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  2. Brio Superfund site - Wikipedia

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    As of December 8, 2019, the area is restricted by a surrounding fence with "no trespassing" signs. Some remains of the baseball field can be found in the surrounding wooded areas. As of December 8, 2019, the site is currently in an operations and maintenance phase and monitored by the EPA. In 2010, there was a contaminant leak discovered at the ...

  3. Creosote contamination in Houston's Fifth Ward - Wikipedia

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    To increase the volume of creosote available for wood treatment, Southern Pacific used creosote extenders in the site's treatment process. [18] Concerns arose when it was revealed [17] that some of these extenders were sourced from what are now Houston-area Superfund sites––including Brio Refining, Dixie Oil Processors, and Motco––bringing the extender's safety and toxicity into ...

  4. List of companies in Houston - Wikipedia

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    This is a list of major companies or subsidiaries headquartered in Houston, Texas and Greater Houston. ... Westlake Chemical: 457: NOV Inc. 460: Huntsman Corporation ...

  5. Houston Energy Corridor - Wikipedia

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    The Energy Corridor is a business district in Houston, Texas, located on the west side of the metropolitan area between Beltway 8 and the Grand Parkway.The district straddles a 7-mile (11 km) stretch of Interstate 10 (the Katy Freeway) from Kirkwood Road westward to Barker Cypress Road and extends south along Eldridge Parkway to Briar Forest Drive.

  6. List of neighborhoods in Houston - Wikipedia

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    The city of Houston, Texas, contains many neighborhoods, ranging from planned communities to historic wards. There is no uniform standard for what constitutes an individual neighborhood within the city; however, the city of Houston does recognize a list of 88 super neighborhoods which encompass broadly recognized regions. According to the city ...

  7. Clear Lake (region) - Wikipedia

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    Apart from referring to the lake itself or the region defined by the chamber of commerce, the name can refer to the Clear Lake City residential development, the Clear Lake area of Houston (a Houston "superneighborhood" including Clear Lake City, Johnson Space Center, and surrounding areas), the Clear Lake area of Pasadena, and other geographies ...

  8. List of largest chemical producers - Wikipedia

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    The American Chemistry Council estimated that global chemical sales in 2014 rose by 3.7% to US$5,389,000,000,000. [3] In 2018, Forty-eight of the companies on the list disclosed chemical profits, which totaled US$110,100,000,000, an increase of 1.3% from 2017. The average profit margin for chemical operations for these companies was 9.6%. [1]

  9. TPC Group - Wikipedia

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    December 11th, 2019, aerial view of TPC plant and surrounding area. A processing unit at TPC's Port Neches butadiene manufacturing plant exploded in a series of explosions on Wednesday, November 27, 2019, the eve of Thanksgiving Day, and a fire raged at the facility. 60,000 residents were evacuated [18] [19] [5] within four miles of the facility, including parts of Port Neches, Nederland ...