All North America articles – Page 34
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NewsRepublican gains may spur US chemical rules reform
Industry groups suggest new Congress will clear the way for modernisation of 40-year-old legislation
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700 US troops report possible chemical agent exposure
Pentagon reveals hundreds of troops who fought in Iraq and Afghanistan may have been exposed to chemical weapons
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NewsUS states reject GM labelling laws
Oregon and Colorado vote against labelling genetically modified produce, after multimillion dollar campaigns by food companies
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Nuclear chief heads back to academia
US Nuclear Regulatory Commission’s chairman resigns, saying she has achieved her mission of ‘righting the ship’
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Next milestone in US HCFC phase out
Ozone-depleting refrigerants will be phased out by 2020 under new rules
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NewsUS agency fast-tracks Ebola vaccine development
Health and Human Services invests almost $6 million to ready an Ebola vaccine candidate for clinical trials, meanwhile GSK says its vaccine is progressing at an ‘unprecedented rate’
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NewsFree legal help for embattled US scientists
Pro bono effort to defend government and university scientists from ‘harassment campaigns’ has been launched
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NewsResearch to make pathogens more dangerous halted
US agencies temporarily suspend funding certain ‘gain-of-function’ research until new government policy is in place
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NewsUCLA spent $4.5 million on legal costs in Sangji case
University defends spending in case brought against chemistry professor, highlighting $20 million investment in lab safety
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NewsCannabis chemists look for professional recognition
The American Chemical Society is being petitioned to form a division to help develop standards in the field
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NewsQuotas proposed to back younger US researchers
Legislator wants National Institutes of Health to reduce median age of first-time grantees to 38 by 2025
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NewsPyrolysis touted as billion dollar US industry
Rapid deployment of plastics-to-oil could add $9 billion to America’s economy and 40,000 jobs
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US ramps up rare diseases research
National Institutes of Health spends $29 million to study more than 200 rare diseases
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NewsWorld’s first carbon capture coal plant opens
A $1.4 billion retrofit of a Canadian power station will mean 1 million tonnes of carbon dioxide is captured per year
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NewsLos Alamos lab’s safety lapses faulted for radioactive leak
Audit finds lab’s poor safety likely to be at blame for a transuranic waste leak that closed US’s only permanent nuclear waste repository
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NewsUS research agencies in limbo
A question mark remains over funding for NIH and other science agencies as new fiscal year begins without proper budgets
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NewsEPA criticised over asbestos clean-up research
Watchdog faults US Environmental Protection Agency for lax oversight of experiments involving asbestos
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Researcher imprisoned for poisoning ex-lover
Renowned cancer researcher gets 10 years in prison for using antifreeze chemical ethylene glycol as a deadly weapon
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NewsBacklash as EPA considers fracking chemicals disclosure rules
EPA has been warned that forcing greater transparency could jeopardise trade secrets
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NewsWhite House tightens oversight of dangerous studies
New rules governing so-called ‘dual use’ research will take effect in a year, but there is concern that they will stymie critical studies