Shell Deer Park News Today

Investigations have been underway in Deer Park this week after reports of odors, dirty water, and dead fish in Patrick Bayou.

Shell Deer Park shared a message on Tuesday that there will be flaring at the chemical plant.

The Texas attorney general's office filed a lawsuit against Shell, seeking over $1 million and alleging a fire at a facility near Houston damaged the environment.

Residents, lawyers, and environmental groups point to aging facilities and reluctant state regulators as reasons for the continued string of industrial fires.

Texans are alarmed by a recent string of fires and toxic releases in a region where oil refining and chemical production is highly concentrated.

Crews battled a fire at a building in the 1200 block of Miller Cut Off Road in La Porte. The address appears to come back to INEOS Oligomers.

Shell officials finally made themselves available three days after the company's Deer Park facility erupted in fire, injuring 15 people.

The Shell Deer Park fire is not the first plant fire the Houston area has seen in recent years. Here are a few other plant fires that have occurred in the area since 2019.

The Shell Deer Park wastewater storage has reached capacity and the runoff is being released into the Houston Ship Channel with booms in place to stop contamination.

Here's a compilation of a few news stories from the week of May 1 to 7, including two mass shootings in Texas, a chemical plant fire, and seven killed near a migrant center in Brownsville after a crash.