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CSB Asks OSHA to Improve MSDSs for Nonconductive Flammable Liquids After Barton Solvents Investigation
The U.S. Chemical Safety Board (CSB) released a case study and safety video on the July 2007 explosion and fire at the Barton Solvents distribution facility in Valley Center, Kansas. The CSB found the most likely cause of the explosion—involving what is known as a nonconductive flammable liquid—was a static spark resulting from a loosely linked level-measuring float within the tank. The spark ignited the air-vapor mixture inside the tank as it was being filled.
Nonconductive flammable liquids can accumulate and maintain static electrical energy, which discharges more slowly than from more conductive liquids. In addition, some of these liquids can form ignitable vapor-air mixtures insid
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Washington Adopts New Climate Change Rules
The State of Washington is continuing to lead the fight against global climate change by adopting the nation’s first standards for underground injection of climate-changing carbon dioxide.
In addition, the Washington Department of Ecology (Ecology) has adopted a rule that sets an emissions performance standard for power plants that emit greenhouse gases. Fossil-fuel fired power plants are significant sources of carbon dioxide, a major greenhouse gas that traps heat in the atmosphere and increases global temperatures. Increased temperatures contribute to climate change.
The 2007 Washington Legislature directed state agencies to develop and adopt rules for power plant emissions and geologic sequestration of carbon dioxide by June 30, 2008.
Ecology’s Water Quality Program amended
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