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National Defense January 2006 Grace Jean |
Pentagon Chem-Bio Program Expands to Homeland Missions The Pentagon and the Department of Homeland Security are seeking to homogenize the equipment that military units and local first responders employ to detect and neutralize toxic agents.  |
National Defense November 2011 Stew Magnuson |
First Responders Sound Alarm on Loss of Grant Money With federal budget cuts looming, local law enforcement and fire departments are growing worried that the money will dry up, or be sharply reduced.  |
National Defense November 2004 Robert H. Williams |
Troops Can Have a Cool Drink in Chem-Bio Attack A portable reservoir hydration system that can be used during chemical and biological weapon attacks recently entered the marketplace.  |
National Defense May 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
First Responders: To Fight Terror, Cross-Training Needed First responders should be trained to deal with a myriad of emergencies, from nuclear to biological attack.  |
National Defense June 2013 Stew Magnuson |
Handheld Chemical Cloud Identifier Hits First Responder Market BLOCK Engineering has shrunk a fixed-sight chemical cloud detector down to where it can be carried into the field.  |
National Real Estate Investor November 18, 2003 Parke Chapman |
Georgia Tech Completes 1.5 Million Sq. Ft. Technology Square Project The Georgia Institute of Technology has completed its 1.5 million sq. ft. Technology Square development, a mixed-use, urban redevelopment project in Atlanta's Midtown business district.  |
National Defense June 2007 Stew Magnuson |
National Guard, Army Chemical Units Criticized for Being Untrained, Unprepared Acute shortages of equipment and personnel means less time, or no time, to train.  |
IndustryWeek February 1, 2007 John Teresko |
Robots, Computers And Education At Georgia Tech, students are assigned their own personal robots.  |
Information Today December 15, 2011 |
CAS and InfoChem to Collaborate in ChemInformatics Chemical Abstracts Service announced a longterm collaboration with InfoChem, GmbH, a provider of chemical structure and reaction technology as well as datamining in chemical science documents.  |
National Defense March 2009 Magnuson & Rusling |
Noted Police Chief Slams Federal-Local Partnerships The man who led the local police response to the 9/11 attacks on the Pentagon hopes the new administration does a better job of coordinating counterterrorism efforts with local law enforcement.  |
National Defense August 2004 Joe Pappalardo |
Pentagon Chem-Bio Defense Program Is Due for Sweeping Reform The Pentagon's chemical and biological defense programs need major changes in the way they field technology, cooperate with other government agencies and support the private sector, according to a senior official.  |
Chemistry World September 16, 2015 Hepeng Jia |
Tianjin blast prompts safety overhaul The recent blast in Tianjin port and other Chinese chemical plant accidents have prompted an overhaul of the country's approach to safety amid accusations of corruption and mismanagement.  |
Chemistry World March 4, 2014 Patrick Walter |
Europe's chemical sector stagnated in 2013 Europe's chemical sector did not grow at all in 2013, according to the latest chemical trends report from the European Chemical Industry Council. This leaves industry's output 6.4% below its peak back in 2007.  |
Chemistry World June 26, 2015 Rebecca Trager |
Chemical reform bill advances in US Congress The US House of Representatives has approved a bipartisan bill to revamp the nearly 40-year-old law that governs America's chemicals policy, known as the Toxic Substances Control Act.  |
Chemistry World October 11, 2012 Patrick Walter |
Slump in confidence hits EU chemical industry EU chemical production has stalled again after staging a brief recovery after the global economic crisis hit. Chemical production has fallen by 2.4% in the first seven months of this year, compared with the same time period last year.  |
Chemistry World March 13, 2009 Rebecca Trager |
Obama tightens reporting rules for chemical releases President Obama has reinstated stronger requirements governing the reporting of toxic chemical releases by American facilities to the US Environmental Protection Agency  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 |
Edgewood Chemical Biological Center Selects iRobot PackBot for CBRN Detection Robot The U.S. Army Research, Development, and Engineering Command will integrate a new chemical, biological, radiological, and nuclear detection payload with the battle-proven iRobot PackBot to create the first-ever robot with such a wide array of sensor capabilities.  |
Chemistry World August 9, 2012 Laura Howes |
Recovering chemical weapons Today, as governments finish destroying their chemical weapons, the US is looking back at the stockpiles it disposed of in the early to mid twentieth century.  |
National Defense March 2005 Harold Kennedy |
Homeland Defense The Defense Department's agency in charge of developing chemical and biological defense technologies is shifting its focus from large-scale incidents on the battlefield to small-scale terrorist attacks against civilians.  |
Chemistry World November 11, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
700 US troops report possible chemical agent exposure An internal Pentagon review has found that 734 US troops reported potential exposure to chemical warfare agents while serving in Iraq and Afghanistan between 2004 and 2010.  |
Chemistry World April 1, 2010 Hepeng Jia |
China Updates Chemical Legislation After a seven-year delay, China has introduced an updated version of its chemical registration and evaluation rules, bringing the country in line with chemical regulation efforts in other parts of the world.  |
Chemistry World July 26, 2012 Andrew Turley |
New US chemical rules edge nearer A political committee in the US has voted in favor of plans to change the way chemicals are regulated by shifting the burden of proving safety to manufacturers.  |
Reason Aug/Sep 2007 Jacob Sullum |
Food Waste Last year the U.S. government spent $1.2 billion on food aid for more than 50 countries, under six programs involving four federal departments and an independent agency. But not all that activity translates into help for the hungry.  |
Smithsonian April 2004 Jeffrey Tayler |
Georgia at a Crossroads Past armed checkpoints into outlaw lands, the author traces the history of the Caucasus republic, the leading recipient of U.S. aid after Israel and scene of a potential new cold war.  |
Information Today November 26, 2012 |
Complete ReaxysFile Now Available on STN ReaxysFile now contains the full content from Reaxys, a leading source for chemical substance and reaction data produced by Elsevier.  |
National Defense August 2005 Joe Pappalardo |
New Science, Strategy Needed to Protect Bases The military is launching a new effort, including equipment purchases, scientific studies and research initiatives, to guard military bases, supply hubs and civilian installations against biological, chemical, radiological or nuclear strikes.  |
Chemistry World April 9, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
EPA seeks heightened scrutiny for 16 chemicals The US Environmental Protection Agency wants to tighten its oversight of certain chemical substances by adding 16 chemicals to its Toxics Release Inventory list.  |
National Defense June 2009 Sandra I. Erwin |
New Database to Help Identify Hazardous Substances As concerns mount about terrorist use of chemical weapons, one company has unveiled a database that will enable firefighters and other first responders to identify unknown substances.  |
National Defense March 2006 |
Joint Strike Fighter Gets Cleaned Up LJoint Strike Fighter testers at Edward Air Force Base are perfecting processes to cleanse the aircraft of biological and chemical contamination.  |
Chemistry World July 8, 2009 Ned Stafford |
Chemical weapons cleanup Researchers have found a safe, speedy and environmentally friendly way to clean up chemical weapons such as sulfur mustard, using a hydrogen peroxide-based microemulsion decontamination system.  |
Science News August 27, 2005 |
Sea Monitors Developed by researchers at the Georgia Tech Research Institute, SeaMaven is a new Web portal that gives students access to data collected from naval platforms 60 miles off the coast of Georgia.  |
Chemistry World April 16, 2010 Rebecca Trager |
Congress proposes toxic chemical regulation reforms The US Congress launched a much anticipated effort to update the nation's 34-year-old law governing new and already existing toxic chemicals yesterday.  |
Chemistry World May 30, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
Industry applauds US chemical reform bill The US chemical industry is backing bipartisan legislation that would reform the law that controls chemical sales in the US for the first time since its enactment in 1976. But environmental groups do not share the enthusiasm.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics June 2004 J.R. Wilson |
Military Services Eye Nuclear, Biological, Chemical Detection While efforts are in progress to improve the ability to detect and deter intruders at military installations, a separate set of programs is tackling how to detect and respond to an attack involving chemical, biological, radiological, nuclear or explosive agents.  |
Chemistry World May 11, 2012 Rebecca Trager |
Sacked EPA chemist wins job back A senior chemist in the US Environmental Protection Agency, who was fired in 2010 after speaking out about the dangers of the dust at the World Trade Center wreckage following the 11 September 2001 attacks, has won her job back.  |
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Star Picks Dihydrogen Monoxide... A chemical jigsaw puzzle... Chemical Heritage Foundation...  |
Sports Illustrated October 31, 2000 Ivan Maisel |
Inside College Football Georgia Tech's swarming defense took the sting out of No. 5 Clemson...  |
IndustryWeek August 18, 2010 Jonathan Katz |
Toxic Avengers Manufacturers discover that greener and smaller chemical inventories can save money. Reforms to the Toxic Substances Control Act of 1976, introduced in July by Representatives Henry Waxman, D-Calif., and Bobby Rush, D-Ill., are aimed primarily at the chemical content of products.  |
National Defense October 2005 |
NIOSH-Validated Gas Mask Emerges Developed for first responders, the Millennium Gas Mask is National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health-approved for chemical, biological, radiological and nuclear agent protection.  |
National Defense November 2006 Harold Kennedy |
Army Lab Channels Expertise to Non-Traditional Areas When the United States invaded Iraq, the Army's Edgewood Chemical Biological Center began tackling a host of problems that were far removed from traditional chemical or biological defense, such as roadside bombs.  |
InternetNews March 12, 2009 Kenneth Corbin |
Lessons From the Russia-Georgia Cyberwar Georgian official and U.S. security experts look back at the Internet attack that preceded the military conflict.  |
Military & Aerospace Electronics August 2006 John Keller |
U.S. And Its Allies Get Serious About Systems Interoperability Recent international exercises involving U.S. and allied military forces, as well as police departments and first responders, are finally getting the idea across that military leaders are getting very serious about interoperability.  |
Science News September 22, 2007 |
Science Safari: Toxipedia A site that makes toxicology and chemical data interesting and relevant to all.  |
Chemistry World August 22, 2011 Hepeng Jia |
Chemical profits nibbled by oversupplies China's chemical industry experienced an 'unexpected' harvest in the first half of the year, although the good days might not last long due to the expected oversupplies which have long harassed the nation's chemical sector.  |
Chemistry World February 2010 Bibiana Campos Seijo |
Editorial: Go Canada What do we know about the chemical industry in Canada?  |
National Defense December 2003 Geoff S. Fein |
Chem-Bio Defense Needs Common Standards Chemical and biological defense equipment is improving, but still is suffering from the lack of technical standards across industry and government agencies. Companies are focused on selling their technology, rather than combining forces and pushing the most promising concepts.  |
Chemistry World April 15, 2010 Hepeng Jia |
Shanghai braces for chemical restrictions Restrictions on chemical transportation and use during an enormous cultural exposition - that is hoping to attract 70 million visitors to Shanghai, China - are due to hit the region's chemical sector in coming weeks.  |
Chemistry World September 3, 2013 Rebecca Trager |
US not accurately tracking serious chemical accidents The US government lacks accurate information about the frequency of serious industrial chemical accidents in the country, according to an analysis by the Dallas Morning News.  |
Finance & Development September 1, 2005 Radelet et al. |
Aid and Growth Although the impact of aid on economic growth diminishes as aid increases, in countries with stronger institutions or better health, more aid can be absorbed effectively.  |
Chemistry World June 10, 2014 Rebecca Trager |
Attempted poisoning wasn't chemical warfare, court rules The US supreme court has quashed the conviction of a microbiologist jailed on chemical terrorism charges by weighing in on a bizarre love triangle.  |