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Benzene was identified as a carcinogen and can cause various forms of leukemia from just five years of exposure.
EPA estimates show that exposure to benzene has affected 50% of the U.S. population through industrial sources.
Benzene News
June 18, 2007
Criminal Indictments in Barge Benzene Case
Today a federal grand jury in Bowling Green, Kentucky returned criminal indictments against the Canal Barge Company, Inc. (CBC) of Belle Chasse, Louisiana, and three CBC employees. The indictment alleges that in June 2005, CBC Barge 222 experienced a benzene leak while on the Ohio River in Henderson County, Kentucky, and that the defendant employees patched the leak, did not report it to the U.S. Coast Guard as required by law, and several days later passed the barge on to another barge company without informing the second company of the benzene link.
June 22, 2004
According to a new study released by the Environmental Integrity Project (EIP), the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and state governments may be underreporting refinery and chemical plant toxic air emissions. Benzene is one of the chemicals identified in the study, found at levels considered to be at a “startling magnitude”.
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