Manufacturing

A large fire at a Passaic, N.J., chemical plant continued to burn Saturday morning, as more than 200 firefighters battled to keep the flames away from chlorine stored at the facility.

Biopharmaceutical firm Pardes Biosciences plans to spend a large chunk of the funds it raised through a public offering late last month on a pill it is developing to treat Covid-19, including on manufacturing and hiring more clinical staff.

Auto makers are trying to control more of the supply chain for electric vehicles, forging new partnerships with raw-materials producers and investing in facilities that make chemicals for batteries.

The sales are part of an effort to appease regulators ahead of a supersize merger that would unite the two financial-information companies.

The company said some products showed traces of benzene, a cancer-causing chemical, and that customers should throw the sprays away.

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The countries rely on Chinese exports of urea, which is produced using coal, for fertilizer and running diesel vehicles.

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Wealthy nations are proposing tariffs on imports like steel and cement that result in high carbon emissions. The proposals could boost U.S. manufacturers—but could also undermine world trade rules and even trigger trade disputes.

The chemicals company announced moves that would remake the chemicals company following years of subpar performance in its shares.

Concerns have mounted over the health toll of toxic substances used to make everything from cellphones to medical devices.

The French competition authority accused more than 100 companies of agreeing not to disclose information about the presence of materials including bisphenol A, which some scientists say could be harmful.

The former chief executive officer of Brazilian petrochemical company Braskem has been sentenced to 20 months in prison for his role in a scheme that diverted $250 million from the company to a slush fund to pay Brazilian government officials, the U.S. Justice Department said.

Some energy companies are selling oil and gas bundled with carbon offsets and marketing the products as carbon neutral, but critics say the practice could undermine the case for burning less fossil fuel.

Aging infrastructure and chemical pollution have led to high-profile cases of contamination from Michigan to West Virginia and beyond.

The Nobel Prize in Chemistry was jointly awarded to U.S.-based scientist David MacMillan and Benjamin List of Germany for their work in molecular chemistry.

The German specialty chemicals maker’s finance chief is working to boost the company’s margins, review its performance metrics and offset higher raw material and energy costs.

Russian agents were assigned to assassinate former KGB agent Alexander Litvinenko, a European court said, while U.K. prosecutors charged a third Russian in relation to a 2018 chemical attack in England.

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