House Panel Says West Virginia Chemical Firm Withheld Information About Explosion

New York Times by Matthew L. Wald | Apr. 22, 2009 (News Report)

When a huge explosion occurred last August at a West Virginia chemical plant, managers refused for several hours to tell emergency responders the nature of the blast or the toxic chemical it released, and they later misused a law intended to keep information from terrorists to try to stop federal investigators from learning what had happened, members of a House subcommittee said Tuesday Full Story »

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Good NYT coverage. It adds the information that the plant was previously owned by none less than Union Carbide. The West Virginia Chronicle article has more other detail.

Who let this corporate nightmare develop after we have known about Bhopal for two decades?

88 percent of the 2,000 documents it had marked as being “security sensitive” were not. More »

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