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Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Rebecca Trager	DuPont fined over fatal leak DuPont failed to take the necessary precautions to protect four workers who died after a methyl mercaptan leak at the company's facility in November 2014, the US Department of Labor's occupational safety and health administration has determined.
Chemistry World May 26, 2015 Matthew Gunther	MOF catalyst capable of disabling chemical weapons Metal -- organic frameworks may become an essential tool to destroy chemical weapons as researchers in the US have found one that has the potential to rapidly break down nerve agents.
Chemistry World May 22, 2015 James Urquhart	Complex amines made easy (and cheap) Phil Baran's lab at the Scripps Research Institute, La Jolla, has come up with a protocol that repurposes two readily available and inexpensive feedstock building blocks; olefins and nitroarenes, via iron-catalysed cross-coupling.
Chemistry World May 21, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Canada sets climate target The Canadian government has set a goal of reducing the nation's greenhouse gas emissions from the oil-and-gas, natural gas-fired electricity, chemicals and nitrogen fertilizer sectors.
Chemistry World May 21, 2015 Rebecca Trager	Response to tainted US drinking water criticised Official responses to recent disasters that have contaminated drinking water supplies in the US often lack scientific rigor, according to new research from Purdue University.
Chemistry World May 21, 2015 Matthew Gunther	Research shines light on perovskite solar cell manufacturing Scientists in South Korea who broke the efficiency record for a perovskite solar cell earlier this year have come up with a new method to manufacture them.
AFP eWire May 20, 2015 Andrew Watt	Comments of the Association of Fundraising Professionals on Cancer Charities Charged With Fraud by FTC AFP responded to the recent action by the Federal Trade Commission against three national charities, Cancer Fund of America, Children's Cancer Fund of America, and Breast Cancer Society.
Chemistry World May 20, 2015 Andy Extance	Malaria drug could cash in on green chemistry Green chemistry principles could make synthesizing the frontline antimalarial drug artemisinin both cleaner and cheaper, an industry -- academia collaboration suggests.
Chemistry World May 20, 2015 Mark R StJ Foreman	The nuclear danger of iodine Certain isotopes of iodine are harmful. In both the Fukushima and the 1986 Chernobyl accidents, volatile iodine species were released into the environment with tellurium.
Chemistry World May 19, 2015 Anthony King	Roadmap to reward pharma for creating new antibiotics unveiled Pharma firms need better incentives to create novel antibiotics to head off an 'apocalyptic scenario' where commonplace infections become deadly once more.
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