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The EPA has raised concerns about a cancer-causing chemical emitted in high amounts by the B. Braun plant in Hanover Township, Lehigh County. The company has released far more ethylene oxide in its operations than Sterigenics, a plant outside Chicago that was forced by Illinois to suspend operations amid public outcry over emissions of the carcinogen.
Last week, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) proposed new rules for chemical facilities under the Risk Management Program (RMP) which directs EPA to prevent explosions, fires, and other dangerous industrial disasters that put thousands of communities at risk.
The president has vowed to protect poor communities from bearing an unfair burden of air and water pollution. To do it will require reversing decades of industry-friendly regulations.
Winston-Salem fertilizer fire spurs questions about building and workplace safety; Weaver Fertilizer; ammonium nitrate safety; OSHA; GAO
About 6,500 under evacuation orders while firefighters still can’t get within 300ft of blaze at North Carolina plant