...nearby residents ? and emergency responders ? completely by surprise.The disaster also has spurred new scrutiny of chemical plant safety in cities such as Augusta, where 14 major industries make, use or store more than 109 million pounds of...
...the community believe should be a racial balance ? five black members and five white members.Aitken, a white chemical plant worker with a prison ministry, surprised many when he won election in the 65 percent black District 1 in 2009.Watching...
...are investigating the death of a man at an Augusta chemical plant, authorities said.William Fulcher, Atlanta east...with Vladimir Korey officiating.A call to General Chemical plant manager Alan Hampton was not returned Wednesday.
...scenarios include high-speed trains being put on collision courses, blackouts that last days or perhaps even weeks or chemical plants that inadvertently release deadly gases.Panetta underscored the looming dangers during a speech last week in New...
...or 29.91 percent."We did extremely well, especially with it being a presidential election," said Aitken, a chemical plant worker, at a victory party as vote totals confirmed the runoff. "I'm very excited about the confidence the voters...
An Augusta chemical plant was evacuated Sunday evening after a small chemical fire broke out...m., firefighters responded to Finnchem USA Inc., a Kemira chemical plant at 2360 Doug Barnard Parkway, in reference to a chemical fire...
Equipment failure was blamed for a minor hydrochloric acid spill at the Olin Chemical plant in Augusta, according to an incident report filed by the company with the National Response Center.The spill occurred about...
...argued many appellate cases before the State and Federal courts. He filed a lawsuit for 115 former employees of a chemical plant in Brunswick and that suit resulted in a settlement for the former workers of twenty million dollars. In 1992 he...
...today, and it looked like a scene out of the TV show Swamp People. It looks like all they wanted was to close down chemical plants and enlist new members ? and of course pat themselves on the back. COMCAST CUSTOMERS, read your monthly bill. I...
...escalating building boom is being fed by caprolactam, a raw ingredient for carpet fiber, that is made at the DSM Chemicals plant in Augusta. That factory and its hundreds of jobs depend on the Savannah River for steam and cooling water.Plenty...
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