{"id":643523,"date":"2013-02-22T13:30:48","date_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:30:48","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/bgr.com\/?p=340575"},"modified":"2013-02-22T13:30:48","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T18:30:48","slug":"parts-of-googles-mountain-view-headquarters-recently-plagued-by-toxic-vapors","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/643523","title":{"rendered":"Parts of Google\u2019s Mountain View headquarters recently plagued by toxic vapors"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><center><a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2013\/02\/22\/google-mountain-view-headquarters-toxic-340575\/\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"650\" height=\"395\" src=\"http:\/\/boygeniusreport.files.wordpress.com\/2012\/10\/google-sign-3298.jpeg?w=650&amp;h=395&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-feed_normal wp-post-image\" alt=\"Google Mountain View Headquarters\" title=\"Google\" \/><\/a><\/center>Google (<a href=\"http:\/\/finance.yahoo.com\/q?s=goog\">GOOG<\/a>) employees recently got a scare when toxic vapors were found seeping into areas of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/2011\/02\/28\/right-of-passage-honeycomb-commemorated-with-statue-at-google-hq\/\">the company&#8217;s Mountain View headquarters<\/a>, the <a href=\"http:\/\/mv-voice.com\/news\/show_story.php?id=6659\"><em>Mountain View Voice<\/em> reports<\/a>. According to the <em>Voice<\/em>, two of <a href=\"http:\/\/bgr.com\/tag\/google\">Google&#8217;s<\/a> recently constructed buildings &#8220;were found for the first time to have TCE (trichloroethylene) vapors above the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s indoor screening level&#8221; this past December, which prompted Google to act quickly to fix the potential health problem. A Google spokesperson told the <em>Voice<\/em> that the sources of the TCE emissions were &#8220;promptly identified and fixed&#8221; and that &#8220;the health of our Googlers was not put at risk in any way at any time.&#8221; The toxic emissions are apparently the legacy of older Mountain View-based tech companies that allegedly dumped TCE into the soil while working on early versions of silicon chips in the early 1980s.<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/feeds.feedburner.com\/~r\/TheBoyGeniusReport\/~4\/ZHQn9HP-xKo\" height=\"1\" width=\"1\"\/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Google (GOOG) employees recently got a scare when toxic vapors were found seeping into areas of the company&#8217;s Mountain View headquarters, the Mountain View Voice reports. According to the Voice, two of Google&#8217;s recently constructed buildings &#8220;were found for the first time to have TCE (trichloroethylene) vapors above the Environmental Protection Agency&#8217;s indoor screening level&#8221; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7438,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-643523","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643523","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7438"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643523"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643523\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643523"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643523"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643523"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}