With Neighbors Unaware, Toxic Spill at a BP Plant

While the world was focused on the oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico, a BP refinery here released huge amounts of toxic chemicals into the air that went unnoticed by residents until many saw their children come down with respiratory problems. Full Story »

Posted by Chris Finnie - via New York Times (Most Emailed), David K. Miller (t), miker1717 (t), Steve Murray (t), Ellie Kesselman (t), JR Russ (t), Fabrice Florin (f)

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Kristin Gorski
3.6
by Kristin Gorski - Aug. 30, 2010

An important news report on another BP environmental accident. Details what has happened so far and features quotations from those interviewed on the ground, but still needs additional sources from the scientific/environmental community to put this into context and explain more facts behind what has happened.

Another BP environmental leak? And with documents that seem not to tell the whole story of what has happened? This sounds very familiar and it is bizarrely coincidental that this happened right in the middle of the BP oil disaster in the nearby Gulf (probably why BP tried to keep it quiet during this time).

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