Chemical Plant
Dow Chemical's Pittsburg plant is the largest integrated chemical complex of its kind on the West Coast. Built in 1939, it covers 500 acres, and employs 500 people in the production of pesticides and herbicides, as well as latex and paper coatings.
A chemical plant that manufactures sulfuric acid from waste acid and sulfur. Several incidents over the years have caused alarm in the surrounding community. In 1993, the plant emitted a cloud of sulfuric acid that covered an eight square mile area, and sent 24,000 people to the hospital.
This remote plant employs a few hundred people in an intensely industrialized site on the edge of the Great Salt Lake. It produces all the magnesium metal made in the United States, a material used mostly in metals. For many years, according to the EPA, this plant was the nation’s worst air...
A large chemical plant that produces chlorine, fertilizer components, and potassium carbonates and bicarbonates, which are used in products such as detergent, chocolate, and fire extinguishers. Partially operated by Church and Dwight (the makers of Arm and Hammer baking soda, which was owned by the...
A large Shell Chemical plant on an 800 acre site on the Mississippi River. The plant is one of the world's largest producer of surficants, chemicals used in detergents and lubricants, and also makes ethylenes, such as those used in anti-freezes. About 500 employees work at the site, which is...