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Chemistry World
June 26, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
EPA under pressure over Enlist Duo herbicide A number of pesticides have recently been assessed for carcinogenicity by a World Health Organization agency.   |
Chemistry World
December 4, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Dow ditches older herbicides Dow will sell to Gowan its portfolio of dinitroaniline weedkillers, which came on the market in the 1960s. |
Chemistry World
October 22, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
EPA takes steps to prevent herbicide resistance in weeds The US Environmental Protection Agency has approved a combination herbicide designed to be used with genetically modified resistant crops. |
Chemistry World
September 22, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US drops restrictions on more GM seeds The US Department of Agriculture has approved Dow's 'Enlist' engineered corn and soybean seeds for commercial cultivation without special authorization. |
Chemistry World
March 5, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Butterfly population collapse prompts lawsuit against EPA The US Environmental Protection Agency is being accused of ignoring evidence that the herbicide glyphosate poses a serious threat to dwindling monarch butterfly populations. |
Chemistry World
June 30, 2010
Rebecca Trager |
EPA's oversight of nanomaterials questioned The US Government Accountability Office is warning that nanomaterials may be entering the market without adequate risk assessment by the US Environmental Protection Agency. |
Chemistry World
September 16, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Court rejects US approval of sulfoxaflor pesticide A US federal appeals court has overturned the Environmental Protection Agency's approval of sulfoxaflor, an insecticide that acts on the same insect receptors as neonicotinoids. |
Chemistry World
September 15, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
US bid to control power plant emissions challenged The governors of 15 US states have joined together to question the legality of the US Environmental Protection Agency's recently proposed climate rule to limit carbon emissions from the country's existing power plants. |
Chemistry World
October 1, 2014
Phillip Broadwith |
Dow's $1bn price-fixing fine upheld A US court has upheld a jury's award of over $1 billion in damages to customers of Dow Chemical's polyurethane constituents and materials business. |
Chemistry World
March 6, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Bush-era environmental regulations challenged After less than a month in charge, the Obama administration is distinguishing itself from the policies of Bush in many areas affecting public health and the environment. |
Chemistry World
August 21, 2013
Rebecca Trager |
EPA pushes pesticide labels to protect bees The US Environmental Protection Agency has developed new pesticide labels that prohibit the use of some neonicotinoid products where bees are present in an effort to protect the health of pollinators. |
Chemistry World
September 10, 2015
Rebecca Trager |
Glyphosate to be labelled a carcinogen in California California's announcement follows a conclusion by the World Health Organization's International Agency for Research on Cancer in March that the herbicide glyphosate is a probable human carcinogen. |
Registered Rep.
August 1, 2008 |
Human Life: Do We Have a Bidder? Five years ago, an individual life was worth almost $1 million more than it is today. The EPA uses this data to determine what regulations are the most cost-effective, and if the price of a life does not exceed the cost of enforcing a particular regulation that will save it, the regs are out. |
Chemistry World
May 20, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
EPA delays boiler and incinerator emissions rules The US Environmental Protection Agency has indefinitely delayed rules governing emission of toxic air pollutants from boilers and certain solid waste incinerators at chemical plants and other major industrial facilities. |
Chemistry World
March 1, 2013
Andrew Turley |
Dow rapped for $1bn tax scheme A US federal court has rejected two 'tax shelter transactions' by Dow -- designed to create $1 billion in deductions -- and imposed penalties on the firm. |
Chemistry World
April 8, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
US Lawmakers Subpoena EPA Over Global Warming A key US congressional committee has slapped the Environmental Protection Agency with a subpoena for documents pertaining to global warming. |
Chemistry World
October 23, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
US tightens lead emissions standard The amount of lead allowed in US air has been slashed tenfold by the Environmental Protection Agency: the first cut in thirty years. |
Chemistry World
November 3, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
First tests for pesticide endocrine effects in US The EPA has requested that manufacturers screen seven compounds under this first round, including atrazine - a widely used herbicide that may be associated with birth defects and other problems. |
Chemistry World
May 28, 2008
Rebecca Trager |
Changes to US chemical review procedures flawed Recent changes to the US Environmental Protection Agency's (EPA) main tool for assessing the health effects of chemicals could significantly lengthen the time needed to review them, a congressional watchdog has warned. |
InternetNews
June 29, 2005
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Stocks Stall At Resistance The Dow and Nasdaq paused at some key levels Wednesday. |
Chemistry World
August 7, 2006
Katharine Sanderson |
US Releases Pesticide Review The US environmental protection agency has outlawed agricultural use of the pesticides lindane and carbofuran, following 10 years of scrutiny. |
Reason
July 2002
Mike Lynch |
Green Grants The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is legendary for tangling up businesses in red tape. Yet when it comes to passing out millions in taxpayer money, it exhibits a casual, devil-may-care attitude. |
The Motley Fool
December 9, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Dow's Cost-Cutting Chemistry Despite axing 5,000 workers, the chemical maker still merits attention. |
Scientific American
July 2007
Charles Q. Choi |
Warming to Law After the U.S. Supreme Court ruling, how stiff will greenhouse gas regulations be? |
Chemistry World
May 13, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
EPA improves embattled chemical assessment program The US Environmental Protection Agency has made 'substantial improvements' to its program to assess the health hazards posed to people by pollution, but the National Research Council is urging further reforms in a new report. |
The Motley Fool
December 7, 2007
David Lee Smith |
Dow Chemical's Not a Dazzler Yet Dow Chemical is planning a cost-reduction effort that will involve shutting down a number of plants and laying off about 1,000 employees, but the company's direction remains a mystery. |
Chemistry World
October 13, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
Formaldehyde politics block research chief joining EPA Louisiana Republican Senator David Vitter is blocking Paul Anastas' nomination because he wants the EPA to submit to a review of its formaldehyde risk assessment by the US National Academy of Sciences. |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2014
Rebecca Trager |
EPA criticized over asbestos clean-up research The US Environmental Protection Agency's internal watchdog has found that the agency's costly and time-consuming experiments on alternative asbestos control methods lacked effective oversight and threatened human health. |
Chemistry World
September 16, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
US job concerns hamper environmental rules Economic woes and pressure to create jobs in the US are impeding environmental regulation, resulting in President Obama being rebuked by traditional allies and applauded by political opponents. |
InternetNews
August 24, 2005
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Support Gives Way The Dow and S&P are threatening to go into free fall here. |
The Motley Fool
February 13, 2007
Selena Maranjian |
Who's in "The Dow"? The Dow is an average based on the stock prices of 30 companies. |
The Motley Fool
February 15, 2007
Matt Koppenheffer |
Quick Take: Simmer Down, Dow The rising Dow meant everything for Alcoa shareholders (and maybe something for people trading Dow futures), but nothing for the rest of us. |
InternetNews
May 12, 2005
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Indexes Hang On -- Barely The Dow and S&P need to turn up soon; they have pulled back as far as they can without giving up their recent downtrend line breakouts. |
InternetNews
September 21, 2005
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Dow, Nasdaq On Support The Dow and the Nasdaq have hope, but the S&P breaks down. |
Science News
September 16, 2006 |
Science Safari: Sustainable Design Competition The U.S. EPA is offering college professors and their students an opportunity to turn ideas into reality through its P3 (People, Prosperity and the Planet) grants competition. EPA's P3 is a student design competition for sustainability that is now in its third year. |
The Motley Fool
August 23, 2004 |
Percentages, Not Points Trust in the long-term upward trend of the market, look for bargains amid downturns, and focus on percentages rather than points. |
Fast Company
June 1, 2007
Daniel C. Esty |
Final Word The Supreme Court weighs in on global warming. |
Chemistry World
March 18, 2009
Sean Milmo |
Merger goes ahead as Dow, Rohm and Haas settle dispute The takeover, which will create the world's largest advanced materials and specialty chemicals business, was initially agreed in July last year and will now go ahead |
Chemistry World
October 2, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
EPA issues nanotechnology research strategy Under EPA's new plan, the agency is focusing its research on seven manufactured nanomaterial types, which may require safety decisions. |
IndustryWeek
November 1, 2010 |
Nanotechnology Presents Regulatory Mess Manufacturers producing or utilizing nanomaterials face a tangled web of proposed safety and environmental regulations. |
Information Today
February 21, 2006
Barbie E. Keiser |
Will Budget Constraints Sound a Death Knell for EPA Libraries? President Bush's American Competitive Initiative would cut $2 million that supports a network of 27 libraries. How will the work of the libraries' staffs change if these proposed budget cuts are approved? |
Information Today
June 20, 2011 |
EPA Releases Two New Databases With Chemical Toxicity and Exposure Data The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has announced the release of two databases that make it easier to find data about chemicals. |
Chemistry World
May 18, 2010
Sarah Houlton |
EPA and pharma join forces The US Environmental Protection Agency is working with pharmaceutical companies to improve its ToxCast toxicity prediction tool. |
Scientific American
August 14, 2006
Paul Raeburn |
After 25 Years, the EPA Still Won't Ban a Risky Pesticide Attempts to ban the household use of the insecticide dichlorvos, or DDVP, have flopped, despite safety concerns since the 1970s. |
Chemistry World
July 15, 2011
Rebecca Trager |
EPA Under Fire Over Drinking Water Contaminants The US Environmental Protection Agency has not taken adequate steps to assure the safety of public drinking water because of 'systemic limitations' and politicisation. |
InternetNews
April 4, 2005
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Stocks Struggle to Find Support It's not pretty, but the Dow and S&P have a chance. |
Chemistry World
January 29, 2009
Rebecca Trager |
EPA's chemical evaluation process 'high-risk' The US government's 32-year-old law regulating chemical safety needs a complete overhaul, according to Congress' investigative arm |
The Motley Fool
December 29, 2008
David Lee Smith |
Dow Chemical's Kuwait Deal Goes Kaboom Will Dow Chemical continue to chase Rohm & Haas now that its Kuwait deal has fizzled? |
The Motley Fool
November 28, 2010 |
Should You Care About the Dow? Surely you've tuned into the news lately, right? Well, how did the Dow Jones Industrials fare? Did you look? Did you see? Did you care? |
InternetNews
January 26, 2005
Paul Shread |
Technical Analysis: Bears Remain in Control The Dow and S&P stall at resistance once again. |
