Communities are under evacuation orders Wednesday after a large chemical leak from an explosives plant in southeast Ohio is ...

There were three deadly chemical plant accidents in Lodi alone within a 30-year span. A 1969 blast at a plant run by the B.L. Lemke company killed one. Eight died in a 1973 blast at the nearby ...

Researchers from nonprofit Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, which has been tracking ... residents of Deer Park saw ...

An investigation by the U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board found preventable safety failures in three ...

The EPA must designate high-risk areas for chemical plant failures particularly susceptible to natural disasters and require these facilities to develop plans to protect themselves and adjacent ...

Since 1998, the Chemical Safety Board has played a key role in probing the causes of major chemical accidents.

But there’s no federal requirement for backup power at these plants, despite climate change and the growing threat of natural disasters. And many chemical facilities including seafood plants ...

The Nypro plant produced caprolactam, a chemical used to make nylon material ... a chemist who had only been working at Nypro for six months. The disaster claimed the lives of 28 people and ...

Aleks Phillips is a Newsweek U.S. News Reporter based in London. His focus is on U.S. politics and the environment. He has covered climate change extensively, as well as healthcare and crime.

Chemical disasters occur about once every other day ... all of the chemicals at our plant and At least at one time there was a huge explosion. Last year the EPA proposed changes to the program ...

The Shutdown BioLab group protesting the chemical plant in Rockdale County is joining ... Shutdown Biolab, a group created after the disaster, announced this week that it is joining the ...

The Nypro plant produced caprolactam, a chemical used to make nylon material ... Image caption, The disaster claimed the lives of 28 people and many more were left injured The then 24-year-old ...