EPA May Lift Ban on Dow's Termite Killer
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The controversial pesticide used to protect new homes from termites will be sold beyond a deadline that requires it to be phased out at the end of the month.
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Investor's Business Daily - For the first time in four years, the Dow Jones industrial average is changing its stocks to beef up its weighting in financials and oil and cut back on industrials. It's dropping Altria   and Honeywell International  , replacing them with Bank of America   and Chevron   before the market open Feb. 19.
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By Douglas Fischer  A measure banning a broad class of flame retardants from furniture and bedding cleared the Assembly late Wednesday night, while a controversial effort to ban one of the most widely used chemical flame retardants from all consumer products fell short today.
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By Jim Myers, Tulsa World, Okla.  Jun. 8--WASHINGTON -- A new federal rule will encourage commercial uses of chat and further the removal of more of the mining waste from the Tar Creek Superfund site, U.S. Sen. Jim Inhofe says.
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DDT, the long-banned insecticide   blamed for killing birds and other wildlife, is now approved   for use indoors to fight malaria, the World Health Organization   announced on Friday.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 5--RELATED:  Fearless objection takes lawmakers by surprise   --Virginia Politics Blog   The Senate conservation committee endorsed a bill today that would strip powers from two pollution-fighting boards.
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The Bush administration has asked  Congress to quickly lift a ban on U.S. Export-Import Bank loans  in Libya and said "timing is critical" to help American  companies invest in the oil-rich country, according to a letter  released on Tuesday.
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The state-led push could weaken the EPA's emissions-trading system, which is popular with industry.
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Demands by the United States and other wealthy nations to delay the phasing out of a pesticide that depletes the ozone layer threaten to unravel a key global environmental treaty, experts said on Thursday.
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A manufacturing plant in Ohio was using the banned substance that ended up in feed for farmed fish, shrimp and livestock.
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The Dow Jones industrial average rose on Thursday after economic bellwether Honeywell International raised its profit forecast, offsetting doubts about whether a global plan to thaw credit markets could work.
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Canada's cattle and beef industries, battered by the discovery of mad cow disease in 2003, would win new access to the important U.S. market by this spring under a plan Washington announced on Wednesday to relax a trade ban.
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Experts say the move could lead to suits against the U.S. or private companies.
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A recent deal to protect the habitat of endangered coral may offer US environmentalists new leverage.
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In other changes, the Dow Jones industrial average will drop Altria Group and Honeywell International. The changes will take effect Feb. 19.
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By MICHAEL JIVKOV  Readers should keep an eye out for a Zirax today. Word has it the Russian speciality chemicals group will herald plans to increase its manufacturing facilities, allowing it to hike output of its calcium chloride pellets for the de-icing and oil-field services markets.
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By Rex Springston, Richmond Times-Dispatch  Feb. 6--The state Senate conservation committee yesterday endorsed a bill, favored by industry, that would strip powers from two state pollution-fighting boards.   The bill goes before the full Senate today.