While chlorine is used in the manufacturing of chemicals we use all the time such as paper, cloth and pesticides, it's more common use is to kill harmful bacteria in drinking water and swimming pool ...

Producing this critical item consumes vast amounts of electricity, with current electrodes relying on noble metals that are ...

WEST LAFAYETTE, Ind. – The same sanitizing agent used to rid federal office buildings of anthrax – chlorine dioxide gas – can effectively eliminate deadly bacteria from apples and other fruits and ...

An Olin Chemical chlorine leak last week that sent poisonous chlorine gas wafting into neighborhoods in Plaquemine and prompted 39 people to go to the hospital released an estimated 6,512 pounds of ...

An explosive new study has found that nearly 60 years after nuclear tests were performed in the Pacific Ocean, radioactive chlorine is still leaking from ice sheets in Antarctica. The research says ...

City-parish officials have agreed to pay state regulators $36,000 to settle old allegations that Baton Rouge's north sewage treatment plant failed to keep up with hazardous materials planning for ...

Oneida, N.Y. — Chlorine gas built up Friday morning in the wastewater treatment facility in Oneida, Madison County, at levels five times over what is considered safe, firefighters said. The Syracuse ...

Army Sgt. Joshua Farbro walked into the ring of rapidly yellowing vegetation to investigate the booms echoing through Kisatchie National Forest in Louisiana. Other soldiers reported a staccato of ...