Toxic Fallout: The Ohio Chemical Spill That Deregulation Helped Create
When budget cuts and broken safeguards collide, it’s rural America left choking in the plume.
The Spill: A Town Engulfed in Acid
Just after sunrise on June 11th, residents of McArthur, Ohio woke to the kind of nightmare you can’t smell coming until it’s too late. A 5,000-gallon nitric acid tank ruptured at the Austin Powder Company’s explosives facility, releasing a corrosive yellow-orange plume that crept silently over the tree line and into the…
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