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Is Harvey Also a Threat to the Air We Breathe?

Wray, Dianna
http://www.houstonpress.com/news/houston-ship-channel-communities-deal-with-weird-smell-during-harvey-9741373

Publisher:  Houston Press
Date Written:  28/08/2017
Year Published:  2017  
Resource Type:  Article

Following Houston's catastrophic flooding, petrochemical plants have abruptly started shutting down operations, including ExxonMobil, Petrobras, Shell and Chevron Phillips. While these shutdowns might be necessary, they can also produce significant amounts of air pollution.

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Excerpt: But just before midnight on Saturday night, Olmos, who has lived a few blocks from the massive Valero Refinery for years, noticed a strange odor in the house, as if someone had turned on a gas burner on the stove in the kitchen and blown out the pilot light. Olmos and her family thought it was coming from inside the house until she stepped outside where the smell was even stronger.

"We figured it would go away on its own, but this morning it was still here, and it feels like whenever it rains the odor gets stronger, " she says. "Our neighbors were all talking about it and then I saw people from different neighborhoods talking about it on social media. That's when I realized it's not just us this time. It's all over East Houston."
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