A Child of Refinery Row Looks Back
What’s it like growing up surrounded by refineries in Corpus Christi? A commenter on one of our stories about Refinery Row, Iris Gonzales Hinojosa, writes about her childhood among the refinery stacks:...
View ArticleWhat the Glut? Why Cushing is Bursting and Texas is Waiting for Oil
Cushing, Oklahoma is in an unlikely economic predicament: It has too much oil.
View ArticleLas Brisas Power Plant Will Likely Lose Air Permit
A judge says the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality did not properly approve the permits for the petroleum coke power plant.
View ArticleWhy the Las Brisas Coal Plant Air Permit Was Reversed
This week a judge made the order official, setting back construction on one of the few coal plants still being planned in Texas.
View ArticleThe Texas Plant That Polluted for Years, and a Whistleblower That Helped...
Cooked books, pollution controls cobbled together with duct tape, and holes burned in the ceiling by ammonia and chloride. A furnace design from the 1800s. Arsenic and nickel sent into the air, less...
View ArticleShell Agrees to Pay Over $115 Million to Settle Clean Air Act Violations in...
Federal agencies announced Wednesday that Shell Oil has agreed to pay $115 million to install pollution controls at their refinery and chemical plant in Deer Park, Texas to resolve alleged violations...
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