shell (NYSE: SHELL) The Deer Park, Texas, chemical plant that caught fireplace Friday and burned for 4 days has had 1,946 environmental violations over the previous decade, the Environmental Integrity Mission stated Tuesday.
Of them, 95 are violations are nonetheless thought-about “lively,” that means the corporate has but to deal with the difficulty, the report stated, citing information from the Texas Fee on Environmental High quality.
Since January 2012, environmental regulators have fined the Deer Park plant greater than $1.6 million for 37 enforcement actions, together with the discharge of greater than 40,000 kilos of a harmful carcinogen from an olefin plant in an almost 24-hour interval in January 2013.
Whereas the trigger and results of the newest accident are nonetheless unclear, the report stated the Deer Park plant had “numerous critical air and water air pollution violations.”
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