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Two years after ITC chemical fire in Deer Park, Texas close to making new safety rules for industry
Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, spent years negotiating with industry groups to get new regulations placed on the chemical industry after the ITC fire in 2019. Author: ERIN DOUGLAS (The Texas Tribune) Published: 8:40 AM CDT May 24, 2021 Updated: 8:41 AM CDT May 24, 2021
AUSTIN, Texas (The Texas Tribune) In March 2019, a massive chemical fire broke out after a leak at a chemical tank farm in Deer Park spread to almost a dozen other tanks.
Note: the video in this story is from an April 2019 broadcast ITC hit with criminal charges for pollution after massive chemical fire
Smoke rises from a fire burning at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, east of Houston on March 18, 2019. Credit: Jaimie Meldrum/Handout via REUTERS
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In March 2019, a massive chemical fire broke out after a leak at a chemical tank farm in Deer Park spread to almost a dozen other tanks.
A plume of smoke soon loomed over the Houston skyline and lingered there for three days. Residents of Deer Park were forced to shelter in place due to air pollution hazards, the Houston Ship Channel closed for three days, and millions of gallons of hazardous waste spilled on the ground and leaked into the water.
Rolling Stone The Corpus Christi Water Wars
A coalition of residents is trying to halt the region’s rapid industrial sprawl. The fight is now centered on the water supply for a massive new Exxon SABIC plastics plant in the drought-prone Texas city
By Rahim Fortune for Rolling Stone
A skyline of smokestacks appears on the horizon before the rest of Corpus Christi does. Approaching Texas’ “Sparkling City by the Sea” on I-37, a palm-tree-lined highway running from San Antonio to the Gulf Coast, it’s tough to tell where the billowing exhaust from oil refineries ends and the rain clouds begin. Massive storage domes, tangles of pipes, and burning flares reach into the sky, and a potpourri of gasoline, sulfur, and unidentified chemical-burning smells fill the air.
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Texas lawmakers want to prevent another power crisis. But the legislation doesn t go far enough to do that, critics say. Wed, 03/31/2021 - 5:47pm
ERIN DOUGLAS & MITCHELL FERMAN, The Texas Tribune
Wednesday, March 31, 2021
Both the Texas Senate and House have written bills that attempt to prevent another massive power failure in extreme temperatures. But parts of their legislative proposals are drawing criticism for not going far enough to prepare electricity infrastructure for increased risks posed by climate change.