Search results
Results from the WOW.Com Content Network
In March 2015, he was called to testify in front of the House Oversight Committee regarding the management of the Chemical Safety Board. Following that testimony fourteen members of the committee issued a letter to the White House calling on the president to use his statutory authority to remove Moure-Eraso from his position as chairman of the CSB.
Calgon Carbon Corporation was founded as the Pittsburgh Coke and Chemical Corporation in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, which later merged with the Hillman Coal and Coke Company. Initially the company manufactured products such as coke fuel in support of the local steel industry .
About 23,000 residents of Pittsburgh were without water for a week. [4] About 1,200 residents of Jefferson Borough were asked to evacuate due to fear of an explosion in the area from a gasoline leak. [2] Water shortages occurred for areas as far as 200 miles down river. This oil spill was one of the largest inland oil spills at the time of ...
This is a list of Superfund sites in Pennsylvania designated under the Comprehensive Environmental Response, Compensation, and Liability Act (CERCLA) environmental law.The CERCLA federal law of 1980 authorized the United States Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to create a list of polluted locations requiring a long-term response to clean up hazardous material contaminations. [1]
The Hillman Coal and Coke Company was a bituminous coal mining company based in Pittsburgh, PA. [1]The company was formed by John Hartwell Hillman Sr. [2] He established the Hillman Coal and Coke Company, and J. H. Hillman & Sons, which was eventually run by his three sons. [3]
Columbia-Southern Chemical Corporation was a subsidiary of Pittsburgh Plate Glass Company. [ 1 ] [ 2 ] It produced heavy industrial chemicals for industry and agriculture, including: [ 3 ] anhydrous ammonia , caustic soda , chlorine , titanium tetrachloride , and soda ash .
Pennsylvania, Ohio and West Virginia engaged in a tax competition for the plant. In 2012, Pennsylvania structured a deal requiring Shell to invest at least $1 billion in Pennsylvania and create at least 2,500 construction jobs in exchange for a 25-year tax incentive of $66 million per year and tied to production, reducing Shell's tax by up to 20 per cent.
Diamond Alkali Company was an American chemical company incorporated in 1910 in West Virginia by a group of glass industry businessmen from Pittsburgh. The company soon established a large chemical plant at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, which would operate for over sixty years. In 1947, the headquarters of the company was moved from Pittsburgh to ...