BALASORE: Panic spread in Faridabad and its adjacent villages under Tihidi block of Bhadrak district today following a leakage in Paradip-Haldia crude oil pipeline of the Indian Oil Corporation (IOC).

Canadian National Railway pleaded guilty and paid fines to settled environmental charges stemming from two high-profile derailments in Western Canada, officials said on Monday.

A paint chemical that is widely used in China is leaking into the Yangtze river and may be responsible for deformities and decreasing numbers of rare wild Chinese sturgeon, a study has found.

Protesters in Peru, angry over the handling of a mercury spill, have blocked the road to one of Latin America's largest gold mines, Yanacocha, which is running low on crucial supplies, sector sources said on Wednesday.

The US Supreme Court ruled Monday for Shell Oil Co and units of Burlington Northern Santa Fe Corp and Union Pacific Corp in a dispute over environmental cleanup costs at a contaminated industrial site in Arvin, California.

The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study was undertaken to address concerns that the discharge of polychlorinated dibenzo-p-dioxins (PCDDs) and polychlorinated dibenzofurans

The University of Michigan Dioxin Exposure Study (UMDES) was undertaken in response to concerns that the discharge of dioxin-like compounds from the Dow Chemical Company facilities in Midland, Michigan, resulted in contamination of soils in the Tittabawassee River floodplain and areas of the city of Midland, leading to an increase in residents

The explosion that tore through the Bayer CropScience chemical plant here last August, killing two employees, was an easily avoidable accident caused by management decisions and human error, a federal agency said Thursday.

A House subcommittee held a hearing Tuesday on a fatal blast at a West Virginia chemical plant.

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