All North America articles – Page 18
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NewsWhat’s happening at the Arkema chemical plant
Why chemicals at the plant devastated by hurricane Harvey have ignited
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NewsAAAS ‘highly concerned’ by Trump’s disregard for science advice
World’s largest scientific society worried by Trump administration’s disbanding of climate assessment advisory panel
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NewsChemical safety head ‘cautiously optimistic’ her agency will be saved
Chair of the US Chemical Safety Board is hopeful that Congress will stop Trump from dropping it
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NewsWhite House lays out longer term R&D priorities
Trump administration says military superiority, prosperity, energy dominance and health deserve ‘special focus’ in R&D budgets
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BusinessChemical and pharma bosses quit US manufacturing council
President Trump disbands the group after multiple advisers resign in protest against his stance on racism
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NewsUS chemical lobby welcomes congressional probe of cancer research agency
House panel requests an NIH briefing about why it didn’t publish glyphosate study results
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NewsEPA clears chemicals backlog
Mixed reaction to US agency’s announcement that it has ‘eliminated’ the logjam of 600 new chemicals undergoing review
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News40,000 pounds of meth precursor seized from ship in Mexico
720 drums of chemical phenyl acetic acid taken off cargo ship from China
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BusinessGenesis Energy to buy alkali business from Tronox
Tronox to spend proceeds on Cristal purchase
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BusinessMidwest Fertilizer to build $2.8bn manufacturing plant
Domestic facility will reduce imports
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BusinessLyondellBasell to build world’s largest propylene oxide plant
Petrochemical giant gets go-ahead for most expensive project to date
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BusinessNovartis coasts towards first CAR-T approval
Unanimous recommendation for CTL019 ahead of October decision builds confidence in T-cell genetic reprogramming
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NewsUS to clean-up race test chemical weapon relics on Panama island
Legacy mustard gas weapons from second world war will be disposed of in September
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ResearchDietary supplement poisoning every 24 minutes in the US
275,000 calls concerning supplements were made to poison centres between 2002 and 2012
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NewsGlobal movement on endocrine disruptors
National Academies warns endocrine active chemicals may be harmful at lower doses than the US currently tests for
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NewsUS State Department loses its science adviser
Chemist Vaughan Turekian to head up the US National Academies’ sustainability programme after Trump’s neglect of science posts
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BusinessFDA approves first sickle cell drug in almost two decades
Glutamine-based drug is the first approved for children over 5
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NewsParental pressures contribute to leaky pipeline in US
Survey suggests being a postdoc is ‘not compatible’ with becoming a parent