chemicals Archives

Suit Accusing Monsanto of Polluting Baltimore Waterways Advances

April 1, 2020April 2, 2020 JACK RODGERS

Baltimore, chemicals, fish, PCBs, pollution, water

Agrochemical giant Monsanto cannot duck a lawsuit accusing it of contaminating Baltimore waterways, a federal judge ruled Tuesday.

Business Environment

DuPont Ducks Suit From Entity Spun Off to Handle Chemical Liabilities

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 ALEXANDRA JONES

chemicals, mergers & acquisitions, pollution

A Delaware judge said Monday he has no jurisdiction to hear a case alleging that DuPont massively lowballed litigation costs related to the manufacturing giant’s production of toxic chemicals.

Business Consumers Health International Law

Bayer Settles a Roundup Case for $40 Million

March 31, 2020March 31, 2020 AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE

cancer, chemicals, cover up, Env3, glyphosate, Monsanto, Roundup, Settlement

German chemicals and pharmaceutical giant Bayer has settled a court case involving its weed-killer Roundup, a flagship product of its U.S. subsidiary Monsanto, a spokesman said Tuesday.

Environment Science

Bacteria Provide Key to Recycling Durable Plastics

March 26, 2020March 27, 2020 MATTHEW RENDA

bacteria, chemicals, plastic, recycling, Research

Polyurethanes are ubiquitous, composing the material used in many products from microcellular seals to skateboard wheels. One of the reasons the plastic is so popular with material scientists is that it is so durable.

Environment Science

Global Ban on Ozone-Eating Chemicals Credited in Change to Southern Jet Stream

March 25, 2020March 25, 2020 NICHOLAS IOVINO

Agriculture, chemicals, Climate change, oceans, treaty, Weather

International efforts to curb ozone-depleting chemicals have paused and potentially reversed shifting jet stream winds that affect storm patterns, ocean temperatures and Antarctic sea ice in the Southern Hemisphere, scientists found in a study released Wednesday.

Environment Government Health

Groups Bring Suit Over Secret Approval Process for PFAS Chemicals

March 18, 2020March 19, 2020 MEGAN MINEIRO

chemicals, EPA, public access, regulation

Bemoaning the government’s clandestine process of approving widely unregulated PFAS chemicals, environmentalists brought a federal complaint Wednesday to make the chemical program transparent.

Science

Bronze Age Diet and Farming Practices Reconstructed Using Isotopes

March 11, 2020March 12, 2020 CARSON McCULLOUGH

chemicals, history, Research, Spain

New chemical research into one of Europe’s earliest communities sheds more light into the group’s complexities of class and social hierarchy in the Bronze Age.

Business Criminal Environment Trials

Trial Over Chemical Plant Fire Kicks Off in Houston

February 27, 2020February 27, 2020 CAMERON LANGFORD

chemicals, Fire, first responders, Houston, Hurricanes, pollution, Texas

Plagued by a spate of plant explosions and fires, Texas petrochemical producers stepped into unchartered waters in a Houston courtroom Thursday with state prosecutors urging jurors to send a CEO to prison for a chemical meltdown that damaged the lungs of two sheriff’s deputies.

Business Criminal Environment Government Law Trials

Trial Over Texas Chemical Plant Fire Delayed After Sanction

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 CAMERON LANGFORD

Assault, chemicals, evidence, Fire, first responders, Houston, Hurricanes, pollution, prosecutors, Sanctions

A petrochemical company’s criminal trial over air pollutants released during Hurricane Harvey that sickened first responders was pushed back three days Monday when a state judge sanctioned prosecutors.

Science

For First Time, Scientists Measure Snow From Cloud-Seeding Effort

February 24, 2020February 25, 2020 CARSON McCULLOUGH

chemicals, Research, water, Weather

Scientists have long explored the environmental possibilities of cloud seeding – injecting special chemicals into the atmosphere to create a manmade snowfall. Now they know how well it works.

Environment Government

EPA Will Regulate Two Toxic Chemicals in Drinking Water

February 21, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS

chemicals, EPA, water

The Environmental Protection Agency announced Thursday that it plans to regulate two nonstick and stain-resistant compounds in the drinking water amid growing concerns the chemicals found in everything from pizza boxes to carpet pose a health hazard.

Environment Government Health

Firefighting Foam

February 20, 2020February 21, 2020 BRIEF

Brief6, chemicals, Defense Department, Fire, firefighters, Trump administration

Environmentalists and other nonprofits sued several Trump administration agencies Thursday, claiming approvals for the incineration of highly toxic firefighting foam will lead to dire health consequences and violates federal law.

Environment Government

Cancer Alley

February 19, 2020February 19, 2020 BRIEF

Brief3, chemicals, Louisiana, permits, plastic

Six environmental groups sued the Louisiana Department of Environmental Quality for issuing permits to Formosa Plastics to build and operate a new chemical complex in St. James Parish, in East Baton Rouge Parish Court.

Business Environment Health

Manufacturer to Stop Making Pesticide Linked to Brain Damage

February 7, 2020February 7, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS

brain, chemicals, manufacturing, pesticides, Sci3

The manufacturer of a commonly used pesticide that has been linked to brain damage in children will stop making the chemical this year.

Energy Environment Government Health

Report: 10 US Refineries Emitting Toxic Pollutant Above Limit

February 6, 2020February 6, 2020 TRAVIS BUBENIK

chemicals, EPA, Oil and gas, pollution, regulation, toxic waste

Ten U.S. oil refineries were in late 2019 spewing levels of the cancer-causing pollutant benzene above a regulatory limit set by the Environmental Protection Agency, an environmental group said in a report released Thursday.

Business Environment Law

Federal Grand Jury Subpoenas 3M Over Chemical Discharges

January 30, 2020January 30, 2020 ASSOCIATED PRESS

Alabama, chemicals, grand jury, manufacturing, permits, rivers, Sci4, subpoena

3M has been subpoenaed by a federal grand jury in connection to discharges from a chemical plant in northern Alabama that may not have complied with permit requirements.

Environment Health Science

‘Forever Chemicals’ Are More Ubiquitous Than Thought, Study Says

January 22, 2020January 22, 2020 ALEXANDRA JONES

chemicals, contamination, Research, water

Collaborating with an environmental watchdog group, actor and activist Mark Ruffalo announced Wednesday that private testing has found significant levels of controversial PFAS chemicals in the drinking water of dozens of U.S. cities.

Business Consumers Environment

Toxic Waste

January 14, 2020January 14, 2020 BRIEF

Brief6, chemicals, dumping, Oil and gas, timber, toxic waste

A federal class action claims Kerr McGee Chemical Corp., Anadarko Petroleum Corp., Occidental Petroleum Corp., BNSF Railway Co. and International Paper Co. dumped toxic chemicals from creosote wood treatment processes for years across multiple states.

Business Energy Environment

Mercury Contamination

January 2, 2020January 2, 2020 BRIEF

Brief8, chemicals, Department of Energy, toxic waste

Coeur Rochester sued the U.S. Department of Energy in federal court, claiming its long-delayed yet still hasty and sloppy regulations on mercury storage and disposal are irrational and illegal.

Environment Law

Water Supply

December 30, 2019December 31, 2019 BRIEF

chemicals, dbrief4, EPA, water

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency is not entitled to summary judgment in a suit brought by nonprofit groups that claim fluoridation chemicals added to public water supplies are neurotoxic, a federal court in California ruled.

← Previous