The Houston Ship Canal is domicile to the USA's largest petrochemical complex. Along the canal at that spot are x major refineries in addition to dozens of chemic manufacturing plants. The Gulf Restoration Network has mapped these in addition to other crude facilities inward the Gulf Coast that are inward danger from flooding.
ExxonMobil admitted today that 2 of its refineries accept been damaged past times Hurricane Harvey in addition to accept released hazardous pollutants. One of these refineries, the Baytown crude refinery, is the minute largest inward the USA. The Beaumont refinery is the other ExxonMobil facility to study releasing hazardous pollutants. The Washington Post reports that "most of the other facilities belonging to major companies equally good filed notices amongst the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality".
The Oil Contamination Risk map uses States of America Environmental Protection Agency information to demo crude facilities located at depression elevations. If y'all zoom inward on Houston y'all tin persuasion the locations of the facilities which are inward danger from the acquaint flooding. You tin click on whatsoever facility on the map to reveal its name.
ProPublica & the Texas Tribune has explored only about of the inadequate defenses inward house to protect these facilities. In Hell in addition to High Water they explicate the history behind the electrical flow defenses, only about of the recent studies on improving their protection, in addition to the reasons why Texan politicians volition belike never back upwardly the edifice of proper overflowing prevention measures inward the state.
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