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BioLab Inc. is a division of KiK Consumer Products that specializes in the manufacturing of chemicals for use in swimming pools. The company has faced ongoing scrutiny regarding its problematic safety record, most recently following a fire at its Conyers, Georgia plant which put 90,000 citizens of the region under shelter-in-place restrictions.
Mossville is a small, predominantly African American unincorporated community [1] on the outskirts of Lake Charles in Calcasieu Parish, Louisiana, United States.It is part of the Lake Charles Metropolitan Statistical Area and is sandwiched between the much larger and predominantly white towns of Sulphur to the west and Westlake to the east.
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This includes agriculture manufacturing, construction, and service industries. [11] Major industrial customers include rubber and plastic products, textiles, apparel, petroleum refining, pulp and paper, and primary metals. Chemicals are nearly a $5 trillion global enterprise, and the EU and U.S. chemical companies are the world's largest ...
A $1.3 billion chemical production facility to be built in Louisiana by Japanese conglomerate Mitsubishi is economically questionable and unnecessarily increases greenhouse gas emissions ...
A view of downtown Lake Charles, circa 1917. After World War II, Lake Charles experienced industrial growth with the onset of the petrochemical refining industries. The Lake Charles Civic Center, built on reclaimed land on the lakefront in the 1970s, hosted many national shows, acts, and pop singers such as Elvis Presley. The population of the ...
A $4 billion cost and schedule overrun at Sasol's Lake Charles project resulted in the resignation of the joint CEOs in October 2019. Adverse weather, poor subsurface conditions, and a "culture of fear" which undermined transparent reporting, were cited as contributing reasons for the over-runs. [49] [50] [51] [52]
In January 2022, an ethylene dichloride tank exploded at a Westlake facility in Westlake, Louisiana injuring 6 workers and triggering a shelter-in-place order. [13] Westlake facilities in Louisiana have had uncontrolled chemical releases including benzene, chloroform, ethylene dichloride, hydrogen chloride and vinyl chloride. [14]