All articles by Rebecca Trager – Page 45
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BusinessArkema invests in speciality chemicals
Company will expand Asian plants producing bio-based polyamide, thiochemicals and photocured resins
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NewsScience community still wary as Trump's travel ban partially reinstated
Supreme court ruling allows entry by students, professors and lecturers from six targeted muslim-majority nations
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NewsUS environment agency delivers on chemical reform
One year after Obama enacted law to modernise chemical regulation the EPA has met its deadlines and issued the required rules
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NewsCancer committee under siege over glyphosate
US chemical industry group and Monsanto accuse agency of withholding information showing no link between glyphosate and cancer
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NewsInternational action urged on endocrine disrupting antibacterials
More than 200 scientists call for restrictions on triclosan and triclocarban use and production
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NewsPerfluorinated chemicals in drinking water of 15 million Americans
Compounds found in 162 water systems from industrial plants, military bases and fire fighter training sites
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NewsTrump keeps NIH director on despite political pressure
Francis Collins will stay on after effort to oust him over support for embryonic stem cell research
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BusinessUS supreme court limits patent rights
Biotech industry is concerned that ruling will hit small companies
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BusinessDow will face dioxin suit
US appeals court rules property owners have a valid case over soil contamination
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NewsOlder researchers crowding out younger ones
Over three decades biomedical grants for basic science have shrunk for young group leaders in the US
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NewsFrozen out Chemical Safety Board puts in own budget request
Trump’s plans to phase out US safety agency lead it to put in a plea for funding to Congress
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NewsScare leads Nasa to supply Virginia town with drinking water
Chincoteague homes being supplied with water after high levels of fluorinated chemicals were detected in space agency’s wells
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BusinessGE accused of exposing workers to toxic chemicals
Canadian union says dangerous compounds were used without proper worker protection
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NewsTrump budget decried as an 'assault on science'
Dramatic cuts to key US science agencies and research programmes proposed again, but Congress will have the last word
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NewsPredicting which undergrads will succeed in chemistry
So-called ‘abstraction learners’ consistently outperform those that depend on memory in introductory and higher-level chemistry courses
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NewsCanada’s research universities under pressure to diversify
Only 30% of Canada Research Chairs are women and universities will see funding pulled if things don’t improve
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NewsScience march support varies by political party, age
In the US majority of Democrats back the March for Science while the reverse was true for Republicans
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BusinessUS Steel plant spills chromium into waterway
Pipe failure releases 135kg of hexavalent chromium into Lake Michigan tributary
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BusinessJ&J fights talc cancer claims
Firm has lost several court cases linking talc to ovarian cancer, but vows to appeal