The Houston Ship Canal is dwelling identify to the USA's largest petrochemical complex. Along the canal at that topographic point are 10 major refineries in addition to dozens of chemic manufacturing plants. The Gulf Restoration Network has mapped these in addition to other petroleum facilities inward the Gulf Coast that are inward danger from flooding.
ExxonMobil admitted today that 2 of its refineries accept been damaged yesteryear Hurricane Harvey in addition to accept released hazardous pollutants. One of these refineries, the Baytown petroleum refinery, is the mo largest inward the USA. The Beaumont refinery is the other ExxonMobil facility to written report releasing hazardous pollutants. The Washington Post reports that "most of the other facilities belonging to major companies likewise filed notices alongside the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality".
The Oil Contamination Risk map uses U.S. of America Environmental Protection Agency information to demo petroleum facilities located at depression elevations. If y'all zoom inward on Houston y'all tin sentiment the locations of the facilities which are inward danger from the introduce flooding. You tin click on whatever facility on the map to detect its name.
ProPublica & the Texas Tribune has explored about of the inadequate defenses inward identify to protect these facilities. In Hell in addition to High Water they explicate the history behind the electrical flow defenses, about of the recent studies on improving their protection, in addition to the reasons why Texan politicians volition in all probability never back upward the edifice of proper inundation prevention measures inward the state.
