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Homes evacuated after train carrying toxic chemicals derails in Galveston County, Texas
SANTA FE, Texas — A handful of homes were evacuated and 2-mile stretch of State Highway 6 near the Galveston County line was shutdown Saturday night after a train pulling tankers of hydrogen fluoride and other chemicals derailed. A railroad spokeswoman said that 12 tank cars left the tracks near Mustang Road not far from […]
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Fluorosilicic acid release in Braithwaite could have been ‘catastrophic’
A highly corrosive acid that leaked from a storage facility at a Braithwaite chemical plant on Monday could have eaten through adjacent storage tanks to cause a “catastrophic” mix of toxic chemicals, a state Department of Environmental Quality official said Tuesday. The disaster was averted by pumping the spilled material into the Mississippi River, where […]
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Massachusetts Presstek faces $125k EPA fine for release of 750 pounds of hydrofluoric acid
Presstek faces a fine of more than $125,000 for alleged environmental violations relating to a 2006 chemical spill at its plant in South Hadley, Mass. In an administrative complaint, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency says that the Hudson-based provider of printing equipment released some 750 pounds of hydrofluoric acid — “an extremely hazardous chemical,” according […]
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Presstek hit with $125k fine over ’06 leak at Mass. plant
Hudson-based Presstek faces $125,000 in environmental fines for a 2006 chemical spill at its South Hadley, Mass., plant. The spill evacuated neighbors within a mile radius and caused next-day school closings. Presstek is accused of violating federal Environmental Protection Agency laws when it failed to report the hazardous chemical spill Oct. 30, 2006, according to […]
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DuPont Acquires Chemtura Fluorine Chemicals Business
WILMINGTON, Del., Feb. 1 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — DuPont today announced that it has completed its purchase of Chemtura Corporation’s fluorine chemicals business. The move is part of DuPont’s strategy to expand its fluorochemicals business offerings; enhance its presence in specialty businesses such as the fire extinguishants, pharmaceutical propellants and fluoro-intermediate markets; and leverage the assets and […]
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Fire at Daikin in Decatur closes fluoropolymer plant
The Daikin America plant was shut down after an unexplained fire in the fluoropolymer melt products building Monday morning. No one was injured in the 12:40 a.m. fire, according to human resources and general affairs manager Marc Singleton, and the fire did not damage other areas of the plant. “We’re still in the process of […]
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No injuries reported in leak at Honeywell in Baton Rouge
A leak of hydrofluoric acid at Honeywell’s facility on Lupine Avenue on Monday had no offsite effects, according to the Baton Rouge Fire Department. Robert Combs, a Baton Rouge Fire Department spokesman, said the leak of material — used to make refrigerants and other products — was reported shortly after noon on Monday. Robert Donohoe, […]
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Managing methamphetamine mess
Victor Boyd cleans up the sort of mess few people want anything to do with – the remnants of illegal methamphetamine laboratories. The Titirangi resident got his idea for his company, Contaminated Site Solutions, while working for another commercial cleaner. “We’d been approached by a couple of councils and they didn’t know how to deal […]
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Firm fined after acid river leak
A chemical plant has been ordered to pay £16,000 in fines and costs after acid leaked into a river. The court heard vegetation turned black and fish died in the leak at Kingsweston Rhine and a pond near the Rhodia Organique plant in Avonmouth. The firm pleading guilty to causing poisonous or polluting matter to […]
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DuPont to pay $1.1 million for 1997 spill
The DuPont chemical plant in western Louisville will pay $1.1 million to settle a federal Clean Air Act complaint stemming from a major spill of dangerous hydrogen fluoride six years ago. Half the money will be paid as a civil penalty, with the rest going toward eight local projects, including a $71,000 “green buffer zone” […]
United States, Kentucky Chemical Industry
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