Oracle Road was closed in Oro Valley on Monday afternoon after a vehicle carrying about 1,600 gallons of hypochlorite leaked about 1,000 gallons of its load.

The Southern Arizona Chapter of the American Chemical Society recently honored Pollyanna Wikrent, a PCC full-time chemistry faculty member, with its College Educator Excellence in Teaching Award.

On June 29, Oro Valley police officers questioned three local, teenage boys in connection with homemade, chemical-reaction bottle bombs found in the youths' neighborhood.

The Northwest Fire District responded to a home on Tucson's northwest side Thursday after the homeowner accidently mixed pool chemicals within the house.

A local author plans to donate 10 percent of the profit from his new book to help people suffering from Multiple Chemical Sensitivity.

Just after 9 a.m. Friday morning, crews from the Northwest Fire District's Hazmat team were called to the on ramp of Eastbound Interstate 10 at Avra Valley Road after a report of a “blue powder” that was on the roadway after falling from a truck.

Small amounts of drugs have been found in a well in Continental Ranch, but Tucson Water officials maintain that the levels of the pharmaceuticals are harmless.

A new chemical process can transform waste sulfur into a lightweight plastic that may improve batteries for electric cars, reports a University of Arizona-led team. The new plastic has other potential uses, including optical uses.

Gov. Jan Brewer signed into law House Bill 2327, legislation that gives law enforcement officers another critical tool to attack the production and use of so-called “Spice,” “K2” and other synthetic drugs in our communities.

Results from as yet unpublished studies are beginning to shed light on the extent and possible effects of trace amounts of antibiotics, synthetic hormones and other pharmaceuticals and chemicals that are leaching from effluent flowing in the Santa Cruz River into ground water in and around Marana.

Oro Valley puts on a hazardous waste clean-up day on Saturday, May 23, with people invited to bring household items to the Naranja Town Site, 660 W. Naranja Road from 8 a.m. until noon.

Shane Snyder from the University of Arizona's Chemical and Environmental Engineering department is the guest speaker for tonight's inaugural meeting of Oro Valley Science Café. It begins at 6:30 at the Western National Parks Association store, 12880 N. Vistoso Village Drive.

On June 29, Oro Valley police officers questioned three local, teenage boys in connection with homemade, chemical-reaction bottle bombs found in the youths’ neighborhood.

Americans have embraced recycling and are enthusiastic about cleaner energy sources. Yet when it comes to caring for their outdoor environment, many people still use less earth-friendly tools and techniques. So what’s standing in the way of Americans going green in their gardens and landscapes?

Paul Blowers, PhD, originally took on the profession of chemical engineer as a personal challenge. Growing up in his home town in northern Michigan, he saw others bested by the field – and that only drove him harder.

In a room on the second floor of the Sanofi-aventis research center in Oro Valley, a yellow industrial robotic arm sits at the center of a circle, surrounded by scientific instruments.

In a large new laboratory at the Sanofi-aventis Research Center in Oro Valley, chemist Mark Drew, Ph.D., eyed a round-bottom flask filled with a red-speckled, brown material.

In its new Tucson research and development center, Sanofi-aventis stores the "Tucson Collection" of chemical compounds.

The Industrial Commission of Arizona sued the Avra Valley Fire District earlier this month regarding fallout from a chemical cleanup in March 2007.

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