Chemical Plants Could Be Threats, Collins Says ; the Maine Senator Warns That Terrorists Could Use the Sites As Weapons of Mass Destruction.
Portland Press Herald › April 28, 2005
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A January train crash in Graniteville, S.C., released chlorine gas that killed 10 people. In April 2004, a tanker truck delivering allyl alcohol in Dalton, Ga., began spewing a toxic cloud that required decontamination of 154 people.
In 2002 in Pascagoula, Miss., an explosion at a chemical plant hurled pieces of metal, some weighing up to 6 tons, as far as a mile away.See the full content of this document
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Chemical Plants Could Be Threats, Collins Says ; the Maine Senator Warns That Terrorists Could Use the Sites As Weapons of Mass Destruction.
The examples - all accidents - were cited during a Senate hearing Wednesday to show how vulnerable the country is to terrorist attacks on chemical facilities.
"To us, these facilities are v...See the full content of this document
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