Mile 120.0 - RBD - Monsanto, OxyChem, and Air Products
120 RBD - Monsanto, OxyChem, and Air Products
Roundup is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the US. Easy to find, to use, and very effective, it has become the “evil of choice” for weed control. This is nowhere more true than in the jungly conditions of the Southern United States. Monsanto produces the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba at its Luling plant, including glyphosate based Roundup. Dicamba is a selective herbicide in the chlorophenoxy family of chemicals. Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses known to compete with commercial crops. It was discovered to be a herbicide by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970. Monsanto brought it to market in the 1970s under the trade name Roundup. In 1992 Occidental Chemical purchased Monsanto’s isocyanurate plant. The OxyChem Luling Monsanto Production Plant produces chlorinated isocyanurate and cyanic acid. It is operated by Monsanto for OxyChem. Air Products has a 100,000,000 cubic feet per day hydrogen plant which supplies hydrogen to Monsanto. Momentive Specialty Chemicals, owned by Hexion, is building a formaldehyde plant in Monsanto’s facility to supply Monsanto with formaldehyde.
Toxic Releases (TRI) for 2013 in pounds: Monsanto Luling: Air: 43,189; Water: 109,940. OxyChem Luling Monsanto Production Plant: Air: 94,168. Air Products Luling: Air: 3,392.
Roundup
Roundup is one of the most commonly used herbicides in the US. Easy to find, to use, and very effective, it has become the “evil of choice” for weed control. This is nowhere more true than in the jungly conditions of the Southern United States. Monsanto produces the herbicides glyphosate and dicamba at its Luling plant, including glyphosate based Roundup. Dicamba is a selective herbicide in the chlorophenoxy family of chemicals. Glyphosate is a broad-spectrum systemic herbicide used to kill weeds, especially annual broadleaf weeds and grasses known to compete with commercial crops. It was discovered to be a herbicide by Monsanto chemist John E. Franz in 1970. Monsanto brought it to market in the 1970s under the trade name Roundup.