The Pirates of Illiopolis. Sandra Steingraber.
by Steingraber, Sandra; ProQuest Information and Learning Company.
Series: SIRS Enduring Issues 2006Article 56Environment. Publisher: Orion, 2005ISSN: 1522-3205;.Subject(s): Chemicals -- Transportation | Dioxins | Disasters | Hazardous substances -- Health aspects | Industrial accidents | Polyvinyl chloride | Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Polluta | TerrorismDDC classification: 050 Summary: "At 10:40 P.M. on April 23, 2004, a PVC [polyvinyl chloride] plant in Illiopolis, Illinois, blew up....The disaster made headlines all around the globe, and it was spectacular by all accounts. The blast killed four workers outright--a fifth would die twenty days later--and sent into the night sky a hundred-foot fireball. This ball, once it faded from view, left behind a dark, hovering mass that drifted slowly over the landscape like some kind of evil UFO. Four towns were evacuated, several highways closed, a no-fly zone declared, and three hundred firefighters from twenty-seven surrounding communities battled the flames for three days." (ORION) This article examines the hazardous environmental and health risks posed by the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride.| Item type | Current location | Call number | Status | Date due |
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Originally Published: The Pirates of Illiopolis, May/June 2005; pp. 16-27.
"At 10:40 P.M. on April 23, 2004, a PVC [polyvinyl chloride] plant in Illiopolis, Illinois, blew up....The disaster made headlines all around the globe, and it was spectacular by all accounts. The blast killed four workers outright--a fifth would die twenty days later--and sent into the night sky a hundred-foot fireball. This ball, once it faded from view, left behind a dark, hovering mass that drifted slowly over the landscape like some kind of evil UFO. Four towns were evacuated, several highways closed, a no-fly zone declared, and three hundred firefighters from twenty-seven surrounding communities battled the flames for three days." (ORION) This article examines the hazardous environmental and health risks posed by the manufacture of polyvinyl chloride.
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