Chemical plants — and petroleum plants, paper mills and other industrial facilities that use dangerous chemicals — are one of the nation's greatest vulnerabilities.
Demand for nondurable goods, ranging from food to petroleum and paper products, rose 1.5 percent in October after a 1.4 percent rise in September.
Hazardous wastes include harmful and dangerous substances generated primarily as liquids but also as solids, sludges, or gases by various chemical manufacturing companies, petroleum refineries, paper mills, smelters, machine shops, dry cleaners, automobile repair shops, and many other industries or commercial facilities.
Brothers lord over Koch Industries, maker of everything from petroleum to paper towels, fertilizer to fibers.
These toxic compounds (i.e., 4-nitrophenol) are prepared using a number of polluting techniques, such as industry-related ways of plastic, pesticides, paint, drugs, composites, antioxidant, petroleum, and paper production [22].
Textile dyes are aromatic compounds representing a major class of organic pollutants that are found in the waste effluent discharged by different industries such as textile, petroleum refining, paper and pulp, leather and plastics, wood preservation, etc.
The highly sustainable, versatile, useful crop poses a threat to corporate strongholds, leading powerful industries -- like petroleum, plastic, paper and cotton -- with a financial interest in the prohibition of hemp to invest money, time, and energy in the lobby.
Many industries represent the main sources of phenols such as iron and steel, petroleum, paint, paper and pulp, and pharmaceutics.
Workers engaging in petroleum refining, paper milling, chemical processing, and shoemaking were found to have an increased risk of gallbladder cancer development [ 6].
These include working in the aircraft industry; electronics, petroleum industry, paper mill worker, printer, metal-related occupations, paint, solvents, ionising radiation and electromagnetic fields (Gurney et al, 1999).
