court to force those neighbors to help pay for testing and cleanup of contamination.AVX Corp. says in...
Jan 17 2008 // A Kentucky chemical plant was evacuated Tuesday following a fire and a series of explosions, but no injuries were reported, the company said.The blaze was reported about 10 a.m. EST at the BASF Corp. plant, which makes...
Jan 16 2008 // The federal government won’t override New Jersey’s chemical security laws, which are tougher than the national standard, thanks to a provision pushed by Sen. Frank Lautenberg.Lautenberg, D-N.J., was in Jersey...
Jan 14 2008 // Worcester, Mass.-based The Hanover Insurance Group, Inc. has agreed to acquire Verlan Holdings, Inc., a Silver Spring, Maryland-based holding company that provides insurance to manufacturers and distributors of...
Jan 10 2008 // Owners of a Texas plant that makes railroad ties were grossly negligent in failing to provide safety equipment for workers handling toxic chemicals, a pollution prevention expert testified in the first of a flurry of...
Jan 7 2008 // The blast from an explosion that killed four workers at a Florida chemical plant last month was equal to a ton of TNT and blew debris as far as a mile away, a U.S. investigator said Thursday.“The blast at T2...
Dec 20 2007 // An explosion and fire at a chemical plant in Jacksonville, Fla., killed four people Wednesday and injured at least 14, fire officials said.Fire officials initially ordered a precautionary evacuation within a half-mile of...
Nov 27 2007 // Lexington Insurance Company, a member company of American International Group, Inc. (AIG), has increased capacity of its BioChem Shield product from $10 million to $25 million. BioChem Shield is Lexington’s coverage...
Nov 8 2007 // A jury awarded $3.3 million to six workers who claimed they were left sterile by a pesticide used at a banana plantation in Nicaragua operated by Dole Fresh Fruit Co.The workers’ lawsuit accused Dole and Standard...
Sep 28 2007 // That buttery taste and smell of microwave popcorn may have caused a deadly lung disease in workers who package it. While there’s no evidence of any danger to the millions of people who eat it, Congress is taking...
Sep 19 2007 // Salisbury, Md.-based Consumer Specialties Insurance Co. (CSI), a risk retention group serving chemical manufacturer and distributor members of the Consumer Specialty Products Association (CSPA), announced that it has...