It's too bad that this disaster didn't get the attention it deserved due to the marathon bombing in Boston. These poor people don't have a Boston One Fund raising millions of dollars. They don't have universal health care as they do in Massachusetts. Texas has the lowest percentage of population insured of any state in the country.
By the time the investigation finds the company was at fault, it will be a page 8 story. The company will pay a few million dollar fine and perhaps some middle manager will go to jail. It's the same story as the BP oil spill, which ruined the Gulf for all eternity, the WV mine disaster, the Exxon tar oil spill in Arkansas, and on and on and on.
And do they have such a thing as a zoning board? Why was this plant allowed to exist next to an elementary school, a nursing home and an apartment house?
Even the president's attendance at the memorial service didn't bring the attention to this disaster that it deserved.
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