11.05.2017
- The UK chemical industry is seeking clarity on the future of chemicals regulation after Brexit. In a recent report, the House of Commons Environmental Audit Committee called on the...
11.05.2017
- The US Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has fired at least five of the 18 scientists on its Board of Scientific Counselors in a move the agency’s new leadership said was aimed...
10.05.2017
- Saudi Aramco has now taken full control of the Port Arthur refinery in Texas, which it up to now has operated as a 50:50 joint venture, Motiva Enterprises, with the Shell group...
10.05.2017
- As it seeks global regulatory approval of its plan to acquire US agribusiness giant Monsanto, Bayer has said it is willing to divest its leading crop protection brand Liberty Link...
10.05.2017
- Akzo Nobel continues to fight to retain its corporate independence, rejecting a third bid from US coatings rival PPG at the beginning of the week just as an activist shareholder...
09.05.2017
- For as much as five months, US drugmaker Pfizer will provide its breast cancer drug palbociclib for free to the England arm of the UK’s National Health Service (NHS). The decision...
09.05.2017
- US healthcare giant Johnson & Johnson (J&J) has said it will appeal the verdict of a jury in St. Louis, Missouri, ordering the company to pay more than $110 million in damages to a...
08.05.2017
- South Africa’s competition commission has conditionally approved Bayer’s plan to acquire Monsanto, thus becoming the first antitrust authority to do so. It will require divestments...
