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Friday, June 15, 2018 at 7:28:32 AM
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Table of Contents (10 articles)
EB COURTNEY CAMPBELL CAUSEWAY REOPENS AFTER CHLORINE SPILL
Tags: us_FL, transportation, release, response, chlorine
TANKER TRUCK SPILLS CHEMICAL ONTO SUFFOLK ROAD
Tags: us_VA, transportation, release, response, calcium_carbonate
35 PEOPLE EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS CHEMICAL MIX AT POOL
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, pool_chemicals
KRISTEN KULINOWSKI TO LEAD CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, nanotech
RESCUE EFFORTS END AT GAS TANK EXPLOSION SCENE
Tags: us_PA, public, explosion, death, gasoline
MAN HAS SERIOUS INJURY AFTER ILLEGALLY DISCHARGING FIREWORKS
Tags: us_IA, public, explosion, injury, fireworks, illegal
HOMES EVACUATED AFTER FIRE AT KANSAS CHEMICAL PLANT
Tags: us_KS, industrial, fire, response, biodiesel
NOT AGAIN?! MORE 'SNOW' COVERS ANOTHER GAS STATION, THIS TIME AT STEWART'S SHOP IN B'VILLE
Tags: us_NY, public, release, response, fire_extinguisher
PRACTITIONER INSIGHTS: SCIENTIFIC DISCONNECT IN TOXIC LAW‰??S SINGLE-STUDY HAZARD POLICY
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
GLYPHOSATE WILL NOT BE LISTED AS A CARCINOGEN IN CALIFORNIA
Tags: us_CA, public, discovery, environmental, ag_chems
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EB COURTNEY CAMPBELL CAUSEWAY REOPENS AFTER CHLORINE SPILL
http://www.wfla.com/news/traffic/eb-courtney-campbell-causeway-reopens-after-chlorine-spill/1238393790
Tags: us_FL, transportation, release, response, chlorine
CLEARWATER, Fla. (WFLA) ‰?? 150 gallons of a chlorine solution spilled onto the Courtney Campbell Causeway Thursday, closing the eastbound lanes of the bridge and creating a traffic fiasco during the morning commute.
A driver in the eastbound lanes called 911 around 7:15 to report the truck in front of him was leaking liquid and he could smell chlorine. The Triangle Pool Service truck pulled over on the right shoulder of the road, just west of the Pinellas-Hillsborough County line.
Clearwater Fire Rescue crews responded to the scene. The eastbound lanes of the Courtney Campbell Causeway were closed.
The truck was later moved to the inside lane of the causeway to increase the distance from the water and to make it easier to drain the remaining chlorine from tanks on the truck.
It is estimated that about 150 gallons of the 450 gallons in one of the tanks spilled onto the ground. The other 300 gallons were contained in various barrels and buckets and transferred to another pool supply truck.
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TANKER TRUCK SPILLS CHEMICAL ONTO SUFFOLK ROAD
https://wtkr.com/2018/06/14/possible-hazmat-incident-closes-suffolk-road/
Tags: us_VA, transportation, release, response, calcium_carbonate
SUFFOLK, Va. ‰?? Suffolk Fire & Rescue and Suffolk Police responded to a possible hazmat incident in the Harbour View area of northern Suffolk Thursday night.
Shortly before 8:30 p.m., a citizen called emergency communications and notified them that an industrial tanker truck that was pulling out of a parking lot near the intersection of Bridge Road and Harbour View Boulevard leaked an unknown substance into the road.
The truck left the scene after the spill.
State Hazmat officials have identified the chemical as Calcium Carbonate, which is used to clean up tar related to paving operations. Officials say the chemical will dissipate on its own and no remediation efforts were needed.
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35 PEOPLE EXPOSED TO DANGEROUS CHEMICAL MIX AT POOL
http://www.heraldcourier.com/news/national/people-exposed-to-dangerous-chemical-mix-at-pool/article_172ea57b-91ec-5416-86fe-b452a0f38642.html
Tags: us_CA, public, release, injury, pool_chemicals
SAN JOSE, Calif. ‰?? A summer afternoon at a neighborhood swimming pool took a frightening turn Thursday when at least 35 people, including kids, were exposed to a dangerous mixture of chemicals after a pool maintenance worker mixed the wrong products.
All of the people exposed to the combination of muriatic acid and chlorine ‰?? pool chemicals which created a gas cloud at the Shadow Brook Swim Club in Almaden Valley ‰?? were decontaminated and transported to hospitals, according to the San Jose Fire Department.
Officials said the victims were taken to nine different local hospitals in 10 ambulances. The patients included children as young as 6 and a number of parents. San Jose Fire Capt. Mitch Matlow said a few of those exposed to the gas cloud experienced shortness of breath and vomiting, but he could not say whether any were seriously injured.
Kaiser Permanente San Jose Medical Center treated six patients for upper respiratory conditions and breathing difficulties, according to a Kaiser spokesman. Five of those six patients were released from the hospital by 4 p.m. Good Samaritan Hospital reported the three patients taken there for treatment were in ‰??good condition.‰??
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KRISTEN KULINOWSKI TO LEAD CHEMICAL SAFETY BOARD
https://cen.acs.org/safety/industrial-safety/Kristen-Kulinowski-lead-Chemical-Safety/96/i25
Tags: public, discovery, environmental, nanotech
Kristen Kulinowski will head the Chemical Safety Board as its ‰??interim executive authority‰?? following the resignation of chair Vanessa Allen Sutherland, according to a CSB statement. The board will now be down to three members, two short of the number set by law. ‰??I am committed to ensuring that the CSB‰??s current investigations are completed in a timely and efficient manner and that the lessons learned are available to industry, workers, and members of the public,‰?? Kulinowski said. The board currently has 10 investigations under way. A longtime American Chemical Society member, Kulinowski was a research staff member in the Science & Technology Policy Institute of the Institute for Defense Analyses before being appointed to CSB in 2015. Earlier, she spent 13 years at Rice University as executive director of the Center for Biological & Environmental Nanotechnology and director of the International Council on Nanotechnology. At CSB, she has focused her outreac!
h efforts on laboratory safety and safe practices for welding and other ‰??hot work‰?? in the chemical industry. The U.S. president nominates and the Senate confirms CSB members and the chair. President Donald J. Trump has twice proposed eliminating CSB.
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RESCUE EFFORTS END AT GAS TANK EXPLOSION SCENE
http://levittownnow.com/2018/06/13/rescue-efforts-end-at-gas-tank-explosion-scene/
Tags: us_PA, public, explosion, death, gasoline
A worker was presumed dead Wednesday morning following a gas tank explosion that happened in Bensalem late Tuesday afternoon.
The worker remained underground at the Liberty Gas-Vigilante Service Center in the 1200 block of Bristol Pike. The tank was largely covered by concrete and pavement, which will have to be removed with heavy equipment.
Bensalem Fire Rescue Battalion Chief Rob Sponheimer said the level of dangerous fumes in the tank that exploded around 4:50 p.m. Tuesday remained too high Wednesday morning to send firefighters inside.
Rescue crews left the scene shortly after daybreak Wednesday and were expected to return around mid-morning to begin their recovery operate, Sponheimer told reporters.
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MAN HAS SERIOUS INJURY AFTER ILLEGALLY DISCHARGING FIREWORKS
http://www.kcrg.com/content/news/Man-has-serious-injury-after-discharging-illegal-fireworks-485397621.html
Tags: us_IA, public, explosion, injury, fireworks, illegal
CEDAR RAPIDS, Iowa (KCRG-TV9) -- Authorities responded to the 2300 block of Coldstream Avenue NE for a fireworks injury at 6:41 p.m. June 12.
Authorities say a 19-year-old man had a firecracker explode in his hand.
The man had serious injuries to his hand and lost parts of several fingers.
The Fire Department and Police Department want to remind citizens use within City limits of Cedar Rapids is prohibited.
Authorities also say the incident is a reminder of how dangerous fireworks can be.
Last year the Fire Department responded to 13 fire incidents that invovled fireworks. Three of the incidents included building fires, with the worst causing $140,000 in damage.
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HOMES EVACUATED AFTER FIRE AT KANSAS CHEMICAL PLANT
http://www.powderbulksolids.com/news/Homes-Evacuated-After-Fire-at-Kansas-Chemical-Plant-06-13-2018
Tags: us_KS, industrial, fire, response, biodiesel
A fire at the EGE Products agricultural chemicals and biodiesel plant near Minneola, KS on Tuesday destroyed two buildings at the site and prompted officials to order a voluntary evacuation of nearby homes due to smoke and chemicals in the air.
After the blaze ignited around noon, fire crews from several counties responded to the plant and remaining on scene for about six hours. EGE‰??s plant near Minneola produces fertilizer additives, agricultural chemicals, and biofuel.
‰??The fire was contained quickly and we would like to extend our sincere appreciation to our local and regional first responders. No employees nor any first responders were harmed as a result of the fire,‰?? a statement EGE Products published on Facebook said.
Emergency personnel told Wichita, KS-based television news station KWCH that two buildings were destroyed during the fire and that explosions in several tanks occurred.
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NOT AGAIN?! MORE 'SNOW' COVERS ANOTHER GAS STATION, THIS TIME AT STEWART'S SHOP IN B'VILLE
https://www.syracuse.com/business-news/index.ssf/2018/06/not_again_more_snow_covers_stewarts_shop_in_baldwinsville.html
Tags: us_NY, public, release, response, fire_extinguisher
BALDWINSVILLE, NY - It happened twice in the same week in Central New York.
A fire-suppression system for gasoline pumps was set off accidentally, covering vehicles and the ground with white powder that made it look like it had snowed in June.
The snow-like substance is a white dry chemical agent used in the fire suppression system for the gasoline pumps.
The white stuff covered the grounds and cars at Stewart's Shop at 120 Oswego St. in Baldwinsville earlier today. Customers snapped photos and shared them on social media.
Stewart's Shop employees said the power went out on the gas pumps around 8 a.m., and when a worker went flip the switch to try to turn them back on the worker pushed the wrong lever.
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PRACTITIONER INSIGHTS: SCIENTIFIC DISCONNECT IN TOXIC LAW‰??S SINGLE-STUDY HAZARD POLICY
https://www.bna.com/practitioner-insights-scientific-n73014476437/
Tags: public, discovery, environmental
The reform of the nation‰??s primary chemicals law, as directed by the Frank R. Lautenberg Chemical Safety for the 21st Century Act, required the Environmental Protection Agency to take affirmative steps to support the development of nonanimal testing methods and encourage third parties to use them. The agency released a big picture plan on New Approach Methodologies (NAM) in March, followed in April by a pilot implementation policy that would set a precedent by allowing the results from a single in vitro test to be sufficient for classifying a substance as a hazard for causing allergy-type responses (sensitizers).
Designating a substance as a sensitizer has consequences with obligations for hazard communication on Safety Data Sheets and labeling, along with regulatory and market pressure for product de-selection and phaseout. That is reason enough to require policies and approaches that lead to scientifically accurate determinations. But there are big-picture implications of direct regulatory endorsement of a ‰??one-and-done‰?? in vitro testing approach. This precedent will certainly be pointed to as sufficient basis for making other consequential hazard designations, such as endocrine disruption and carcinogenicity.
TSCA reform legislation didn‰??t call for substances to be subject to labeling based on a single fluorescing test tube. Yet the pilot policy floated by the EPA in April opens that path. The goal of reducing animal testing and a plan to identify information of equivalent or better scientific quality ended up at a flow chart rendering the fluorescence of a single protein on the surface of artificially maintained cells sufficient to make a significant regulatory and commercial hazard designation. The path from the initial goal to this flow chart illustrates how this pilot implementation establishes a precedent for conferring hazard designations that carry regulatory and precautionary burdens without requiring that dots be connected between cellular responses and adverse health effects.
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GLYPHOSATE WILL NOT BE LISTED AS A CARCINOGEN IN CALIFORNIA
https://www.agweb.com/article/glyphosate-will-not-be-listed-as-a-carcinogen-in-california/
Tags: us_CA, public, discovery, environmental, ag_chems
Earlier this week a California judge ruled glyphosate does not need a label warning stating it causes cancer. U.S. District Court Judge William Shuff denied an amendment that asked the state to require the warning.
The court issued its preliminary injunction Feb. 26, 2018, which blocked the enforcement of Proposition 65‰??requirement for any product known to cause cancer to be labeled. This week‰??s ruling denies the California Attorney General‰??s attempt to amend the court‰??s decision.
In the preliminary injunction the judge states: ‰??It is inherently misleading for a warning to state that a chemical is known to the state of California to cause cancer based on the finding of only one organization (International Agency for Research on Cancer‰??IARC‰??which only found that substance is probably carcinogenic), when apparently all other regulatory and governmental bodies have found the opposite, including EPA.‰??
Even with additional evidence provided by the state‰??s Attorney General in this case, the judge ruled in favor of the chemical‰??s safety. ‰??The heavy weight of evidence in record is that glyphosate is not known to cause cancer.‰??
The National Association of Wheat Growers led the charge to defend glyphosate and were joined by a broad group of agricultural organizations and companies.
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