The U.S. Chemical Safety Board revealed that BioLab was storing 14 million pounds of solid oxidizers—more than twice the amount it had previously reported—before the 2024 fire in Rockdale County. The ...
The insurer also alleges the facility lacked adequate fire protection systems for water-reactive chemicals and failed to ...
Last September, a chemical fire in Conyers, Georgia, sent a toxic cloud over the area. A Georgia Public Broadcasting podcast called “Manufacturing Danger: The BioLab Story” examined that day, what led ...
The nonprofit publication Capital & Main produced this article. It is co-published with permission. Even today, more than five years later, residents still talk about the fire. The chemical facility ...
The proposed closure of the CSB follows several other moves by the Trump administration to slash staffing levels at the Environmental Protection Agency and ease federal health and safety regulations.