The process emits less carbon dioxide (CO 2) than conventional petroleum-based chemical processing. Plants like sugarcane also soak up carbon, and CO 2 can be used as a substrate for the process ...

Chemical Plants. Published Nov 04, 2001 at 7:00 PM EST Updated Mar 13, ... And they are not all obvious "chemical facilities": many water-processing plants store large tanks of chlorine.

N EW BEDFORD — Year after year, workers process and chill Atlantic fish hauled ashore by New Bedford's fishing fleets, ... Andrade, who lives near New Bedford’s chemical plants, agreed.

A new Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) regulation aims to minimize the harm to local communities from disasters at chemical plants. The regulation overhauls major sections of the EPA’s Risk ...

PEORIA, Ill. (WMBD) — A chemical processing plant is now set to be built along the Illinois River, which Peoria officials said will bring environmentally safe procedures. The Peoria City Council ...

An Idaho potato preservative and insect repellent producer is considering building a $35 million chemical processing plant in Ascension Parish. Meridian, Idaho-based 1,4Group was founded in 1992 ...

The Newburyport chemical-processing plant where an employee was killed in an explosion in May lacked the proper safeguards that could have prevented the 62-year-old worker’s death, according to ...

In 2015, the company was fined more than $44,000 finding workers were exposed to chemical. That fine was later reduced to just over $23,000 . In 2019, a fine of more than $86,000 was levied for ...

The Newburyport chemical-processing plant where an employee died in an explosion earlier this year is shutting down, the company announced Monday. The facility hasn’t operated for months and ...