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Soil in the Ruston/North Tacoma study area is contaminated by arsenic and lead. Soil, surface water and groundwater across most of the Tacoma Tar Pits site is contaminated by metals, PAHs, PCBs, and VOCs including benzene, from a former coal gasification plant and recycling operations. Ship building, oil refining, chemical manufacture and ...
USOR (U.S. Oil & Refining Co.) began in 1952 as Pacific Oil & Refining Co., [1] a privately held corporation. Its first president was Dr. Ernest Lyder. The company was formed to build an oil refinery in the Pacific Northwest. In 1954, the refinery's present site in Tacoma was purchased, and in 1955 the corporation was renamed U.S. Oil ...
Washington state has the fifth highest oil refining capacity of any state. As of 2018, there are 5 refineries in Washington state with a joint capacity of 637,700 b/d. [ 1 ] They are, in order of greatest b/d capacity, Cherry Point refinery , Puget Sound refinery , Marathon Anacortes refinery , Ferndale refinery and U.S. Oil refinery .
The FBI has recently made public several photos from the investigation inside the Pentagon after the attacks of September 11, 2001. The images, posted to the FBI's records vault, give a new look ...
The 9/11 attacks occurred in the morning hours of Sept. 11, 2001. Departing from Boston's Logan International Airport, American Airlines Flight 11 was flown into the World Trade Center's North ...
When first operational, Cherry Point had a capacity of about 100,000 barrels (16,000 m 3); it currently processes over 225,000 barrels (35,800 m 3) of petroleum (crude oil) per day, with 90% becoming gasoline, diesel or jet fuel. [7] It covers about 3,300 acres (5.2 sq mi; 13 km 2). [8] Most of Cherry Point's crude oil is from the Alaska North ...
The Seattle Underground. The facade seen here was at street level in the mid-1800s. The Seattle Underground is a network of underground passageways and basements in the Pioneer Square neighborhood of Seattle, Washington, United States. They were located at ground level when the city was built in the mid-19th century but fell into disuse after ...
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