Industrial

The small chemical plant owned by Hoffmann-La Roche subsidiary ICMESA near Meda, 15 km (10

People characterized as NIMBYs (‘Not In My Back Yarders’) are the curse of would-be developers

Don’t always trust a US Federal Mine Inspector – that was the painful lesson learned

Coal was the life-blood of industry in South Wales, with whole communities dependent on the

Just one year after Nova Scotia’s Springhill community went into mourning for miners lost in

Canada’s Springhill coalfield in Nova Scotia opened in the 19th century, and was the scene

Generating electricity by means of nuclear energy was a young industry in 1957. The Windscale

Nuclear fission was a sensitive subject in the Soviet Union during the Cold War years

Sometimes painful history lessons aren’t learned. Sometimes they are simply ignored. Either way, the disastrous

America prides itself on defending national shores and protecting its people against hostile incursion in

At first, nobody noticed a cloud of vapor pouring from an Ohio Gas Company storage

Being a coal miner in China has never been the easiest or safest of careers,

It seems bizarre that one of the USA’s worst-ever industrial disasters happened without a single

Ignorance can be bliss – until disaster strikes. Before World War I the BASF (Badische

The Purity Distilling Company was an alcohol manufacturer based in the North End area of

West Virginia and mining go together like coal and dust, which means the impoverished state