Another senior employee at a chemical company is facing criminal charges connected to a 2017 explosion at a Houston-area plant following Hurricane Harvey.
Keough falsely told officials that Arkema was monitoring potentially explosive chemical tanks in real time when the company had insufficient data to give early warning, according to District Attorney Kim Ogg. These"misrepresentations" led two sheriff's deputies to drive directly into a toxic cloud, which then spread to exposing others, she said.
"There has, quite literally, never been a prosecution like this one for one singular reason — what Mike did wasn't a crime" Cogdell said in a statement. Ogg acknowledged during a press conference that criminal charges are rarely brought against company employees over environmental violations, but said civil regulations have proven insufficient to protect the public.
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