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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

DeSmogBlog

In 2007, the TCEQ raised its annual guideline from an average of 1 ppb to 1.4 As the global demand for plastics has grown, Texas also has become a hub for the petrochemical industry, which uses benzene in its production processes. On the afternoon of April 19, 2007, however, K-Solv grabbed just about everybody’s attention.

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Climate Change: Where Are We Now?

Unsustainable

The IPCC was an outgrowth of a 1987 Canadian conference which produced the Montreal Protocol , an international treaty designed to protect the ozone layer by phasing out the production of numerous substances that are responsible for ozone depletion. In June of 1988 James E. Chinese citizens?who