Chlorine is a toxic gas used in disinfectants and cleaning products. Exposure causes eye, lung, and skin irritation, and lung fluid buildup. Children and asthma patients are at higher risk. No ...

Trails in Grand Canyon National Park were closed due to a chlorine gas leak. Chlorine is used as a disinfectant in the Roaring Springs area of the park. The trails have since reopened NORTH RIM, Ariz.

When thousands of pounds of toxic, greenish-yellow gas poured from Olin Corporation's Freeport facility on May 20, nearby residents said they had no warning about the largest industrial leak of ...

Clordisys, headquartered in Branchburg, New Jersey, announces the publication of Chlorine Dioxide Medical Device Sterilization: Residual Toxicity Testing in the Journal of Medical and Biological ...

A massive fire broke out on Sunday morning at a chemical factory 30 miles east of Atlanta, Georgia, causing large-scale evacuations and the shutdown of Interstate 20 after chlorine gas was detected in ...

City-parish officials have agreed to pay state regulators $36,000 to settle old allegations that Baton Rouge's north sewage treatment plant failed to keep up with hazardous materials planning for ...