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Change of Acid at Refinery Could Reduce Risk, Report Says
Use of sulfuric acid instead of hydrofluoric acid at the Mobil Oil Corp. refinery in Torrance could pose less danger to area residents in the event of an accident, according to a preliminary report prepared by the Torrance city staff. But it also would mean a substantial increase in truck traffic and hazardous-waste disposal problems, […]
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L.A. Refinery Blast Sparks Warning on Possibility of Poisonous Gas Release
Citing a November explosion at the Mobil Oil Corp. refinery in Torrance, South Coast Air Quality Management District officials have warned that the possibility exists for a “significant release” of hydrogen fluoride gas at facilities that use the chemical. An AQMD staff report obtained Monday calls for creation of a “high-level, multiagency” task force that […]
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Hydrofluoric Acid Leak in Texas Leaves a Residue of Questions
TEXAS CITY, Tex. – After 4,000 people were evacuated as a result of a leak of hydrofluoric acid from a refinery, questions are still being asked about potential hazards here and in other cities where the same chemical is used. Those questions center both on the long-term effects on those exposed to the Oct. 30 […]
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Alert Sounded on Potentially Lethal Refinery Chemical
Fifty-eight U.S. oil refineries, including three in the Los Angeles area, are using a potentially lethal chemical that could result in a Bhopal-like disaster threatening as many as 12 million people across the country, a Washington-based environmental group has warned. Fred Millar of the Environmental Policy Institute issued the warning three years after the Bhopal […]
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Hydrogen Fluoride Called A ‘Bhopal’ Gas, Say Group, Physicist
Hydrogen fluoride could be America’s Bhopal gas, according to an environmental group and an Energy Department physicist studying the behavior of hazardous chemicals when they are spilled. The pair on Thursday likened the threat posed by the chemical to that of methyl isocyanate, which leaked from Union Carbide’s Bhopal, India, plant in December 1984 and […]
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66 Are Injured By Toxic Leak At Texas Plant
TEXAS CITY, Tex., Oct. 31 – Sixty-six people were seriously injured and 3,000 residents fled their homes Friday after a leaking tank at an oil refinery sent up a cloud of toxic acid vapor. Workers today pumped the leaking hydrofluoric acid through a two-inch hose into two connecting tank cars at the Marathon Petroleum Company […]
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2,000 Forced to Flee Acid Cloud at Texas Refinery; 100 Injured
TEXAS CITY, Tex. – A crane dropped its load onto a pipe at an oil refinery Friday, unleashing a hydrofluoric acid cloud that forced the evacuation of at least 2,000 people and sent more than 100 others to hospitals, officials said. Workers at Marathon Oil Co. sprayed water into the vapor cloud Friday night in […]
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EPA Charges Armco With Violations
PHILADELPHIA – The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has charged Armco Inc. with chronic violations of its national pollutant discharge elimination system (Npdes) permit at its Butler, Pa., plant. The lawsuit asks for $ 10,000 a day in penalties for each day of violations that occurred prior to Feb. 4, 1987, and $ 25,000 for each […]
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Nader Says EPA Underestimates Water Intake
WASHINGTON – The Environmental Protection Agency has set drinking water contamination standards that underestimate how much water some people drink, according to consumer activist Ralph Nader and an agency employees union. “This policy needs to be re-evaluated,” Nader said in a letter to EPA Administrator Lee M. Thomas released Saturday. Nader said EPA has set […]
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Mystery cloud leads to search of records
TAMPA – State environmental officials Friday began searching through records of a phosphate company and interviewing Polk County residents who said they became ill after breathing fumes from a mile-long gas cloud. State officials said US Agri-Chemical company near Fort Meade may be responsible for causing the gas cloud Wednesday over parts of Polk and […]
United States, Florida Phosphate Industry