Projet de workshop en partenariat avec Arkema, février 2019

Just so you know, Maddow’s been watching this plant for a few days. She interviewed an expert about it last night and he said that, beyond the failed cooling activities, the company COULD have neutralized the chemicals in the plant but it would have, then, made them unsellable. Of course, he also admitted that he was working from a 2015 report on the chemicals housed in the plant because the Texas governor (when he was Texas AG) helped put a law through in Texas that said no one in the public was allowed to know what was housed in chemical plants.  So that’s nice.  

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A group of Texas first responders filed suit against chemical company Arkema Thursday, alleging the company did not adequately warn them of the risks of chemical exposure while they attended to a plant fire outside of Houston last week.

In the suit, the seven plaintiffs say they were "overwhelmed" by vomiting after coming in contact with fumes at the plant, describing a scene "nothing less than chaos."

The suit also accuses the company of failing to properly secure chemical facilities after Hurricane Harvey. The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) separately ordered Arkema to provide details of the explosion last week, which was caused by flood-related power outages that cut off refrigeration for the plant's chemical stores.

Arkema, a worldwide chief in Specialty Materials, and Semcorp, a worldwide main producer of lithium-ion battery separators, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to set up a strategic collaboration aimed toward accelerating innovation in battery separator applied sciences and supporting Semcorp in its worldwide enlargement. Arkema and Semcorp have signed an MoU to collaborate on…