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Boehner, legislators meeting with Colombian president to discuss trade agreement

Jessica Alba keeps it 'Honest' with e-commerce business selling eco-friendly family products

EPA Research Chief Paul Anastas Announces Plan To Step Down

OSHA Emphasis Program Will Protect Chemical Plant Workers

OMB reviews draft rule widening industry disclosure requirements

Audit faults EPA efforts to assess health risks

INSIDE VIEW '12: SOCMA to shift focus from advocate to educate

DHS Misled Congress About Chemical Facility Program, Top Republican Says

People on the move; outsourcing jobs

SOCMA Launches Online Directory

The End of the International Year of Chemistry?

Use of Nanotechnology in Pharma Industry Discussed in Harvard-BASF Symposium

Biopharma: Regulatory pressures trigger a drop in venture capital investments, report finds

Obama Signs Free Trade Pacts

Colombia hails signing of free trade deal with U.S.

Dow Signs Shareholders' Agreement with Saudi Aramco

FDA takes GMP action against US & Chinese drugmakers

Senate Approves Year of Chemistry

LANXESS close to bio-isobutanol supply deal wth Gevo

Greens See Politics Trumping Science as EPA Delays Chemical Assessment

NAM/IW Q3 Survey: Manufacturer Outlook Still Positive, But Optimism Wanes

DREVNA: Cutting rules would spark economic growth

Dow Chemical CEO Andrew Liveris Shares Ideas on How to Fix the Economy

Specialty Chemicals - A Global Market Overview

Industry wary of EPA's proposed use of FIFRA section 6 to get nanopesticide data

Iofina Chemical Appoints Viachem as Exclusive Chloramine-T Marketer

DHS Proposes Program to Regulate Sale for Ammonium Nitrate

Senate Panel Backs Renewal of Chemical Security Rules

Chemical industry expansion report calls for training, marketing

Cheap Shale Gas Means Record U.S. Chemical Industry Growth

Senate Panel Backs Renewal of Chemical Security Rules

Trade deals on hold until September as Congress leaves town

EPA Publishes Rule to Improve Reporting of Chemical Information

Inventory Update Reporting (IUR) Final Rule Expected in August

US debt limit crisis threatens chemicals, other manufacturing

Preventing Disaster

DHS Revises Tiering Assignments Under Chemical-Site Security Measures

Free Trade Deals: Lobbying Fever Foreshadows Winners, Losers

Albemarle Board of Directors Elects Luke Kissam CEO

Lonza to acquire Arch Chemicals to create the world's leading Microbial Control business

Chemical Facility Security Program Receives Bipartisan Endorsement

Liveris Named Co-Chair of U.S. President Obama's Newly Formed Advanced Manufacturing Partnership

Green Chemical Industry to Soar to $98.5 Billion by 2020

First Michelin Supplier Award for LANXESS

Polypore, Albemarle Lead Specialty Chemical Rebound

EPA Puts Chemical Databases Online

Baker Hughes Introduces State-of-the-Art Vessel to its Global Deepwater Fleet

Ashland to buy specialty chemical maker ISP for $3.2 billion

U.S. House Panel Passes CFATS Extension

Dow Chemical creates energy from recycled plastics, environmental questions raised

Solvay and EWHA Womans University set up joint Research & Development Center on University Campus

Potential Loss of Democrats' Support Could Stall Chemical Security Bill

GFS Receives OCTC Outstanding Achievement Award for Safety and Security

Cambridge Major Laboratories Announces Successful FDA Inspection and First Commercial Launch at New Facility

BASF Signals Outlook Has Brightened, Bolstering Pricing Power

Strem Chemicals president wins public service award

Senstar Incorporated Joins Society Of Chemical Manufacturers And Affiliates (SOCMA)

M&A reshapes petrochemicals

SIEMENS Introduces Demand Flow^TM

LANXESS and its employees to support Japan relief effort

Lonza Signs Development and Manufacturing Agreement with Emerging Biotech Company Athera

BASF and Evolva enter into a collaboration to develop compounds applied to protect crops

LANXESS to expand global production network for high-tech plastics

BASF and Evolva enter into a collaboration to develop compounds applied to protect crops

EPA Declines Five Confidentiality Claims Under TSCA

InformexUSA Announces 'Profiles in Sustainability' Winners for 2011

LANXESS invests EUR 40 million in Krefeld-Uerdingen site

Fujifilm Imaging Colorants, Inc. Receives National Performance Improvement Honor

ChemDesign Receives National Educational Outreach Honor from SOCMAs

Ash Stevens’ Dr. Stephen A. Munk Joins SOCMA’s Board of Governors

EU Seeks Stakeholder Comment on REACH

CFATS expected to change with new Congress

NGO criticises "slow pace" of US EPA assessments

EPA to hold information event on new electronic reporting tool

EPA policy chief steps down

Chemical M&A in 2010 Totals $27.6 Billion So Far; Gathering Pace

Rate of REACH registrations continues to rise sharply

Perry lead in Texas governor race may prolong chem emissions feud

With Election Day past, now act on manufacturing strategy

Legislating an Incentive

Canada adds four chemicals to toxic substances list

EPA to Take Action on Three Chemicals

Expansion in U.S. manufacturing in October

Scientists Find Bisphenol A In U.S. Food

Environmental leaders testify in N.J. to support 'Safe Chemicals' bill

Doctors Favor Reach-Style Regulation at Senate Hearing

Living in Texas as neighbors with big industry

Companies graded on getting chemical BPA out of cans

Companies graded on getting chemical BPA out of cans

Chemical industry wary of extended REACH

Industrial Biotech: Industry Demands More Ambition from Regulators (with video interview of DSM's Stephan Tanda)

Japan's chemical industry shifts to prepare for a new reality

Debunking The Detection Limit Myth

M&A Expected to Continue Rising Through Year-End

Industries heat up over boiler rules

Debunking The Detection Limit Myth

Manufacturers Will Continue to Expand, But at Slower Pace

A Balanced Diet For The Chemical Industry

Small, Midsize Manufacturers to Boost Hiring

The Dangers of a Food Chemical: New Evidence Against BPA

SAICM calls for nominations of emerging issues for ICCM3

18 Senate Democrats Join GOP in Assault on EPA's Boiler Proposal

Schwarzenegger signs environmental bills

House slaps China on currency policy, deepening trade dispute

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New chemical rules to have broad impact

Canada issues notices for 17 substances in Batch 9 of Challenge Program

US R&D tax credit: SOCMA to Me

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US chem sector sees itself as safer nine years after 9/11

US Specialty Chemical Makers Ask for Legislative Freeze

Obama Backs R&D Tax Credit

SOCMA President to Lead ChemOutsourcing Keynote Panel on API Supply Base on Wednesday, Sept 15 at NJ Show

Policing The Pharma Supply Chain

Formaldehyde In Clothing

In Feast of Data on BPA Plastic, No Final Answer