Latest news about Benzene
PTT raises fuel prices (Thailandnews.net)
PTT Plc raised its retail prices of oil by Bt0.50 per liter, effective this early Wednesday. Benzene octane 91 fuel is now Baht 37.44 a liter, while diesel is at Baht 29.19 per liter.
9 Mar 2010, 7:32 pm | click here for more
Cumene 2010 World Market Outlook and Forecast Been Recently Added by MarketPublishers.com (Business Wire via Yahoo! Finance)
LONDON----Cumene demand is tied to the automotive/transportation and home construction industries through its derivative, phenol. Consequently, with these sectors either slow or in decline, the demand growth for Cumene is projected to be only 1% through 2011.
12 Mar 2010, 4:48 am | click here for more
Alberta Enviro says odours A-ok (Grande Prairie Daily Herald-Tribune)
PEACE RIVER – Alberta Environment's lab results have determined that a hydrocarbon odour bothering residents in the Three Creeks area close Peace River is not harmful to human health.[...]
12 Mar 2010, 3:41 am | click here for more
Study: Benzene, carbon disulfide levels overall low in Flower Mound (updated) (Flower Mound Leader)
If air travel was available now, would you rather fly Southwest Airlines from a larger Collin County airport in McKinney or one close the casinos across the stateline in Oklahoma?
12 Mar 2010, 3:01 pm | click here for more
House panel to investigate hydraulic fracturing (Telluride Daily Planet)
WASHINGTON (AP) — An oil and gas drilling technique that is becoming more widespread is drawing scrutiny from lawmakers concerned that it may pose a hazard to human health by tainting drinking water and harming the environment.
12 Mar 2010, 1:18 am | click here for more
‘Split Estate’ shows Thursday, library (Telluride Daily Planet)
The interests of those who live on Colorado’s mesas, plains and mountains, and those who want what’s below them, are often in conflict.
12 Mar 2010, 12:29 am | click here for more
The Dangerous Quest for Deepwater Oil (Newsweek)
Miles below the ocean floor lies enough oil to power the U.S. for more than a decade—and perhaps our best shot at energy independence.
12 Mar 2010, 11:18 am | click here for more
W.Va. demands details on gas drillers' water use (The Huntington Herald-Dispatch)
CHARLESTON -- The West Virginia Department of Environmental Protection has begun gathering more detailed information about where oil and gas producers are getting water to drill their wells and how they'll dispose of it afterward.
11 Mar 2010, 9:18 pm | click here for more
U.S. firms working to lower cost of solar energy (McClatchy Newspapers via Yahoo! News)
TOLEDO, Ohio — One piece of the American effort to find a way to make solar energy cheap enough that everyone will want it is unfolding in a modest redbrick building in this Midwestern city once known as one of the nation's top makers of glass.
11 Mar 2010, 4:47 pm | click here for more
Water dangers (The News & Observer)
For some time you have been reporting on chemical contaminants in Camp Lejeune's drinking water supply. Mentioned most often are benzene, trichloroethylene (TCE), tetrachloroethylene (PERC) and vinyl chloride (VCM).
10 Mar 2010, 9:55 pm | click here for more