Hazards Inwards Houston

The Houston Ship Canal is domicile to the USA's largest petrochemical complex. Along the canal in that place are 10 major refineries together with dozens of chemic manufacturing plants. The Gulf Restoration Network has mapped these together with other stone oil facilities inwards the Gulf Coast that are inwards danger from flooding.

ExxonMobil admitted today that 2 of its refineries convey been damaged yesteryear Hurricane Harvey together with convey released hazardous pollutants. One of these refineries, the Baytown stone oil refinery, is the 2nd largest inwards 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 too filed notices amongst the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality".

The Oil Contamination Risk map uses U.S. Environmental Protection Agency information to present stone oil facilities located at depression elevations. If y'all zoom inwards on Houston y'all tin persuasion the locations of the facilities which are inwards danger from the acquaint flooding. You tin click on whatever facility on the map to respect its name.

ProPublica & the Texas Tribune has explored around of the inadequate defenses inwards house to protect these facilities. In Hell together with High Water they explicate the history behind the electrical flow defenses, around of the recent studies on improving their protection, together with the reasons why Texan politicians volition in all probability never back upward the edifice of proper overflowing prevention measures inwards the state.