Synopsis

In March of 2005, a devastating series of explosions ripped through the BP refinery in Texas City, Texas, destroying a significant portion of the plant and claiming the lives of fifteen workers. Consider also the perplexing events that led to the crash of American Airlines flight 587. What transpired in Times Beach, Missouri, when a local waste hauler coated the unpaved roads with oil contaminated by dioxin? Let us examine the failures surrounding NASA’s Skylab in 1974, and finally, consider the