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DuPont Won't Reopen La Porte Plant

06.04.2016 - DuPont will not reopen its herbicide plant at La Porte, Texas, idled since a leak of 24,000 lbs of methyl mercaptan killed four employees at the facility in November 2014. In...

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Lab Technician Sues DuPont in Whistleblower Case

31.08.2015 - A former lab technician at DuPont’s La Porte, Texas, herbicide plant has filed a lawsuit against the Delaware chemical giant, claiming she was terminated because of her repeated...

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Texas Lawmakers Propose Chemical Information Sharing

19.02.2015 - Two years after the devastating explosion at a fertilizer plant in West, Texas, and three months after four workers were killed in a chemical leak at a DuPont plant in La Porte...

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DuPont Under Scrutiny Over Texas Plant Deaths

10.12.2014 - DuPont is under scrutiny from US federal records over a series of accidents involving toxic chemicals over the past seven years. At least eight fatalities have resulted from the 34...