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The article reports that the International Society of Explosives Engineers' Annual Conference on Explosives & Blasting Technique was held at the Grand Hyatt San Antonio for four days and had several attendees and exhibitors.

(Bloomberg) -- The explosion that left a Texas chemical plant burning for a second day and triggered the evacuation of surrounding neighborhoods is now exposing the area to toxic air pollution. The Port Neches facility produces more than 16% of north America's butadiene, used to make synthetic rubber for tires and automobile hoses, and 12% of gasoline additive methyl tert-butyl ether, or MTBE. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- Fires were still burning at a Texas chemical plant after multiple explosions injured three workers and forced residents of Port Neches to evacuate. Lyondell, which also makes butadiene, may benefit if a significant outage at the TPC plant leads to an increase in prices, the analysts said. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- An explosion at a Texas chemical plant injured three people early Wednesday and led to the shutdown of a waterway connecting oil refineries to the Gulf Coast. Ships have been excluded from a two-mile safety zone along the Sabine-Neches waterway on either side of the TPC facility, said Keith Pierre, the executive officer of the U.S. Coast Guard for the marine safety unit in Port Arthur. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A deep blast of Arctic cold will threaten daily temperature records from New York to Texas starting late Tuesday and running to Thursday. Since early morning, the temperature in Manhattan's Central Park fell almost 20 degrees, and at mid-day was hovering at around 38. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) -- A deep blast of Arctic cold will threaten daily temperature records from New York to Texas starting late Tuesday before the chill starts to slide away on Thursday. "We're looking at the potential for records from Texas to New York, including New England and the Great Lakes", Burke said by telephone. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports investigation of explosion by U.S. National Transportation Safety Board on the natural gas pipeline system near Danville, Kentucky which killed a woman and injured five other people while setting fire to several houses.

To contact the reporter on this story:Megan Durisin in Chicago at mdurisin1@bloomberg.netTo contact the editors responsible for this story:Simon Casey at scasey4@bloomberg.netPatrick McKiernan, Robin Saponar Attribution Megan Durisin: by reporter Robin Saponar: editor Simon Casey: editor responsible. [Extracted from the article]

(Bloomberg) - A deep blast of Arctic cold will threaten daily temperature records from New York to Texas starting late Tuesday and running to Thursday. New York City's temperature will drop from 57 degrees (14 Celsius) down to 20 over the course of Tuesday as a cold front roars through, bringing rain and possibly a few wet snow flakes as the precipitation dies down, the National Weather Service said. [Extracted from the article]

The article reports that BP has agreed to settle with four plaintiffs who had brought civil suits against the company for injuries related to the March 2005 explosion at its Texas City, Texas plant. The settlements cut short a trial that was in its 11th day. BP had already settled cases involving deaths caused by the blast, the last of which was reached late last 2006.

Reports on the interim report issued by chemical company BP that cites lack of supervision and the failure of some employees to follow procedure for the March 2005 blasting accident which killed workers at its chemical plant in Texas City, Texas. Details of the accident; Criticisms expressed by the United Steelworkers against the interim report; Findings of the BP investigation cited in the report.