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Moneycontrol.com
April 29, 2018
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swissinfo.ch
April 29, 2018
Tuesday. 5. The amount in metric tons of the chemical isopropanol that Switzerland exported to Syria in 2014. The export was uncovered by a journalist from the Swiss public broadcaster, RTS. Isopropanol can be used to make sarin gas.
The Straits Times
April 29, 2018
... evacuated by Victoria Police as a precaution while an investigation was launched into the source of the smell, because the building was known to store potentially dangerous chemicals. After a comprehensive search, firefighters identified the smell was not chemical gas, but gas generated from a durian,Ãâà...
Boston 25 News
April 28, 2018
BOSTON - A recent study may have found a link between chemicals found in popular hair products used by black women and girls and hormone and asthma-related illnesses. The study, conducted by the Newton-based Silent Springs Institute, suggests the main ingredients in things as common asÃâà...
Futurism
April 28, 2018
Bad news, everyone. “password123” probably isn't going to cut it anymore. While your initials followed by your birth year might be fine to log you in to your Netflix and Seamless accounts (what's the worst that someone can do, steal your identity?), digital security will always be limited by the strength of theÃâà...
KIMA CBS 29
April 28, 2018
Former Hanford workers are seeking help to get workers compensation for the toxic chemicals they were exposed to as employees. Dale Geer said he worked at the Hanford site for ... He said his team wore respirator masks but the masks didn't have chemical filters on them. He said he felt the plant was constantly playingÃâà...
The Hill
April 28, 2018
“I am extremely proud of what ACC has accomplished over the past ten years, especially the passage of bipartisan chemical regulatory reform legislation. It has been a privilege to work with ACC's dedicated staff and members to support the industry's role as a driver of economic growth, enabler of theÃâà...
The Hill
April 28, 2018
On average, 14 workers die every day from a fatal injury at work and this statistic does not reflect deaths from occupational diseases caused by chemical exposures. OSHA is failing when it comes to protecting workers exposed to dangerous chemicals. Of the thousands of chemicals in the workplace, OSHAÃâà...
Natural Resources Defense Council
April 27, 2018
(These chemicals got added to the furniture in the first place thanks to chemical and tobacco industry misinformation.) That's why BEARHFTI has now changed its fire safety standard to provide fire safety without the need to add toxic flame retardant chemicals. Testing results and furniture labels now indicateÃâà...
WCNC.com
April 25, 2018
IREDELL COUNTY, N.C. -- Officials held an urgent meeting with the public about a potential cancer-causing chemical found in the Iredell County Public Library in Statesville. The concern is a chemical called Perchloroethylene (PCE) which is commonly used in dry cleaning. “If we felt like the library was notÃâà...
OurQuadCities
April 25, 2018
Orion's water superintendent said the village pulls its water from deep wells that wouldn't be impacted by the chemicals. The Environmental Protection Agency is running soil and water tests to see what has been contaminated. EARLIER REPORT. Chemical runoff is the big concern surrounding the fire at aÃâà...
Miami Herald
April 25, 2018
... unborn babies and lead to other serious health issues, coma and death, according to health officials. The first toxic chemical plume in Brighton originated from Detroit Gaskets, a now-defunct company that polluted soil and groundwater with manufacturing chemicals from the late 1940s to the early 1980s.
WDET
April 25, 2018
Algae blooms in Lake Erie can be a problem for boaters and municipal water systems, but scientists say other chemicals may be even more serious. The Great Lakes Water Quality Agreement, originally signed in 1972 by the U-S and Canada, has helped lower levels of some chemicals already found in theÃâà...
Science Daily
April 25, 2018
Five years ago, a team of University of California San Diego neurobiologists published surprising findings describing how rats' brain cells adopted new chemical codes when subjected to significant changes in natural light exposure -- much as humans suffer from "winter blues," the type of depressionÃâà...
Seattle Times
April 25, 2018
The chemicals have been widely used since the 1970s, promoted in large part by the tobacco and chemical industries. A Chicago Tribune investigation in 2012 found that Dr. David Heimbach, the former director of Harborview Medical Center's Seattle burn center, fabricated tales of grievously burnedÃâà...
Michigan Radio
April 24, 2018
Rebecca Taylor told the Livingston Daily, "The company (Detroit Gaskets) used trichloroethylene for cleaning up metal parts, as a degreaser, and one woman told me she remembers seeing parts dripping (the chemical) right onto the ground. Back in the day before we had regulations on how chemicals areÃâà...
PerthNow
April 18, 2018
ASTRONOMERS have unlocked the 'DNA' of more than 340,000 stars, a discovery they say is a major boost to their quest to discover the ancient stars related to the sun. The groundbreaking collection of chemical DNA from stars is being hailed as huge breakthrough by the Australian-led team ofÃâà...
ABC Online
April 18, 2018
First it was prohormones, then it was peptides - now a new black market sports supplement hyped as the "holy grail" has taken the Australian market by storm. Every day, thousands of dollars worth of this 'prescription-only' substance is being illegally sold online and through retail stores. It's called SARMsÃâà...
Seven Days
April 18, 2018
Phil Scott vetoed a bill designed to protect children from toxic chemicals in consumer products. Scott's veto was the first of the 2018 ... “These [proposed] changes, in my opinion, have no practical impact to how my Administration regulates these chemicals,” he said. In a letter to the Senate about the veto,Ãâà...
CBS San Francisco Bay Area
April 18, 2018
Kearney was arrested on suspicion of assault with caustic chemicals and for failing to register as a sex offender in a separate attack. Tucker said the victim of the attack was “shaken” and had minor to moderate chemical burns, but she was grateful to hear Kearney had been arrested. The assault happenedÃâà...
CNN
April 18, 2018
Russian Foreign Minister Sergey Lavrov dismissed those concerns, giving his guarantee in an interview with the BBC that there had been no such Russian tampering. He said last week, however, that Russian experts had gone to the site in Douma and found "no trace" of chemical weapons use.
BBC News
April 17, 2018
The day of the suspected chemical attack, Douma still under rebel control - the last rebel-held town in the Eastern Ghouta region outside Damascus. Thousands of people were sheltering in basements from the government's bombardment, when two bombs filled with chemicals were allegedly droppedÃâà...
NPR
April 17, 2018
As inspectors await a chance to visit the site of an alleged Syrian chemical attack, questions remain about what happened there. ... OK, we're going to go now to the region to talk more about what questions remain and what information has emerged about the suspected chemical weapons attack, and whyÃâà...
Sacramento Bee
April 17, 2018
Roseville residents evacuated late Monday afternoon were allowed to go home after police and fire crews dealt with a hazardous materials incident involving chemicals found in a garage on Quails Nest Street. "Update: Residents are now able to return to their homes" the Roseville Fire Department wrote onÃâà...
EU News
April 16, 2018
The Council recalls that the European Union stands united in its support for the total prohibition and elimination of chemical weapons worldwide and that it strongly believes that use of chemical weapons, including the use of any toxic chemicals as weapons, by anyone, be it a State or a non-State actor,Ãâà...
WGNO
April 16, 2018
The air in the camp is thick, fraught with the muted mourning of people who have been through more than they can comprehend, people whose losses penetrate their souls and whose fears are so great that they can barely express them. These feelings are perhaps best described through the words of theÃâà...
Irish Times
April 16, 2018
The Government has pointedly not criticised weekend missile attacks on Syria which were mounted in response to a chemical attack on civilians on the outskirts of Damascus, for which the regime of Bashar al-Assad has been blamed. In a carefully worded statement on the air strikes, the Department ofÃâà...
The Guardian
April 16, 2018
The British envoy to the OPCW, Peter Wilson, put the Douma attack in a wider context of chemical weapons use in Syria during the war. The OPCW had recorded 390 allegations of the use of banned chemicals in Syria since 2014 he said, and a failure by the OPCW to act risked allowing “further barbaricÃâà...
Moneycontrol.com
April 16, 2018
Established in 1986, IOL Chemicals & Pharmaceuticals is India's one of the leading generic pharmaceutical company, and a significant player in the organic chemicals space. It has two business segments i.e. chemicals and pharmaceuticals. The chemical segment manufactures Ethyl Acetate, Iso ButylÃâà...
The Fayetteville Observer
April 15, 2018
In addition, Burdette said, the sludge that remains from treated wastewater continues to contain 1,4 dioxane and other chemicals. It is applied to land and runs off into streams, he said. Researchers believe industries in the Triad are largely responsible for the 1,4 dioxane in Fayetteville's drinking water.
CNN
April 15, 2018
(CNN) The United States, the United Kingdom and France are pushing for an "irreversible" end to Syria's chemical weapons program, amid furious .... Joseph Dunford, chairman of the US Joint Chiefs of Staff, said at a press briefing Saturday the strikes would set back Syria's chemicals weapons capabilityÃâà...
New York Times
April 13, 2018
“People started shouting in the streets, 'Chemicals! Chemicals!'” the student, Mohammed al-Hanash, 25, said by phone from Syria. The attack in the Syrian town of Douma on Saturday, which witnesses and medical workers said used chemical weapons, has resonated far beyond the war-scarredÃâà...
The Economist
April 13, 2018
So beams a manager at Chevron Phillips Chemical (CPC), a petrochemical company jointly owned by Chevron and Phillips 66, both American oil firms. She throws open her arms in a figurative embrace of a giant cracker (pictured) built by the firm in Baytown, a gritty part of Houston. The new plant turnsÃâà...
The Guardian
April 12, 2018
An estimated 500 people went to Syrian health facilities with “signs and symptoms consistent with exposure to toxic chemicals” after the attack on the rebel-held town of Douma at the weekend, according to reports passed to the World Health Organization. “WHO demands immediate unhindered access toÃâà...
Tampabay.com
April 12, 2018
Dr Christine Blanshard, Medical Director, and Lorna Wilkinson, director of nursing, left, make a statement outside the District Hospital in Salisbury, England, Tuesday April 10, 2018, giving an update on the condition of nerve agent poison victims Yulia and Sergei Skripal. Yulia Skripal has been dischargedÃâà...
BBC News
April 12, 2018
Activists and medics say dozens of people died when government aircraft dropped bombs filled with toxic chemicals on Douma on Saturday. President Assad's government denies being behind any chemical attack. The international Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW) is due toÃâà...
CNN
April 12, 2018
More than 70 died in basements they said, 43 of them from "symptoms consistent with exposure to highly toxic chemicals." Hamish de Bretton-Gordon, a chemical weapons expert who used to lead NATO's response team, said the symptoms he had seen suggested this could be a nerve agent but that it wasÃâà...
U.S. News & World Report
April 11, 2018
Legislators have resisted increasing agency budgets for the past year despite rising concern over the presence of little-studied industrial chemicals in water ... State regulators said in new court documents this week that the operators of a chemical plant near Fayetteville have lied for years about dischargingÃâà...
Lawfare (blog)
April 11, 2018
More than 60 people were killed and more than 500 others required medical attention after a brutal chemical attack that struck the rebel-held Syrian town of Douma, in the Eastern Ghouta area near Damascus, on Saturday night. A hospital and an air raid shelter that was housing civilians at the time of theÃâà...
The Register-Guard
April 11, 2018
Eugene residents now can learn the latest about hazardous chemical use by 35 businesses required to report extensive information under the city's 22-year-old toxics-right-to-know program. Specific details on those businesses' activities in 2017 are included in a series of summary reports that are nowÃâà...
Union of Concerned Scientists (blog)
April 4, 2018
Such coordination might have prevented the harmful exposure to chemicals endured by first responders on the scene in Crosby. The rule also requires that companies conduct analyses after accidents to determine their cause and what steps might be taken to prevent future incidents. For some facilitiesÃâà...
Science Daily
April 4, 2018
The first-ever chemical analysis of plastic collected from beaches around Lake Geneva detected cadmium, mercury and lead -- sometimes in very high concentrations that exceed the maximum permitted under EU law. The abundance of toxic chemicals that are now restricted or banned in plastic productionÃâà...
Medical Xpress
April 4, 2018
Manufacturers used PBDEs as the primary flame retardant chemical in furniture between 1975 and 2004 to comply with fire safety standards, with the highest use of these chemicals occurring in North America. Due to their persistence in the environment and evidence of human health effects, pentaBDE,Ãâà...
CNBC
April 4, 2018
The effective start date for the new charges will be revealed at a later time, though China's Ministry of Commerce said the tariffs are designed to target up to $50 billion of U.S. products annually. The 25 percent levy on U.S. imports includes products such as soybeans, cars and whisky, Beijing said.
Bennington Banner
April 4, 2018
"When we [told] the children of Vermont that we would protect them from toxic chemicals, we can't wait until `yes, we know they have been exposed,'" said Rep. George Till, D-Jericho, during the reading of proposed amendments to the bill, on the House floor Thursday. "We need to prevent the exposuresÃâà...
Rutland Herald
April 4, 2018
PFAS chemicals has been found in a well that serves the Rutland Airport Business Park in Clarendon, affecting several businesses including the Vermont Country Store. Affected businesses have been provided bottled water and a filtering device is slated to be installed. (Photo by Jon Olender).
Chemical Watch
April 4, 2018
An EPA spokesperson told Chemical Watch the agency is "currently considering" comments received in response to its proposal. These include both those saying "that EPA quickly finalise these actions, and comment suggesting that these be evaluated as part of the group of the first ten chemicalsÃâà...
BBC News
April 4, 2018
The world's chemical weapons watchdog is to meet in the Hague and discuss the poisoning of a former Russian spy and his daughter in the UK. The emergency session was called by Russia, who denies being behind the attack and wants the UK to share evidence. But the UK government says the onlyÃâà...
Healthline
April 4, 2018
If you're trying to eat healthy, you know to avoid many restaurant meals that are high in fat and sodium. But now a new study has found there's another potential risk to dining out: hormone-disrupting chemicals called phthalates. These endocrine-disrupting chemicals are used in many plastic materials andÃâà...
Motley Fool
March 23, 2018
Specifically, DowDuPont's three split-off companies will consist of the combined businesses of legacy Dow Chemical and DuPont in key areas. One will focus on materials science, which will include most of the basic chemicals and polymers that both companies produce. The agricultural business will bringÃâà...
