Tuesday, April 30, 2013

Thousands Of Chemical Facilities Pose A Risk To Populations Greater Than West, Texas

Thousands Of Chemical Facilities Pose A Risk To Populations Greater Than West, Texas: West, Texas, where a fertilizer plant exploded two weeks ago and killed 15 while injuring more than 160 people, is a small town of just 2,800 people. There are thousands of other chemical facilities around the country that pose a risk to far larger populations. In a November memo prepared for Senator Frank Lautenberg (D-NJ), [...]/p