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Demand for concrete appears to have only increased after Congress passed the $1 trillion infrastructure package to upgrade America’s roads, bridges and tunnels.

Benzene is a chemical that is a colorless or light yellow liquid that quickly evaporates into the air. Here’s what to do if you are exposed to benzene, as recommended by the CDC.

Wells Fargo Securities’ Christopher Harvey suggests a Big Tech correction is virtually unavoidable due to rising rates.

A new study from the University of Notre Dame suggests that some makeup sold in the U.S. and Canada may contain toxic chemicals.

The worst chlorine shortage the country has ever seen is set to rock this summer’s pool season.

Saudi Arabia’s SABIC posted a net profit of 2.22 billion riyals ($592 million) in the fourth quarter, after reporting a net loss of 890 million riyals in the same quarter in 2019. SABIC, Saudi Basic Industries Corp, expects the global rollout of coronavirus vaccines will boost its sales revenue by as much as 5 percent this year. SABIC shares have…

More than 50,000 people in East Texas remained under a mandatory evacuation order Thursday as a fire continued to burn at a chemical plant, one day after two massive explosions there.

Two massive explosions 13 hours apart tore through a Texas chemical plant Wednesday, and one left three workers injured. The blasts blew out windows and doors of nearby homes and prompted a mandatory evacuation of a 4-mile radius from the plant in Port Neches in Southeast Texas, about 80 miles east of Houston. Officials say they have no estimate for...

Four years after closing its doors, the John C. Clark school sits vacant after Hartford Public Schools discovered high levels of dangerous chemicals known as PCBs. NBC Connecticut Investigates discovered there are other schools still open that might contain the same deadly chemical that forced Hartford to close the Clark School.

An investigation is underway after an employee at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, Massachusetts died Thursday when a chemical incident occurred at the restaurant. Crews continued to clean up the hazardous mess overnight as authorities investigated the exact cause of the worker’s death.

A worker died Thursday in a chemical incident at a Buffalo Wild Wings in Burlington, Massachusetts. Ten other people were sickened. Interim Burlington Fire Chief Michael Patterson said Super 8, a common sanitation product, was being used to clean the floor when people inside the restaurant became sick. Fire crews responded around 5:30 p.m. to find a male worker who...

Indian Island off the coast of Northern California was the site of a massacre, a place that was contaminated by a shipyard and flush with invasive species.

Cameras inside the Philadelphia Energy Solutions refinery caught on video the massive blasts early June 21 from just yards away.

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It’s been a long couple of days for Connecticut state firefighters from Bradley International Airport and the Connecticut National Guard, especially those on duty who were the first to respond to the vintage plane crash Wednesday.

The International Association of Fire Fighters Local S-15 said they will ensure all of their firefighters get the support they need after the plane crash involving a vintage B-17 at Bradley International Aiport.

Preliminary testing results detected elevated levels of PFAS chemicals in fish from the Farmington River after firefighting foam spilled into the river from Bradley International Airport in June.

PFAS, known as “forever chemicals” have been linked to health risks ranging from developmental effects in fetuses and infants and certain forms of cancer.

A chemical spill into the Farmington River has become the catalyst for one of Connecticut’s most pressing environmental health threats.

If U.S. consumers ever ditch fuel burners for electric vehicles, then the United Auto Workers union is in trouble. Gone would be thousands of jobs at engine and transmission plants across the industrial Midwest, replaced by smaller workforces at squeaky-clean mostly automated factories that mix up chemicals to make batteries. The union is keenly aware of this possibility as it...