Westlake Chemical Encounters Unscheduled Shutdown of Petro II Ethylene Unit in Lake Charles
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HOUSTON, Sept. 11  /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ -- Westlake Chemical Corporation  announced today that it has encountered mechanical problems with a compressor and related equipment at its Petro II ethylene unit in Lake Charles, Louisiana, resulting in an unscheduled shutdown of that unit.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska  - BP Plc. BP.L BP.N,   working to restore Prudhoe Bay crude oil output after a   two-month reduction, closed the adjacent Lisburne oil field in   Alaska on Thursday due to a methane gas leak, the company said   on Friday.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Sep. 11--Due to a broken water main, a boil water notice has been issued for residents who live in the areas of Bayou Circle between 55th Street and Lawson Avenue.
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The government has found traces of a rocket fuel chemical in organic milk in Maryland, green leaf lettuce grown in Arizona and bottled spring water from Texas and California. What's not clear is the significance of the data, collected by the Food and Drug Administration through Aug. 19.
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By Stanley Ziemba, Chicago Tribune  Mar. 9--A forklift punctured a drum containing a chemical used in producing plastics at a Willow Springs plant late Wednesday, creating noxious fumes that sent eight workers at a nearby UPS facility to the hospital, officials said Thursday.
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By La Crosse Tribune, Wis.  Feb. 15--Overheated cooking oil likely sparked the fire early Tuesday that gutted a duplex at 807-809 Vine St., La Crosse fire officials said.
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By Robert Crowe, Houston Chronicle  Dec. 19--Four people were taken to hospitals after a 55-gallon drum of sulfuric acid exploded Monday night at a southeast Houston chemical plant.   The fire started about 8:20 p.m. at SET Environmental Inc., 5738 Cheswood.
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Residents of a northern California  town have sued ChevronTexaco Corp CVX.N over a refinery  shutdown that they claim spewed dangerous gases into the air  and caused health problems.
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By The Sun Herald, Biloxi, Miss.  Jun. 13--GULFPORT -- City officials have issued a boil water notice for residents who live in the are bounded by Amtico Drive on the west, Reynosa Drive on the east, Castille Drive on the south and Anita Street on the north after a water main broke.
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By Sean Boone, Walton Sun, Santa Rosa Beach, Fla.  Jun. 2--It has been nearly two years since the environmental debate surrounding Eastern Lake began, and problems continue to exist.
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By Joe Morris  morris@wvgazette.com  The DuPont plant chemical leak and fire that spread a fishy odor over much of the Kanawha Valley on Saturday evening posed no health threat, according to plant officials.
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TACOMA, Wash. - A chlorine leak Monday night at a chemical plant on this city's waterfront injured 12 people and prompted the evacuation of the surrounding industrial area, a fire official said.
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NPRA, the National Petrochemical & Refiners Association, today released  the following statement on EPA's Mobile Source  Air Toxics (MSAT) Phase 2 Final Rule to reduce hazardous air pollutants,  including benzene and other hydrocarbons, in motor fuels and vehicles.
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By Allison Connolly, The Baltimore Sun  Feb. 27--Three Millennium Chemicals properties here are being sold again, this time to a foreign owner. In all, more than 400 workers in the Baltimore area would be affected.   Lyondell Chemical Co.
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NASA&#39;s Michoud plant in eastern New Orleans will slowly resume construction of external fuel tanks for the space shuttle in the new year, a plant executive said Tuesday, marking the first time
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By Tom Vogt, The Columbian, Vancouver, Wash.  Jun. 26--County officials have closed Klineline Pond to swimmers today after tests showed the water was contaminated.
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BP Plc BP.L this week will conduct   safety tests and seek permission to restart part of the eastern   Prudhoe Bay oil field pipeline in Alaska that was shut due to   corrosion, the company told Congress on Tuesday.