An explosion at Smitty’s Supply, Inc.’s oil and lubricant manufacturing plant in Roseland, Louisiana, a small town of less than 1,000 people 50 miles (80 kilometers) northeast of Baton Rouge, occurred ...
NEW ORLEANS (WVUE) - The Smitty’s Supply facility in Roseland has been cited for significant Clean Water Act violations in every quarter since April 2022, EPA records show. The violations include ...
TANGIPAHOA PARISH, La. (WVUE) - The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) found oil, zinc and barium among other substances in the Tangipahoa River after the Smitty’s Supply explosion. A spokesperson ...
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Toxic Explosion At Oil Plant Leaves Black Louisiana Town Reeling With Fear And Uncertainty
In Roseland, LA — a predominantly Black town a little more than 60 miles northeast of Baton Rouge — residents are reeling from the aftermath of a massive explosion. On Aug. 22, 2025, a blast at Smitty ...
ROSELAND, La. — Nearly 40 miles downriver from Smitty's, near Lees Landing, the Tangipahoa River contains oil. The booms deployed by the EPA are trying to contain it, but the whiffs of oil scent make ...
STORY. MORE THAN 72 HOURS AFTER AN EXPLOSION ROCKED CITY SUPPLY PLANT IN ROSELAND, THE CAUSE OF THAT BLAST REMAINS UNDER INVESTIGATION. AND TONIGHT, RESIDENTS ARE RAISING SOME CONCERNS ABOUT THE PATH ...
Federal and state regulators are suing Smitty’s Supply Inc., the Tangipahoa Parish oil and lubricant plant, over an Aug. 22 explosion that sent a plume of black smoke towering over Roseland and forced ...
It was at “one minute after sunrise” on Aug. 27, 1955 when a massive explosion at the Standard Oil Refinery in Whiting shook Northwest Indiana and beyond, followed by devastation that would last ...
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