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Two years after ITC chemical fire in Deer Park, Texas close to making new safety rules for industry Sen. Carol Alvarado, D-Houston, spent years negotiating with industry groups to get new regulations placed on the chemical industry after the ITC fire in 2019. Author: ERIN DOUGLAS (The Texas Tribune) Published: 8:40 AM CDT May 24, 2021 Updated: 8:41 AM CDT May 24, 2021 AUSTIN, Texas — (The Texas Tribune) — In March 2019, a massive chemical fire broke out after a leak at a chemical tank farm in Deer Park spread to almost a dozen other tanks. N...

Smoke rises from a fire burning at the Intercontinental Terminals Company in Deer Park, east of Houston on March 18, 2019. Credit: Jaimie Meldrum/Handout via REUTERS Sign up for The Brief, our daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. In March 2019, a massive chemical fire broke out after a leak at a chemical tank farm in Deer Park spread to almost a dozen other tanks. A plume of smoke soon loomed over the Houston skyline and lingered there for three days. Residents of Deer Park were forced to shelter in place due to air pollution h...

Most of 200-plus comments to Texas environmental agency oppose El Paso Electric proposed Newman power plant project.

Will Texas commission grant permit for concrete batch plant in Mansfield? Not yet Fort Worth Star-Telegram 2 hrs ago Haley Samsel, Fort Worth Star-Telegram May 19—More than an hour of deliberations over the future of a concrete batch plant near Mansfield did not bring the closure Tarrant County residents had hoped for on Wednesday. Instead, three governor-appointed commissioners voted to delay the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality's decision to grant or reject Bosque Solutions' air quality permit application for another three weeks. The application, which seeks to ...

The Coastal Bend will receive $22.5 million to restore water quality and freshwater inflows as part of the RESTORE Act, the law created to respond to the 2010 Deepwater Horizon blowout and spill. The money was recently approved by the RESTORE Council as part of a $302 million grant package. “Water was the most injured natural resource in the Deepwater Horizon spill, and improving freshwater reaching the Gulf through its Texas watersheds will directly benefit every living creature in the Gulf, from plankton to people and everything in between,” said Nueces County Judge Barbara Canales in a...