A US federal appeals court upheld a multibillion-dollar settlement between BP and the coastal residents and businesses hit by the company's massive Gulf of Mexico oil spill in 2010. The British energy giant reached a $7.8 billion ...
Tags: Oil, Metallurgy, Mineral, Energy
The Canadian Food Inspection Agency (CFIA) received an "adequate" rating – the lowest passing grade – in the latest audit by the U.S. government to determine its equivalency on food safety standards, according to documents ...
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Consumers whose individual health insurance policies have been cancelled for failing to meet the minimum requirements of the Affordable Care Act may now apply for a "hardship exemption," Obama administration officials announced late ...
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Specialty chemicals company Archroma has opened its first sustainable effluent treatment (SET) facility at its textile chemical site in Jamshoro, Pakistan. With an investment of PKR371m (US$3.5m), the facility is Archroma's biggest-ever ...
Tags: sustainable water, environment
A study says 1-in-4 U.S. adults reports feeling "extreme stress" this time of year, but a childhood expert suggests ways to develop holiday resilience. Nefertiti Bruce, early childhood specialist and national trainer at the Devereux ...
InterOil Corporation (NYSE: IOC; POMSoX: IOC) is pleased to announce that the PNG Department of Petroleum and Energy has approved the Company's application for Petroleum Retention License 39, which includes the Triceratops discovery. ...
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At an extraordinary general meeting shareholders in the Canadian OSB manufacturer Ainsworth Engineered approved the takeover by Louisiana-Pacific agreed on 4 September. On 31 October, the Supreme Court of British Columbia also approved the ...
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The Gulf of Mexico Research Initiative (GoMRI) announced today that it plans to award up to $105 million to support research consortia investigating the effect, and the potential associated impact, of hydrocarbon releases on the environment ...
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The REACH Regulation requests ECHA to submit the annual update of CoRAP for the Member States to consider. The plan addresses substances that are suspected of posing risks to human health or the environment. The substance evaluation ...
Among the different types of dairy products consumed daily, milk is one of the most significant products which are consumed by people all over the world. Today there are various milk processing plants to meet the growing demands of milk. ...
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The Economic and Commercial Office of the Embassy of China in Peru has issued a clarification on concerns raised by Peru's Gamarra traders about dumping of clothing by China. In recent years, 'Made-in-China' goods have proven to have good ...
Braskem, the largest producer of resins in the Americas, in response to the letter received from the Brazilian Securities and Exchange Commission (CVM), seeking clarification on the report in the Valor Econômico newspaper about its ...
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With fuel costs rising to all-time highs throughout the world, itâEUR(TM)s the right time to investment in bulk fueling storage tank systems. It is a financially prudent and an economical option to conform to. In ...
Good job, the American Trucking Associations (ATA) told the Federal Motor Carrier Safety Administration (FMCSA) today. A recent ruling by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the District of Columbia Circuit vacated the 30-minute break ...
Russian steelmaker MMK's Turkey-based subsidiary MMK Metalurji has announced that its offer of a 10 percent increase in wages notified to Turkish labor union Çelik-İş has expired as of August 2. After the labor union ...
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