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Showdown: Torrance decides Tuesday whether to take a stand against refinery
Banning highly toxic hydrofluoric acid from the Torrance refinery is the focus of City Council discussion Tuesday at the first of two public meetings scheduled within a week to tackle environmental and safety issues at the problem-plagued plant. An overflow crowd is expected to listen and participate in a lengthy discussion that begins at 7 […]
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Trump budget would dismantle agency investigating Torrance refinery blast
The Trump administration’s budget blueprint calls for eliminating the U.S. Chemical Safety Board, a small independent agency that has conducted investigations into California’s worst refinery disasters, including the 2015 explosion at the Torrance Refinery. Environmental activists say the Safety Board plays a critical role in ferreting out the causes of major chemical accidents. A government […]
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Is Torrance changing its tune on refinery safety?
With each passing Torrance refinery blast, fire, hydrofluoric acid leak, crane collapse, power outage or smoke-belching emergency flare, calls have grown for measures to make the plant safer. Local activists have pleaded for a ban on highly toxic hydrofluoric acid used at refineries in Torrance and Wilmington — the only two in the state to […]
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County joins political efforts to ban toxic chemical from refineries in Torrance and Wilmington
The county Board of Supervisors, prodded by increasing political and regulatory efforts to protect public health and safety, endorsed proposals Wednesday to ban highly toxic hydrofluoric acid from the two South Bay refineries that use the chemical. A massive explosion in February 2015 at the then-ExxonMobil refinery in Torrance almost caused a catastrophic release of […]
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County Backs Ban of Hydrofluoric Acid, In Use at Torrance Refinery
Torrance Refinery is one of only two refineries in the region that still use modified hydrofluoric acid. LOS ANGELES, CA — The Board of Supervisors voted unanimously Wednesday in support of a proposed ban on the use of modified hydrofluoric acid, prompted by safety concerns regarding a Torrance refinery. Supervisor Janice Hahn recommended sending a […]
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Hundreds protest Torrance refinery, use of MHF
A coalition of environmental groups marched to the Torrance refinery to protest the use of modified hydrofluoric acid and to mark the two-year anniversary of the 1.7 magnitude blast that rocked the city and nearly caused what federal regulators said was a major chemical leak. A small explosion that occurred at the refinery early Saturday […]
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Fire Erupts at Torrance refinery just hours before protest rally
On a day when activists marked the two-year anniversary of an explosion that rocked the then-ExxonMobil refinery and showered neighborhoods with industrial debris, another fire erupted at the troubled Torrance plant early Saturday. “Another fire? Really?” read one of the signs carried by chanting marchers who endured a steady downpour to protest the use of […]
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Activists plan Saturday rally to keep pressure on for toxic acid ban at Torrance refinery
Two days before activists take to the streets to demand a ban on highly toxic hydrofluoric acid at the PBF Energy-owned Torrance refinery, company officials on Thursday reaffirmed their commitment to resist any effort to block its use. PBF officials made the comments in a teleconference with financial analysts to discuss a fourth quarter loss […]
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Seven taken to hospital after acid leak at Phillips refinery near Ferndale
Ferndale – Seven workers were taken to St. Joseph hospital Friday night after toxic hydrofluoric acid was released from the Phillips 66 refinery. Three workers were taken to the hospital as a precaution, Phillips 66 said in a statement. They were all contract workers and their conditions weren’t known Friday. The gas leak occurred about […]
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The ExxonMobil near-disaster you probably haven’t heard of
A 2015 explosion at the company’s refinery near Los Angeles came frighteningly close to releasing a lethal gas into a neighborhood; a ban may result It’s been nearly two years since Nadia Levine fielded the frantic calls — the first one from her husband, the next from a co-worker. Panicked, Levine dialed both her children’s […]
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