China carfentanil trade thrives as seizures top 400 in US
By ERIKA KINETZ and RAPHAEL SATTER Seizures of the deadly chemical carfentanil have exploded across the United States, with more than 400 cases documented in eight states since July alone,…
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Chemical weapon for sale: China’s unregulated narcotic
By ERIKA KINETZ and DESMOND BUTLER For a few thousand dollars, Chinese companies offer to export a powerful chemical that has been killing unsuspecting drug users and is so lethal…
Residents of contaminated town wary of government efforts
By MARTHA WAGGONER In the little town of Navassa, work has always been hard and dirty. From antebellum rice plantations to Jim Crow-era fertilizer factories and more recently, a massive…
Activist investor intensifies fight over DuPont’s future
A fight for control of DuPont Co. is intensifying after the hedge fund led by activist investor Nelson Peltz announced plans to nominate its own slate of four directors to…
France fines 13 firms $1.2 bln for price-fixing
By JAMEY KEATEN Penalizing a dirty business involving cleaning products, French regulators fined 13 consumer-products makers about 950 million euros ($1.2 billion) for price fixing on goods like shampoos, detergents…
Nuclear industry explores accident-resistant fuel
By RAY HENRY FILE – In this March 21, 2011 file photo provided by Tokyo Electric Power Co. (TEPCO), smoke rises from the Unit 3 reactor of the tsunami-damaged Fukushima…
POLICE ARREST MAN IN JAPAN TAINTED FOOD SCANDAL
In this Saturday, Jan. 25, 2014 photo, Maruha Nichiro Holdings Inc. President Toshio Kushiro, left, and subsidiary Aqli Foods President Yutaka Tanabe, second from left, bow in apology during a…
AFTER 5 DAYS, W.VA.’S WATER CRISIS NEARS ITS END
By BRENDAN FARRINGTON Workers at Freedom Industries continue through the night to empty storage tanks of chemicals into tanker trucks at it’s plant in Charleston, Va., Sunday, Jan. 12, 2014.…