Source: https://www.courthousenews.com/, August 13, 2022
By: Gabriel Tynes

Jerome Haley said he often hears alarms sounding at the Olin plant in McIntosh, Alabama. So often in fact, that he and his neighbors pay little attention to them anymore.

Years ago, Haley said, management at the Olin plant and a neighboring chemical plant, which at the time was owned by Ciba-Geigy, would openly communicate with the neighborhood about alarms, threats, risks and other protocols at the plants. More recently Haley said that cooperation has ended, and the neighborhood only found out about releases of deadly chlorine gas from the Olin plant well after the fact. Read more.