Specialty chemicals company cutting about 570 jobs and closing factories in France, Britain and Mexico to 'address overcapacities and reduce costs.'

CF Industries Holdings Inc. said a fatal release of anhydrous ammonia at its Pine Bend, Minn., terminal killed one truck driver and injured another.

Chemical company said it plans to sell more assets in 2010 as it continues to work toward paying off debt from its $16.5 billion acquisition of Rohm and Haas in April.

Chemical company said it will sell its powder coatings business to Amsterdam-based Akzo Nobel NV for an undisclosed amount.

Rising prices could imperil the global economic recovery, International Energy Agency said Thursday as it raised its outlook for oil demand this year.

Male factory workers in China who got very high doses of a chemical that's been widely used in hard plastic bottles had high rates of sexual problems, researchers said.

Agency will set new nationwide emission standards for makers of polyvinyl chloride, commonly known as the plastic PVC, under a settlement with environmental groups.

Federal officials are giving the public an extra month to comment on a proposed deal with Dow Chemical on designing a cleanup of dioxin contamination near its Midland, Mich., plant.

Amid growing safety concerns and regulatory scrutiny, Clorox is changing its bleach-making process so it can stop transporting chlorine to U.S. factories by rail.

British oil company said it is disappointed to receive record $87 million from OSHA over 2005 explosion that killed 15 people at its Texas City refinery.