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Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don t raise red flags by themselves | News

Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don t raise red flags by themselves | News
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Chemicals present in fire after fatal plant explosion, listed in facility inventory don t raise red flags by themselves

Chlorinated dry bleach and methanol were present in a fire that burned for two hours after a fatal explosion at the Optima Chemical facility on the Chemours Co.’s site in Belle Tuesday night, according to emergency responders. An emergency and hazardous chemical inventory that Optima Belle LLC submitted to the West Virginia Emergency Management Division, as required by the division for a reporting period spanning all of 2019, lists 18 chemicals, half of which were listed as explosive or flammable. Methanol was one of the flammable chemicals, and CDB 63, a chlorinated dry bleach product that emergency responders said was present in the fire, was not listed at all.

How regulators loosened pollution reins during early days of COVID-19

How regulators loosened pollution reins during early days of COVID-19 Virus shutdown shows human impact on Earth Replay Video UP NEXT Dozens of power plants, factories and other facilities across the Chesapeake Bay watershed were given latitude to skip pollution-monitoring deadlines, file late reports or release more pollutants during the early days of the COVID-19 pandemic, a review of public documents shows. In March, the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a controversial policy, suspending the enforcement of a swath of environmental laws. Top officials at the agency said the “enforcement discretion” strategy was necessary to allow industries to safely comply with social-distancing rules and lockdowns. 

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