A Pass to Poison: Texas regulators largely fail to crack down on top air polluters
DEER PARK — For more than two decades, Dennis Gallagher was a proud Shell employee. During his 22 years working at the energy juggernaut’s sprawling, 80-year-old complex in this Refinery Row suburb of Houston, he learned to oversee different parts of the massive chemical plant and refinery. The facilities manufacture not only oil but a variety of hazardous chemicals that — if mishandled — could easily explode and level the 2,300-acre compound, located less than a mile from residential neighborhoods. Until two years ago, the Michigan native’s only truly bad day at work was in 1997, when a gas compressor exploded and he […]
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