Toxic chemical leak at a manufacturing facility in Orange County

Post by spunker540 » Sun, May 24, 2026, 1:40 AM UTC

Ferret7446 wrote: post #78

yungbeto wrote: post #6

Worth mentioning that in February the EPA proposed to severely deregulate chemical facilities like the one in Garden Grove, gutting third-party audits, hazard reporting, and public transparency requirements. They titled it the ‘Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention.’ The public comment window closed just eleven days before this disaster… https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-02-24/pdf/2026-0...

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Post by SadErn » Sun, May 24, 2026, 1:47 AM UTC

mmooss wrote: post #12

They say it will fail for sure, either leak or explode. I wonder why they can't drain the tank into another facility. Maybe they just lack an appropriate container.

Post by lokar » Sun, May 24, 2026, 1:52 AM UTC

thephyber wrote: post #58

drivingmenuts wrote: post #38

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Yeah, what this administration calls common sense is more like dumbass sense than anything else. On almost every level.

To zoom out, there’s a HUGE percentage of the US who uses “common sense” as a catch-all excuse to end all discussion. In the debates I watch, they typically don’t have the mental capacity to steel man the opposition’s position so they can’t comprehend that someone else has a different intuition / “common sense” than them. Beyond that, “common sense” has become a dog whistle to both virtual signal / vice signal to lik…

Post by yungbeto » Sun, May 24, 2026, 2:01 AM UTC

Ferret7446 wrote: post #78

yungbeto wrote: post #6

Worth mentioning that in February the EPA proposed to severely deregulate chemical facilities like the one in Garden Grove, gutting third-party audits, hazard reporting, and public transparency requirements. They titled it the ‘Common Sense Approach to Chemical Accident Prevention.’ The public comment window closed just eleven days before this disaster… https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/FR-2026-02-24/pdf/2026-0...

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Post by bpodgursky » Sun, May 24, 2026, 2:09 AM UTC

crote wrote: post #43

Legend2440 wrote: post #32

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The plant has been around since at least the 1970s. At the time it likely was on the edge of town, but through 50 years of urban sprawl, the town grew around it. It may be even older than that. My source for the age of the site is this 1970 NASA ALSEP supplier list (from the moon program!), which lists the address as an approved manufacturer on page 38: https://www.lpi.usra.edu/lunar/ALSEP/pdf/31111000671279.pdf

Surely they've had to get new permits over time as their operations changed? And why didn't the presence of the plant prevent the town from growing around it? There's a home 430 feet away from it. At that point you didn't even try to create a buffer zone.