FRANKFURT— Bayer AG’s big push into the U.S. agrochemical market with its planned acquisition of Monsanto Co. could help it offset a growing problem on its home turf: increasingly stringent European regulation.
Tremors from what appeared to be a sizeable earthquake struck the Indian capital Monday, with the aftershocks lasting several seconds. The quake was felt at approximately 1:10 p.m. local time. A
The death toll from an explosion at a chemical plant in northern China last week has risen to 25, with four missing and 46 others injured, state media reported. The official Xinhua News Agency on Sunday
Japan may become a bright spot for the solar industry due to regulatory changes and its nuclear power crisis, which equipment makers from home and abroad hope will help offset a profit outlook clouded
Japanese authorities have introduced stress tests for all nuclear reactors in the country in an effort to ease public worries over nuclear-power safety, but the tests are being called inadequate by some.
Ecuadorian plaintiffs in an environmental lawsuit against Chevron Corp. (CVX) said Friday they will soon be able to begin a process in foreign countries to pursue a multibillion-dollar ruling issued by
Republicans on the campaign trail have long bashed President Barack Obama's environmental regulations. This week the battle moves to the courtroom, where several industries and GOP lawmakers are trying
Shanghai authorities for the first time directly linked lead pollution that they said had sickened local children to emissions from a battery plant owned by Johnson Controls Inc., putting a further cloud
Smoke from burning forests and grasslands kills on average 339,000 people a year world-wide, an international research team said Sunday in the first systematic global health study of air pollution from
U.S. officials have approved an oil-spill plan for Royal Dutch Shell PLC as the company looks to begin drilling in the Arctic, saying Friday that Shell has demonstrated its ability to respond to potential
Federal officials reached the first civil settlement related to the Deepwater Horizon oil spill when a division of Japanese conglomerate Mitsui & Co. agreed Friday to pay $90 million for alleged violations
