{"677686":{"#nid":"677686","#data":{"type":"external_news","title":"A Cloud of Noxious Chemicals and Lawsuits Is Descending Outside Atlanta","body":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo weeks ago, a facility owned by BioLab in Conyers, Georgia, outside of Atlanta blew up, sending a huge and rancid cloud miles around. It seems the water used to extinguish the fire reacted with pool chemicals in the plant, which made the cloud more noxious. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says a system known as the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network detected a 1,400-times increase in the amount of chlorine-containing particles in the air, and a 170-times increase in the amount of bromine-containing particles in the air over Decatur.\u003C\/p\u003E","summary":"","format":"limited_html"}],"field_subtitle":"","field_summary":[{"value":"\u003Cp\u003ETwo weeks ago, a facility owned by BioLab in Conyers, Georgia, outside of Atlanta blew up, sending a huge and rancid cloud miles around. It seems the water used to extinguish the fire reacted with pool chemicals in the plant, which made the cloud more noxious. \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/people\/ng-dr-nga-lee-sally\u0022\u003ESally Ng\u003C\/a\u003E, a professor in the \u003Ca href=\u0022https:\/\/eas.gatech.edu\/\u0022\u003ESchool of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences\u003C\/a\u003E, says a system known as the Atmospheric Science and Chemistry Measurement Network detected a 1,400-times increase in the amount of chlorine-containing particles in the air, and a 170-times increase in the amount of bromine-containing particles in the air over Decatur.\u003C\/p\u003E","format":"limited_html"}],"field_summary_sentence":"","uid":"36609","created_gmt":"2024-10-17 13:42:22","changed_gmt":"2024-10-17 13:42:22","author":"acook304","boilerplate_text":"","field_publication":"","publication":"Esquire","field_article_url":"","publication_url":"https:\/\/www.esquire.com\/news-politics\/politics\/a62600626\/biolab-fire-chemicals-leak-georgia\/","dateline":{"date":"2024-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","iso_date":"2024-10-15T00:00:00-04:00","tz":"America\/New_York"},"extras":[],"groups":[{"id":"1278","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"364801","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences (EAS)"}],"categories":[{"id":"154","name":"Environment"},{"id":"135","name":"Research"},{"id":"134","name":"Student and Faculty"}],"keywords":[{"id":"4896","name":"College of Sciences"},{"id":"166926","name":"School of Earth and Atmospheric Sciences"},{"id":"193982","name":"BioLab"}],"core_research_areas":[],"news_room_topics":[],"event_categories":[],"invited_audience":[],"affiliations":[],"classification":[],"areas_of_expertise":[],"news_and_recent_appearances":[],"phone":[],"contact":[],"email":[],"slides":[],"orientation":[],"userdata":""}}}