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 than a mile away from an elementary school. Pollutants pumped into the Brazos River. Those are just a few of the problems [...]
This week a judge made the order official, setting back construction on one of the few coal plants still being planned in Texas.
A judge says the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality did not properly approve the permits for the petroleum coke power plant.
Cushing, Oklahoma is in an unlikely economic predicament: It has too much oil.
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: “I grew up in Dona park, specifically on Vernon Drive, and many of my childhood memories include Mom and Dad, closing our home’s windows to [...]
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