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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: Asymmetric who wrote (347976)9/2/2017 3:52:09 AM
From: Asymmetric  Read Replies (2) of 540756
 
Acid Rain, Poison Air, and Chemical Explosions Among Hurricane Harvey’s Scary Potential Side-Effects
Kat Armstrong / Brit + Co / Sep 1, 2017

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..."years of poor environmental planning have left the state in a precarious situation. Texas is the home of the country’s petrochemical industry and the Galveston National Laboratory houses some of the worlds deadliest airborne diseases.

..." Within Harris County, where Houston is located, are a number of chemical-laden Superfund Sites. These areas in and around the city are highly contaminated and had already been earmarked for clean-up by the EPA. Unfortunately now, due to flooding, anything once housed in those dangerous sites are all but guaranteed to have been released into the environment.

...At the Galveston National Laboratory, things are equally as bleak. This lab is home to some of the most deadly biological agents on the planet, and no one knows if it even has electricity anymore, meaning that the lab’s safety measures may be turned off — allowing deadly airborne diseases and other biological weaponry free into the atmosphere....

With all these highly dangerous chemical agents in a state that is in the regular path of hurricanes and other weather related disasters, the state legislature has repeatedly refused to pass laws that would have strengthened infrastructure in order to avoid such a terrifying calamity from happening.
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