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Citizen and environmental groups say they plan to call for tougher air-pollution regulation of the oil and gas industry when the Environmental Protection Agency holds two public meetings on the issue this week. The agency is holding the meetings in Denver and Arlington, Texas, as ...
ECONOMIC REPORTS Data this week includes the Institute for Supply Management manufacturing index for July and construction spending for June (Monday); personal income and spending for June, pending home sales for June and factory orders for June (Tuesday); ADP employment for July ...
OTTAWA Prices for Canadian factory products and the cost of materials used to make them fell in June, Statistics Canada reported Thursday. The federal agency s industrial product price index (IPPI) declined 0.9% during the month, led by petroleum and metals. June s decline ...
Soldiers and emergency workers are still struggling to retrieve the thousands of chemical-filled barrels that were swept into a major river by rain-triggered floods in northeast China's Jilin Province. Some 3,000 chemical-filled barrels and 4,000 empty ones fell into the Songhua ...
Fire investigators will wait until Monday to begin sifting through the debris of an Athens chemical plant destroyed by fire Wednesday. "We're going to let it cool over the weekend. The investigation will begin Monday at 7:30 a.m.," said Athens-Clarke fire inspector Harold ...
CHILD health advocates yesterday called on the government to impose a ban on the use of the toxic chemical bisphenol A (BPA) in consumer products. The industrial chemical BPA is found to disrupt the effects of estrogen in the developing brain. It is widely used in food cans, ...
PetroChina has entered into a contract with Russia's Rosneft on purchasing ESPO (Eastern Siberian Pacific Ocean) Blend crude, a source Rosneft said but declined to reveal contract period and pricing formula. The supply of ESPO blend crude was stable in the spot market at present, ...
Australia's Liquefied Natural Gas Limited has been holding talks with local coal seam gas supplier Bow Energy on a tie-up for its stalled LNG project at Fisherman's Landing, near Gladstone in the eastern state of Queensland, LNGL said in a statement Monday. The company had ...
Some aggressive buying of the August, September and Winter 10 contracts by a couple of players in the UK gas market pushed up prices Monday morning despite bearish signals from a physically well-supplied pipeline network. The market opened with falling prices. Winter 10, which ...
US congressional leaders have asked the Environmental Protection Agency to answer a litany of questions regarding a possible increase in the amount of ethanol used in conventional vehicles. Their bipartisan concerns over a possible ethanol-gasoline blend hike were voiced in a ...
South Korea's Daewoo Shipbuilding and Marine Engineering said Monday it had won contracts to build oil facilities worth about $2.15 billion. Under a $1.8 billion deal with a South African oil company, Daewoo Shipbuilding will build a floating production, storage and offloading ...
BP is still carrying out its preparations for drilling a deepwater well offshore Libya in the Mediterranean despite calls from the Italian government for a drilling moratorium following the Gulf of Mexico oil spill, BP said Monday. Italian environment minister Stefania Prestigiac...
Huntsman Corp. has agreed to acquire the chemicals business of Indian company Laffans Petrochemicals Ltd. Financial terms of the agreement were not disclosed. Ankleshwar, India-based Laffans was formed in 1994 to make ethylene oxide derivatives. The chemicals business, which ...
Lubrizol Corp.'s (LZ: News ) second-quarter consolidated earnings attributable to the company were $201.4 million or $2.88 per share versus $131.9 million or $1.92 per share last year. Excluding the special charges, adjusted earnings were $201.7 million or $2.88 per share for the ...
* Adj Q3 EPS $1.28 vs. Wall Street view $1.27 * Revenue up 14 percent * Sees adj Q4 EPS $1.27 to $1.33 * Says won't enter bidding war for Airgas * Shares up 3.1 percent NEW YORK (Reuters) - Industrial gas supplier Air Products and Chemicals Inc, which has gone hostile in its bid ...
Nanjing Hongbaoli Co., Ltd released H1 results with operating revenues of Rmb 754 million, positively up 74.11% over the same period of last year. Operating profits rose by 7.29% to Rmb 77.6492 million while total profits climbed up by 8.17% to Rmb 78.0761 million. Basic earnings ...
Several Malaysian companies are taking part in a biomass training initiative sponsored by the EU this year, aiming to develop a more competitive sector. The EU-funded project, co-ordinated by Malaysian biomass support organisation Biomass-SP, aims to promote tie-ups in the ...
As the death toll rose to 13 in the powerful explosion July 28 at an empty plastics factory in Nanjing, the widespread and massive damage forced at least one plastics company to cease production. Film extruder Nanjing Jinzhongda New Material Co. Ltd. said 46 of its employees were ...
After months of intense preparation, the 2010 Shanghai Volkswagen Painting Competition (Zone: South and Central China) final took place July 8 at Volkswagen s Wuhan Youzhiyou store. Hosted by Shanghai Volkswagen and PPG Industries (NYSE:PPG), the event was attended by executives ...
Beijing Petroleum Exchange (BPE), which began operation on Jul 30, will start spot trading of gasoil, gasoline, fuel oil, jet, lubricant, solvent oil, naphtha, etc. in the near term, according to a source with the exchange. "Under our preliminary plan, we will launch just spot ...
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Bill Gates talks nuclear
Microsoft co-founder Bill Gates confirmed on Wednesday that he is ...
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
China offers inspirations to global dilemmas
BEIJING, Jan. 22 (Xinhua) -- Policies of China's new leadership in the ...
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck to put $1.5b in R&D
Merck Sharp & Dohme (MSD), the world's second-largest drug producer by ...
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
IMF chief warns of risks to recovery
DAVOS, Switzerland, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- The International Monetary ...
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
China's farm product pricing plan shifts to market orientation
The Number One Document also proposed a new pricing plan for China's ...
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
Chinese investors look to overseas opportunities
SHANGHAI, Jan. 25 (Xinhua) -- China, the world's top manufacturer and ...
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
Retailer's Net Profit Falls 3%
A Wal-Mart store is seen in Stratford, Connecticut, the United States. ...
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Gaming Firms Find Going Tough
Employees demonstrate Sony Ericsson Mobile Communications' Xperia Play ...
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
Boeing Wins Biggest Order of US$26b
A formation of nine Royal Air Force Red Arrows Hawk aircraft fly ...
Yao's gift of sport for all
Yao's gift of sport for all
Chinese NBA player Yao Ming teaches a boy with special needs how to ...
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Lucrative golf industry lures stiff competition
Two models stand beside golf equipment and bags at a recent golf ...
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
Li Na wins French Open women's singles title
History-making tennis legend Li Na notched the first-ever grand slam ...