Manufacturing

The Environmental Protection Agency is preparing to end requirements that oil and gas producers detect and fix greenhouse-gas emissions.

Widely used in farming as fertilizer, the substance has caused some of the world’s deadliest blasts outside wartime.

Bayer said it swung to a net loss of $11.23 billion in the second quarter on provisions for its multibillion-dollar settlement with plaintiffs alleging the company’s Roundup herbicides cause cancer, as the German firm slightly lowered its outlook due to the coronavirus pandemic.

U.S. fuel makers ran below capacity in the second quarter in a preview of the challenges they are likely to face as the world transitions away from fossil fuels.

Big oil companies endured one of their worst second quarters ever and are positioning themselves for prolonged pain as the coronavirus pandemic continues to sap global demand for fossil fuels.

For the second time in less than a year, a study of common sunscreen ingredients has established that the chemicals are absorbed into the bloodstream at concentrations far greater than the Food and Drug Administration’s safety threshold.

Silver prices climbed to their highest level in nearly three years, lifted by factory reopenings and soaring investor demand for precious metals.

The chemicals company has agreed to rework the part of its massive settlement with plaintiffs that deals with how future claims over its Roundup weedkiller are covered.

U.S. crude supply is falling at its quickest pace ever, easing a global oil glut and spurring a swift recovery in fuel prices.

Energy giant BP has agreed to sell its petrochemicals business to British chemicals company Ineos for $5 billion, marking the largest deal by an oil major since the new coronavirus was declared a pandemic.

More than 40% of the companies in the S&P 500 have pulled their guidance, as the coronavirus pandemic has doused U.S. corporations in uncertainty, and their shares together have fallen more than the broader index.

The Defense Department canceled contracts with a company that incinerated more than 2 million pounds of materials containing toxic “forever chemicals” from firefighting foam in upstate New York over the past two years.

The decision to reverse an Obama-era initiative was based on a new analysis that showed the toxic chemical is too rare in public water supplies to require setting a federal limit.

Now they’re taking a harder stand.

The move comes after it found higher-than-acceptable levels of a contaminant in extended-release versions of a drug that controls high blood sugar in type-2 diabetes patients.

A Pakistan International Airlines plane crashes in Karachi, Memorial Day weekend begins as restrictions ease, central Michigan is flooded as dams break and more from The Wall Street Journal’s photo editors.

Brazil’s truck market will shrink at least 30% this year from 2019 as demand slumps amid the coronavirus crisis, says the president of Mercedes-Benz do Brasil.

A small city in upstate New York has become the latest place to contend with the disposal of toxic “forever chemicals” that the U.S. military has been trying to destroy, as concerns grow that such chemicals contribute to air pollution.

Prices are staging a furious comeback from last month’s collapse, lifted by record supply cuts and a pickup in global fuel demand that many investors hope heralds a swift economic recovery.