Chemical Used in Many Oil Refineries Could Cause Mass Deaths If Leaked
An aerial view shows Marathon Petroleum Corp s Los Angeles Refinery, the state s largest producer of gasoline, as oil prices have cratered with the spread of the coronavirus pandemic on April 22, 2020, in Carson, California.
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The morning of Wednesday, February 18, 2015, had started just like any other day for Summer Spencer. Back then, she was a sixth grader at South High School in Torrance, a coastal city in the South Bay region of Los Angeles County. But at around 9am, Spencer and her classmates were given a ‘shelter in place’ order by their teacher. It was, the now 17-year-old says, pretty exciting at first. “I just figured I might not have to go to my next class.”