Air, soil, and water tests conducted after the fire determined nearly three dozen "pollutants of concern" were detected at the site, reported WGRZ.
Accidental sulfur release injured employee.
Washington D.C. circuit court petitioned to void the new rules that reverse stricter requirements on chemical storage and emergency response.
Environmental group points to health hazards attributed to clean-up agents.
Many of the risk management requirements were repealed by the Trump administration in 2019.
Enforcement placed on hold by the Trump administration in 2016.
Three years and nine months after an April 2013 ammonium nitrate explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, killed 15 people, all but three of them emergency responders, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency put new rules in place to prevent a disaster like it from ever happening again.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is proposing enhancements to the oversight of hazardous waste shipments to help ensure safe management of imported and exported hazardous wastes.
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Department of Justice announced in September a $5.6 million settlement with Bayer CropScience LP to resolve violations of federal chemical accident prevention laws at its facility in Institute, West Virginia where an explosion killed two people in 2008.
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