For years, the US Environmental Protection Agency has required companies that use potentially dangerous amounts of hazardous chemicals to file worst-case accident scenarios. After 9/11, that information was removed from the agency’s website, but the Right-to-Know Network, a watchdog group, has posted the information. These 18 Charlotte sites are included in the group’s database:
• BIC Consumer Products Mfg. Co, Inc. — Distribution
• Brenntag Southeast Inc.
•Americold logistics, LLC
• Winn-Dixie Logistics, Inc., Charlotte Distribution Center
• Charlotte General Products, TRANSFLO Terminal Services, Inc.
• Cognis Corporation / Charlotte, NC Mfg. Plant
• Franklin Water Treatment Plant, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities
• Genpak LLC-Charlotte
• JCI Jones Chemicals, Inc.
• Linde Gas, LLC Charlotte (formerly Holox, LTD)
• Mallard Creek Polymers, Inc.
• Noveon Textile Chemicals, Inc.
• Rohm and Haas Company — Charlotte Plant
• Snyder Production Center, Coca-Cola Bottling Co. Consolidated
• Sterigenics EO, Inc.
• US Food Service, Inc.
• UNIVAR USA INC.
• Vest Water Treatment Plant, Charlotte-Mecklenburg Utilities
This article appears in Sep 7-13, 2005.
