When used as a chemical weapon, chlorine gas disperses so rapidly that evidence of its release can be hard to find. “With most nerve agents, we have biomarkers that are stable in the environment that ...

About half of Apex was included in an evacuation last week because officials feared a fire at a hazardous-waste handler had released a cloud of toxic chlorine gas over the town. But a company ...

The Syrian government dropped chlorine gas on Saraqib on Feb. 4, 2018, according to a report published earlier this month by the Organisation for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). This ...

AMSTERDAM/BEIRUT, April 29 (Reuters) - The global chemical weapons watchdog overseeing the destruction of Syria's toxic stockpile will send a fact-finding mission to Syria to investigate allegations ...

Six days after a state Senate panel killed legislation that would have required real-time air monitoring along the edges of major Louisiana industrial facilities, an Olin Chemical subsidiary had a ...

Fifteen of the 101 highest-hazard U.S. chemical facilities are water utilities. These 15 facilities together endanger some 17 million people. Eleven of these facilities treat drinking water using ...

Chlorine dioxide (ClO 2), also known as chlorine peroxide and chlorine(IV) oxide, is a low-boiling red-brown liquid and yellow-green gas. It has an odd number of valence electrons, which makes it an ...

A leak of dangerous chlorine gas at a plant near Plaquemine was worse than it was reported to be at the time, regulators and parish officials said. That means a shelter-in-place order for local ...

FREEPORT, Texas (AP) — A chlorine leak at a Texas chemical plant on Tuesday prompted officials to ask residents in two Texas cities near the facility to shelter in place. Chlorine gas was released ...