Chemical plant safety
October 12, 2011
Two suits target Bayer Institute plant
Two Institute-area residents on Wednesday sued Bayer CropScience, alleging repeated leaks a ...
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July 9, 2011
DuPont rejected safety options for Belle plant, records show
It was May 1988, and DuPont Co. engineers and managers were debating how to best build a facility w ...
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July 7, 2011
Phosgene leak could have crossed river, CSB says
Dangerous levels of the poisonous chemical phosgene may have escaped the DuPont Co. ...
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July 7, 2011
CSB: DuPont needs to 're-examine' safety practices
DuPont Co. rejected affordable plant and equipment upgra ...
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June 11, 2011
Chemical board continues to delay DuPont report
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- U.S. Chemical Safety Board officials continue to delay the release of ...
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April 21, 2011
Most claims dropped from Bayer suit
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- Most of the residents who sued to stop Bayer CropScience from restarting the me ...
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March 9, 2011
Court expert in Bayer case has opposed tougher chemical rules
A chemical engineer appointed to advise U.S. District Judge Joseph R. Goodwin about the safety ...
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March 7, 2011
MIC study meeting set for March 21
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- March 21 is shaping up to be a pretty busy day for Kanawha Valley residents who ...
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February 24, 2011
CSB study details potential MIC leak impacts
Thousands of people living within four miles of the Bayer CropScience plant ...
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February 13, 2011
Goodwin clarifies Bayer MIC order
CHARLESTON, W.Va. -- A federal judge on Sunday clarified that last week's temporary restraining ...
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January 20, 2011
Report: Fatal Bayer blast 'should never have happened'
Kanawha County and the state of West Virginia should press chemical companie ...
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December 8, 2010
Feds: Boost Kanawha's chemical safety plan
California program is model for Chemical Valley
 
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July 15, 2010
Carper concerned CSB stalling Bayer blast report
Kanawha County Commission President Kent Carper is complaining that the federal Chemical Sa ...
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June 25, 2010
Before fatal leak, DuPont scrambled to fix phosgene problems
In the hours before a fatal January 23 phosgene leak at the DuPont Co. plant in Belle, company offic ...
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May 10, 2009
Bayer knew MIC monitors were broken before blast
Company officials have repeatedly said no MIC was released during the Aug. 18, 2 ...
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September 3, 2008
Nitro to ask Bayer to repay police overtime in plant fire
Nitro City Council announced Tuesday night it will attempt to recoup the expenses the city i ...
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August 29, 2008
Shelter-in-place order for much of western Kanawha County
Residents in much of western Kanawha County were under a shelter-in-place order on Thursday ...
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August 28, 2008
Blast rocks Bayer plant; Injuries reported; Area roads closed; Residents told to shelter in place
Witnesses reported seeing a red fireball and feeling a blast as far away as Charleston, after an exp ...
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