While chlorine is used in the manufacturing of chemicals we use all the time such as paper, cloth and pesticides, it's more common use is to kill harmful bacteria in drinking water and swimming pool ...

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Cleanup crews pumped toxic chlorine dioxide gas into the Hart Senate Office Building for much of the day Saturday in an attempt to kill all traces of anthrax contamination left ...

Bleach and vinegar are two of the most common household cleaners. On their own, they're effective at removing dirt, grime and even disinfecting surfaces. However, this doesn't mean that combining the ...

For decades, it has been one of the most significant toxic chemical risks in Silicon Valley — thousands of pounds of chlorine gas, stored in rail cars at San Jose’s sewage treatment plant in Alviso, ...

On Tuesday, reports that the Syrian government had dropped chlorine gas on rebel-held Aleppo called to mind horrific photographs from the Belgian fields of Ypres, in World War I. Then as now, victims ...

MURFREESBORO, Tenn. — Possible exposure to chlorine gas is the biggest concern from Wednesday morning’s chemical fire on Interstate 24 in southern Rutherford County, Tennessee’s state epidemiologist ...

Preliminary information released on Wednesday indicated the chemical leaked into the air at Pacific Steel and Recycling Wednesday morning was arsenic chloride. However, once crews were able to get ...

Nineteen people sent to hospital after complaints of nausea and dizziness. Police say someone may have intentionally released chlorine gas at the Rosemont Hyatt Hotel in Illinois Dec. 6, 2014, sending ...

NPR's Robert Siegel talks with chemical weapons expert Amy Smithson about the use of chlorine gas as a weapon in Syria. She says it is a violation of the Chemical Weapons Convention. Members of the ...

The Washington Department of Labor and Industries has fined Pacific Steel and Recycling $6,600 in connection with two workplace safety violations found after a chlorine gas release in August left one ...