Human Rights Watchdogs: Petrochemical Pollution Makes Communities in the US Sick
Organized Crime and Corruption Reporting Project
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People living close to the Houston Ship Channel are breathing toxic substances, linked to a wide range of illnesses, emitted by facilities that flout regulations and release pollutants into the environment.
The international human rights organization found that people in communities near the ship channel, which are predominantly low-income communities of color, have life expectancies up to 20 years shorter than largely white and affluent areas about 15 miles away. Amnesty International pinned the problem on the petrochemical industry as well as state and federal environmental regulators.
LyondellBasell's Channelview complex will hold a live fire training event on Thursday for four hours.
(Page 1) LyondellBasell Industries N.V. (Rotterdam, the Netherlands) has successfully started up what is said to be the world's largest propylene oxide (PO) and