Climate change threatens about a third of the US facilities that store hazardous chemicals

Global warming and its accompanying climate effects endanger almost one-third of chemical facilities in the United States that contain dangerous compounds, according to the US Congress' Government Accountability Office (GAO).

The congressional committee discovered that 31% of the EPA's 10,420 so-called "Risk Management Plan" (RMP) facilities – which store or utilise hazardous chemicals – are located in p....