Chemical Leak Set Off Fire that Shut Houston Shipping Channel October 31, 2019 HOUSTON — The U.S. Chemical Safety Board said on Wednesday a fuel leak, possibly due to open valves and a...
Exxon Faces Lawsuit Over Air Pollution from Petrochemical Fire August 1, 2019 By Erwin Seba HOUSTON — Exxon Mobil Corp was hit with a lawsuit on Thursday over pollution from a fire at the company’s...
Charges Filed After Fire at Texas Petrochemical Facility May 1, 2019 By Juan A. Lozano HOUSTON — Water pollution charges were filed Monday against a company that owns a Houston-area petrochemical storage facility where a...
Investigators to Begin Hunt for Cause of Texas Petrochemical Disaster April 2, 2019 By Collin Eaton and Erwin Seba U.S. investigators hope this week for the first time to enter the site of a massive fuel fire and chemical...
Chemical Disaster Zone Remains No-Go Zone Two Weeks After Blaze April 1, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Kevin Crowley Two weeks after a chemical storage complex near Houston erupted in flames and menaced tens of thousands of people with...
Firefighters at Houston Chemical Disaster Scrambled for Foam April 1, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Kevin Crowley Firefighters confronted with the worst Gulf Coast industrial disaster in 14 years had to call on outside sources to augment...
Shipping Resumes in Houston Channel Fouled by Chemical Spill March 26, 2019 The U.S. Gulf Coast’s most important industrial waterway partially reopened on Monday after it was polluted with cancer-causing benzene and...
Houston Ship Channel Remains Closed as Plume Leaches Benzene March 25, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Rachel Adams-Heard Some vessels will be allowed to enter a tributary to the Houston Ship Channel this morning but more than 60...
Houston Chemical-Fire Smoke Set to Descend, Closing Schools March 20, 2019 By Joe Carroll and Stephen Stapczynski About the photo: Residents look on at the plume of smoke rising from a fire at the Intercontinental Terminals Co....