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March 22, 2019

Texas: Deer Park Residents Shelter in Place After Chemical Fire
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Back in the United States, residents of the city of Deer Park, outside
Houston, Texas, were ordered to shelter in place Thursday due to
dangerous levels of toxic benzene kicked up by a massive fire at a
petrochemical plant. The fire began on Sunday and has since continued to
spew acrid smoke across the region. A recently filed federal lawsuit
charges the company behind the explosion-Intercontinental Terminals
Company-illegally dumped more than a million gallons of hazardous waste
into floodwaters during Hurricane Harvey in 2017 in an effort to save
money.


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