Why Isn’t Hydrofluoric Acid Banned at Oil Refineries?
Legal Planet: Environmental Law and Policy 2025-02-19
Summary:
On the morning of Feb. 18, 2015, pent-up gases at ExxonMobil’s refinery in Torrance triggered an explosion so powerful it registered as a magnitude 1.7 earthquake and sent industrial ash over entire neighborhoods. It’s been called the near-miss disaster that most people have never heard of. But that near miss is raising new calls to … Continue reading "Why Isn’t Hydrofluoric Acid Banned at Oil Refineries?"