C&EN’s Global Top 50 chemical firms for 2024 Dow plans deep cuts amid poor economy Nylon maker Ascend files for bankruptcy Dow has agreed to sell its Institute, West Virginia, complex ...

2 announced that the National Academy of Sciences has begun a study of how to reduce or eliminate the methyl isocyanate (MIC ... that is near Charleston, West Virginia's capital.

Even before last week's chemical spill fouled tap water in nine counties in West Virginia ... thousands of villagers in India died after methyl isocyanate, or MIC—a chemical used to make ...

Bayer (BAY.DE) is storing 90 tonnes of methyl isocyanate -- the chemical that killed thousands in the 1984 Union carbide disaster at Bhopal -- in a storage tank in Institute, W.V., that has failed ...