updated Wed. April 18, 2018
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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 ... scientists
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ... OPCW
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 ...
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 ... chemist
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 ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 ofÃÂ ...
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 barbaricÃÂ ...
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 ButylÃÂ ...
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 capabilityÃÂ ...
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-scarredÃÂ ...
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 turnsÃÂ ...
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 toÃÂ ...
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 dischargedÃÂ ...
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 toÃÂ ...
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 wasÃÂ ...
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 dischargingÃÂ ...
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 theÃÂ ...
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 nowÃÂ ...
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 facilitiesÃÂ ...
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 productionÃÂ ...
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,ÃÂ ...
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 exposuresÃÂ ...
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 chemicalsÃÂ ...
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 onlyÃÂ ...
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 andÃÂ ...
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 bringÃÂ ...
Stuff.co.nz
March 23, 2018
An investigation has begun into how toxic chemicals got into the Bulls water supply, after they were found by Defence Force testing. The Bulls water supply was tested for the group of chemicals associated with contaminated drinking water at properties near Ohakea airbase, said Defence Force seniorÃÂ ...
MIT News
March 23, 2018
As a newly tenured faculty member in MIT's Department of Chemical Engineering, Roman now tries to guide his students toward their own tipping points. “It's amazing to see it ... One key area of research is the conversion of biomass components, such as lignin, into fuels and chemicals. One of the biggestÃÂ ...
Science Daily
March 22, 2018
Subsequently, other researchers began looking into the formation mechanism from Zantac-like chemicals. "They decided that it was monochloramine that was responsible in contrast to several practical studies showing that minimizing dichloramine in real recycled wastewater minimizes NDMA formation,"ÃÂ ...
Science Magazine
March 22, 2018
Phosphoric acid is produced on a massive scale for fertilizer by treating phosphate rock with sulfuric acid. In contrast, preparation of more elaborate phosphorus compounds used in chemical catalysis, pharmaceutical, and battery applications requires laborious generation and chlorination of elemental phosphorus. GeesonÃÂ ...
Popular Science
March 21, 2018
Traditional chemical relaxers permanently break those bonds in a way that lets them re-form into permanent straightness, so it lasts until hair grows out. So-called keratin treatments offer a happy medium of sorts; stylists coat hair with a strong conditioner spiked with chemicals, then flat iron it. The bondsÃÂ ...
Brownsville Herald
March 17, 2018
... a Texas chemical plant, officials say. Hood County Fire Marshal Ray Wilson said there was a pause in the search at the Tri-Chem Industries plant Friday afternoon while crews evaluated the mixtures of chemicals that had spilled at the plant in Cresson, located 50 miles (80 kilometers) southwest of Dallas.
Valley morning Star
March 17, 2018
Cornett says investigators believe the fire at Tri-Chem Industries was sparked when a worker dragged his foot along the floor of the plant while chemicals were being mixed. He says the worker caught fire from his waist up and was airlifted with critical burn injuries to a hospital in Dallas, about 50 miles (80ÃÂ ...
Science Daily
March 17, 2018
This offers an opportunity to measure and study chemicals at extremely sensitive levels but researchers lack the tools, like lasers and detectors, needed to operate within the mid-infrared. Recently, there's been a push to develop new tools to help see and measure these chemical compounds in greaterÃÂ ...
Richmond.com
March 17, 2018
Federal agents raided the AdvanSix chemical plant in Hopewell on Tuesday, with a spokeswoman for the company saying the swarm of police and ... In 2013, Honeywell Resins and Chemicals agreed to pay a $3 million fine for Clean Air Act violations and improve air pollution controls at the site. In 2015ÃÂ ...
The Hill
March 17, 2018
A panel of three federal judges appeared skeptical at times on Friday in questioning attorneys representing environmentalists and Democratic states that are challenging the Trump administration's ongoing delay of a major chemical plant safety rule. Two of the judges in the panel from the Court of AppealsÃÂ ...
Dallas News
March 17, 2018
Investigators believe that the explosion at the plant, which opened about a year ago and contained a number of toxic and flammable chemicals, may have been sparked by static electricity from a worker dragging his foot on the floor. The search for Mitchell will continue Saturday, Hood County Fire MarshalÃÂ ...
Aljazeera.com
March 17, 2018
An arms control treaty - the Chemical Weapons Convention - was signed more than 20 years ago to outlaw the production, stockpiling and use of chemical weapons. One hundred ninety-two countries signed and agreed to the terms in 1997. Toxic chemical substances are subject to different regulations.
13WHAM-TV
March 15, 2018
The DEC says the chemical is trichloroethylene, or TCE. It's a solvent used for cleaning machines. It was discovered during construction at the site in 2012, and the DEC says it has been in the soil for decades. Qualitrol has been working to clean it up. “The primary concern is soil vapor associated with TCE,” said BernetteÃÂ ...
U.S. News & World Report
March 15, 2018
UK, U.S., France, Germany Jointly Condemn Chemical Attack on Ex-Spy ... LONDON (Reuters) - The leaders of France, Germany, Britain and the United States issued a joint statement on Thursday condemning a chemical attack on a Russian former double agent in England and blaming Moscow for it.
BBC News
March 15, 2018
The White House is supporting the UK's decision to expel 23 Russian diplomats in the wake of the chemical attack in Salisbury. Spokeswoman Sarah Sanders said the US stood "in solidarity" with the UK and called Theresa May's move "a just response". Former spy Sergei Skripal and his daughter YuliaÃÂ ...
Science Daily
March 15, 2018
The artificial cells also contain enzymes that work in concert with the biological cell to produce new chemicals. In the proof-of-concept experiment, the artificial cell systems produced a fluorescent chemical that allowed the researchers to confirm all was working as expected. Lead researcher Professor OscarÃÂ ...
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