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WILMINGTON, Del.-Asbestos plaintiffs and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency are charging that bankrupt manufacturer W.R. Grace & Co. fraudulently shifted billions of dollars in assets out of the company in [...]

The SEC has charged Sol Berg, a former director of LeaRonal, and his ex-wife with illegal insider trading in LeaRonal stock before the company was acquired by Rohm and Haas [...]

Novartis and Ciba Specialty Chemicals have agreed to conduct a Superfund site cleanup in Toms River, NJ that federal officials estimate will cost more than $90 million. The agreement setdes [...]

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit has remanded a lower court's decision that ordered Hercules to pay nearly $100 million to clean up a former herbicide plant [...]

Two former facility operators at MacDermid (Waterbury, CT) have pled guilty to federal negligence charges stemming from an early 1990s scheme to mislead the Connecticut Department of Environmental Protection (DEP), [...]

Catalyst additives maker Intercat (Manasquan, NJ) says it has settled an $18-million lawsuit brought by ExxonMobil. The dispute involved the amount of royalties paid for Intercat additives and catalyst systems [...]

WASHINGTON, D.C. -- Morton International Inc., resolved charges for violating several environmental laws at its Moss Point, Miss., facility under a civil settlement and criminal plea agreement reached with the [...]

The U.S. Department of Justice filed a lawsuit last month on behalf of EPA against W.R. Grace, seeking access to property near Libby, MT. W.R. Grace has at times blocked [...]

Amcol International (Arlington Heights, IL) says it has received a request for additional information from the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) on the proposed sale of its Chemdal superabsorbent polymers business [...]

New York attorney general Eliot Spitzer has filed a state lawsuit against Diaz Chemical (Holley, NY), a specially intermediates producer, because of a January 5 chemical leak at the facility [...]

A management group has acquired Hickson DanChem (Danville, VA) from Arch Chemicals in a buyout funded by American Capital Strategies (Bethesda, MD). The acquired company, which has been renamed DanChem [...]

Ashland, DuPont, Exxon, Shell, and Unocal have appealed a California jury's verdict that they are liable for health problems among Lockheed Martin production employees exposed to their chemicals (CW, Aug. [...]