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LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed

October 9, 2025 News Editor Comments Off on LOUISIANA: Oil, Soot From Smitty’s Fire Persists, EPA Blamed

ROSELAND, Louisiana, October 9, 2025 (ENS) – On August 22, an explosion erupted at Smitty’s Supply, a lubricant manufacturing facility in Roseland, a town about 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge. The blaze swept through the 15-acre complex that housed half a million gallons of flammable materials. […]

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WWII Munitions, DDT Remain on Southern California Seafloor

January 7, 2024 News Editor Comments Off on WWII Munitions, DDT Remain on Southern California Seafloor

SAN DIEGO, California, January 7, 2024 (ENS) – Tons of munitions, petrochemicals, chemicals from manufacturing the pesticide DDT, and other hazardous materials were dumped for decades in deep ocean basins off the coast of Los Angeles, scientists from three California universities are discovering. […]