Treating styrene in the atmosphere I was actually inspired to ask this question in certain circumstances. In the outskirts of my city, there happened to be a styrene gas leak early morning today which killed thirteen and hospitalized many people.

Since styrene is an aromatic compound, it is suspected to be carcinogenic in nature but I think it is inert towards other atmospheric gases as well as many compounds in non-laboratory conditions. The temperature here is 31 °C, so it can stay for a large time unaffected at the same area without much spreading. I think so because it has a high molecular weight(104 g/mol).

My question is: "is there a way to treat this styrene in the atmosphere without causing much more toxicity in that area?" (For information regarding its toxicity, refer to this safety data sheet). Of course, I understand that styrene is broken down within 1-2 days in the atmosphere naturally but is there any other way to do it quicker?
Spraying another compound to neutralize styrene (which is difficult) or whatever it was is probably not helpful, as it takes too long to spread and other potentially harmful materials are introduced, as one would need to apply the substance in excess. 

Having readily installed outlets for water curtains at the plant might be helpful. The quickest emergency measure would have been if every household in the area was equipped with sufficient amounts of respirators and suitable absorbers ("filters") and training the people how to use them correctly (and teaching them that the absorbers have a limited capacity) might give enough time to escape. This would be a good and rather cheap provision for the future. Otherwise ventilation to dilute the materials is the only thing one can do, I'm afraid.