For additional reports on converting to safer processes, click on "Converting to Safer Chemical Processes" above.

Unprepared for Disaster: Chemical Hazards in the Wake of Hurricane Ida (Coming Clean, 2021)

Life at the Fenceline  (Environmental Justice Health Alliance (EJHA, 2018)

La Vida Al Borde: Life at the Fenceline en Español (EJHA et al, 2018)

A Disaster in the Making (Earthjustice et al, 2018)

Chlorine Bleach Plants Needlessly Endanger Millions (Greenpeace report, 2016)

Living in the Shadow of Danger (Center for Effective Government, 2016)

Living in the Shadow of Danger: State Scorecards (Center for Effective Government, 2015)

Blowing Smoke: Chemical Companies Say “Trust Us,” But Environmental and Workplace Safety Violations Belie Their Rhetoric (Center for Effective Government, 2015)

Chemical Hazards in Your Backyard: Do Your First Responders Have the Information They Need in an Emergency? (Center for Effective Government, 2015)

Kids in Danger Zones: One in Three U.S. Schoolchildren at Risk from Chemical Catastrophes (Center for Effective Government, 2014)

Who's in Danger? Race, Poverty and Chemical Disasters, A Demographic Analysis of Chemical Disaster Vulnerability Zones (EJHA, 2014)

Who's in Danger? Appendix C: Vulnerability Zones of 3,433 Chemical Facilities (EJHA, 2014).

Danger in the Dark (New Jersey Work Environment Council, 2014)

A Risk Too Great: Hydrofluoric Acid in U.S. Refineries (United Steelworkers, 2013)

A Risk Too Great: Hydrofluoric Acid in U.S. Refineries (United Steelworkers, 2013) 

Toxic Trains and the Terrorist Threat (Center for American Progress, 2009)

Clorox Converts to Safer Processes: First Announcement (Clorox, 2009)

Economic and Employment Benefits of the Chemical and Water Security Act of 2009 (Management Information Services Inc. (MISI), 2010)

MISI Full Report (MISI, 2010)

MISI Report Summary (MISI, 2010)

MISI Report Fact Sheet (MISI,2010)

Chemical Security 101: What You Don’t Have Can’t Leak, or Be Blown Up by Terrorists (Center for American Progress, 2008) 

Toxic Trains and the Terrorists Threat, How Water Utilities Can Get Chlorine Gas Off the Rails and Out of American Communities (Center for American Progress, 2007)

Preventing Toxic Terrorism, How Some Chemical Facilities are Removing Danger to American Communities (Center for American Progress, 2006)  

Below you will find a collection of websites with useful material related to chemical disasters. Scroll down on this tab to see federal agency data and state agency data. 

Coming Clean: Safer Chemical and Facilities

Earthjustice: Healthy Communities

Environmental Justice Health Alliance for Chemical Policy Reform: Chemical Disasters and Security

Good Jobs First: Violation Tracker

United Steelworkers: Health, Safety and Environment

U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board

U.S. Environmental Protection Agency: Risk Management Plan

U.S. Occupational Safety and Health Administration: Process Safety Management page

New Jersey Toxic Catastrophe Prevention Act

Federal Agency Data

Chemical Safety Board Investigations

Coast Guard: National Response Center Database (spreadsheets by year)

National Transportation Safety Board Hazardous Materials Accident Reports

NOAA: Incident News

Pipeline & Hazardous Materials Safety Administration (PHMSA): Incidents Database

PHMSA Pipeline Failure Investigation Reports

State Agency Data

Alaska Statewide Oil and Hazardous Substance Spills Database

Arizona Hazardous Materials Logbook

California HazMat Spill Release Reporting Database

Connecticut Spill Incidents

Florida Hazardous Materials/Petroleum Spills

Hawai’i Incidents

Illinois Emergency Management Agency Hazardous Materials Incident Reports

Indiana Spills List

Kansas Spills Map

Maine Spills and Site Cleanup and Spills & Site Cleanup Monitoring and Reporting

Massachusetts Energy & Environmental Affairs Data Portal (includes enforcement and spills)

Missouri Environmental Incident Search

Nebraska Leaking Underground Storage Tanks and Surface Spills

Nevada Site Cleanup Database

New York State Spill Incidents Database

North Carolina Underground Storage Tank Databases and Reports

North Dakota Environmental Incidents Reports

Ohio - Spills and Reported Releases 

Oregon Environmental Cleanup Site Information Database

South Dakota Environmental Events Database

Tennessee Department of Environment & Conservation - Enforcement Program

Texas Air Emissions Report Database

Utah Environmental Incidents Database

Vermont Spills List

Washington State Spills Map

Wisconsin Bureau for Remediation and Redevelopment Tracking System

Wyoming Spills and Complaints

Texas legislators eye tougher rules on chemical tanks to prevent explosions, spills during storms (Texas Tribune, 2021)

Fact Sheet and Photos from a Philadelphia refinery HF fire and explosion (U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board (CSB), 2019)

 Maps of U.S. Facilities & Cumulative Risks (EJHA)

Press Release on RMP Rollback Rule (Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, 2019)

Sen Biden Water Secrity Bill Release (Sen Biden, 2006)

Letter opposing use of CRA to overturn Obama RMP Amendments (EJHA, 2017)

Fact Sheet on Obama RMP amendments (Coalition to Prevent Chemical Disasters, 2017)

Chemical Break Down, an award winning 8 part investigative series (Houston Chronicle, 2016)

Statements by Obama & Biden in Senate & their administration supporting IST to make chemical plants safer (2006-2013)

Rand Beers Department of Homeland Security support IST at House Energy & Commerce Committee hearing (2011)

Fact sheets on safer alternatives & list of 554 water treatment plant conversions (Center for American Progress, 2010-2006)

Texas City BP Refinery Disaster Report and Video (U.S. Chemical Safety and Hazard Investigation Board, 2005) (also available in Spanish and other languages)

Poll Shows Bi-Partisan Support for New Rules to Prevent Chemical Disasters (Coalition to Prevent National Disasters, 2015)

Examples of Joe Biden’s leadership in the U.S. Senate to advance policies to prevent catastrophic disasters at chemical plants and on rail ways:

Statements by Senators Biden (D-DE) and Jeffords (I-VT) and the text of their bill "Community Water Treatment Hazards Reduction Act of 2006" (S.2855) on pages S.4805 to S.4807 of the Congressional Record (May 18, 2006)

Statement of Senator Biden and the text of his hazardous chemicals rail security bill, "Hazardous Materials Vulnerability Reduction Act of 2005" (S.256) on pages S.6743 to S.6746 of the Congressional Record (June 16, 2005)

Sen Biden Floor Amt to Re-Route Rail Trans of HazMats

Sen Biden Quotes on Chemical Safety & Security (2005-2007)

Sen Biden Water Secrity Bill Release (May 19 2006)