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Martek, Dow AgroSciences to team on canola seed

May 30, 2008
According to the Associated Press, Dow AgroSciences LLC and Martek Biosciences Corp. said recently that they have teamed up to jointly develop and commercialize a canola seed that produces the
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Indian police hold 80 Bhopal gas leak protesters

May 7, 2008
According to the Associated Press, police detained 80 people who walked nearly 500 miles from the site of a catastrophic 1984 gas leak in central India to protest outside
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Chemical maker moving headquarters to Baton Rouge

May 5, 2008
The Associated Press is reporting that specialty chemical maker Albemarle Corp. is moving its headquarters from Richmond, Va., to Baton Rouge, Gov. Bobby Jindal announced recently.Albemarle already employs several hundred
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Democrats want plastics chemical banned from kids'' products

May 1, 2008
According to the Associated Press, a bill introduced by Senate Democrats seeks to ban manufacturers from using a potentially unsafe chemical common in baby bottles, toys and other children''s products.The
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Plaintiffs Appeal DuPont Ruling

March 12, 2008
According to the Associated press, a group of West Virginians who won nearly $400 million in damages in a DuPont pollution case are now asking the state Supreme Court for
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NYC Court Rejects Agent Orange Claims

February 25, 2008
According to the Associated Press, a federal appeals court recently rejected an effort by Vietnamese victims of Agent Orange to reinstate claims that U.S. companies committed war crimes by making
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Court OKs Class-Action in Dow Case

January 28, 2008
The Associated Press has reported that the Michigan Court of Appeals has signed off on giving residents class-action status in their lawsuit against Dow Chemical Co. over dioxin contamination.About 2,000
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Eastman Chemical sells European plants to Indorama for $330 million

January 7, 2008
Coating, plastics and chemical maker Eastman Chemical Co. has agreed to sell two European plants to Indonesia''s Indorama Group for about $330 million, the Associated Press reports. The deal is
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Dow Chemical to cut 1,000 jobs

December 10, 2007
Dow Chemical Co. is cutting 1,000 jobs, or about 2.3 percent of its workforce, as part of a plan to rid itself of underperforming businesses and boost its global efficiency,
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EU fines four chemical companies $350 million for running rubber

December 10, 2007
European Union regulators levied about $350 million in fines against DuPont and three other chemical companies for fixing the price of a type of rubber used to make shoe soles,
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