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Industry Flexes Political Muscle in States to Criminalize Aggressive Pipeline Protests
Aug 20 2019 // After protesters disrupted construction of an oil pipeline in North Dakota by chaining themselves to construction equipment and pitching tents along the route, oil and chemical companies found a way to keep it from...
Fire at Texas Plant Could Disrupt Exxon’s Chemical Business
Aug 1 2019 // Exxon Mobil Corp.’s suburban Houston refining and chemicals complex erupted in flames on Wednesday, prompting municipal leaders to order residents to seek shelter indoors, shut their windows and turn off air...
New Connecticut Task Force to Begin Study of PFAS Chemicals
Jul 29 2019 // A new interagency task force will soon begin work on a plan to minimize the impact of a group of potentially dangerous industrial compounds known as “forever chemicals” on Connecticut residents. The group of...
From Confined Spaces to Big Buildings, Drones Take On Riskiest Jobs
Jul 29 2019 // Here’s a job any worker would be happy to pass off to a drone: Imagine crawling down a ladder into the vast darkness of a 20-story-high storage tank filled with toxic chemical fumes to spend hours searching for...
Report: Millions of Gallons of Waste Created by Texas Petrochemical Fire
Jul 24 2019 // The cleanup of millions of gallons of waste and polluted water is far from over four months after a large fire burned for days at a Houston-area petrochemical storage site. Intercontinental Terminals Company, the...
Roundup Not Only Monsanto Legal Woe For Bayer; PCB Claims Still Coming
Jul 24 2019 // The widening legal nightmare over Roundup weedkillers isn’t the only potential multi-billion-dollar liability Bayer AG inherited last year when it acquired Monsanto Co. While thousands of damage claims over Roundup...
New Hampshire Committee to Consider Tough Water Standards for Chemicals
Jul 19 2019 // A New Hampshire legislative committee will consider a proposal to create some of the nation’s toughest drinking water standards for a class of toxic chemicals that have caused widespread contamination in the...
Minnesota City Seeking Study of Toxic Chemical After Refinery Blast
Jul 17 2019 // City leaders in Duluth, Minnesota, are taking steps to ensure that residents will be safe following the upcoming reconstruction of a refinery that exploded in neighboring Superior, Wisconsin. The Husky Energy oil refinery...
Chemical Contamination Found in Wells Near Delaware Air Force Base
Jul 17 2019 // Businesses and residents near Dover Air Force Base in Delaware are being provided bottled water after chemical contaminants were found in private wells near the base at levels far exceeding federal health advisory...
Towns Raising Concerns About New Hampshire PFAS Standards
Jul 9 2019 // Groups representing municipalities and businesses are trying to put the brakes on New Hampshire’s efforts to impose some of the nation’s toughest drinking water standards for a class of toxic chemicals that...
Delaware Chemical Manufacturer Fined $262K for Exposing Workers to Toxic Gas
Jul 1 2019 // The U.S. Department of Labor’s Occupational Safety and Health Administration (OSHA) cited Croda Inc. after a chemical release at the New Castle, Del., manufacturing plant exposed workers to ethylene oxide. The...
Vermont Sues DuPont, 3M, Others Over Chemical Pollutants
Jul 1 2019 // Vermont announced Thursday that it’s filed lawsuits against DuPont, 3M and other chemical companies for damages it says was caused to groundwater, drinking water and other natural resources by the contamination of a...
Chemours Suit Claims DuPont’s Clean-Up Liability Estimates ‘Spectacularly Wrong’
Jul 1 2019 // Chemours Co. claims its former parent DuPont Inc.’s estimates on liabilities the spun-off company should cover were “spectacularly wrong” and wants a judge to block the chemical maker’s requests for...
Chemical Safety Board: Numerous Failures Led to 2014 Texas Dupont Plant Deaths
Jun 27 2019 // The U.S. Chemical Safety Board says the deaths of four workers at a chemical plant in Texas in 2014 were the result of a long list of safety failures in the plant’s operations. The CSB has released its final...
10 People at Clark Atlanta University Treated After Chemical Spill in Science Building
Jun 24 2019 // At least 10 people had to be decontaminated after a worker at a university in Atlanta spilled a chemical, creating a white cloud inside a science building. News outlets report everyone was evacuated Friday from the...
Drug Makers’ Supply Chain Probed as Blood Pressure Pill Tests Positive for Carcinogens
Jun 19 2019 // An online pharmacy told U.S. regulators it found another cancer-causing chemical in widely prescribed blood-pressure pills, raising new questions about a complex global web of companies that produces medicine for millions...
Illinois Silicone Plant Sued by State, County After Fatal Blast
Jun 6 2019 // Illinois and Lake County are suing the owner of a Chicago-area silicone factory that exploded last month, seeking to force the company to identify the nature and extent of chemical pollution in the area and limit the...
Maine Bill Aims to Ban Certain Food Packaging Chemicals
Jun 6 2019 // The Maine Legislature has passed a bill aimed at prohibiting the sale of food packaging with certain potentially toxic chemicals. The Senate on Tuesday sent the bill to Governor Janet Mills, who has pushed to explore...
New Hampshire Sues 3M, DuPont, Other Chemical Companies
May 31 2019 // New Hampshire has sued eight companies including 3M and the DuPont Co. for damage it says has been caused by a class of potentially toxic chemicals found in pizza boxes, fast-food wrappers and drinking water. The...
Chemical Multinationals Must Stop Cutting Corners in Sourcing: Report on China Blast
May 22 2019 // A prominent Chinese environmental group has called on chemicals multinationals to stop “cutting corners” by outsourcing business to Chinese suppliers that violate safety regulations after an investigation into...
