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September 18, 2017

Ex-Head of U.S. Operations for Shell to Lead Houston's Harvey Recover
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In more climate-related news, Houston Mayor Sylvester Turner has tapped
the former head of U.S. operations for oil giant Shell to lead Houston's
post-Hurricane Harvey recovery effort. Marvin Odum was the chair of
Shell for eight years. He retired in 2016. Hurricane Harvey killed at
least 82 people, flooded thousands of homes and destroyed billions of
dollars of property. It also caused widespread environmental
contamination, triggering a half-million-gallon gasoline spill and the
release of up to 5 million pounds of pollutants into the air.


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