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Environmental groups on Thursday filed a legal challenge to reverse a key permit for a proposed $2.5 billion biofuel refinery along the Columbia River over concerns it could pollute the water and harm ...

An Ozone Action Day has been issued for the Houston, Galveston, and Brazoria areas due to possible high levels of air pollution.

LydonellBasell told the Texas Workforce Commission that the layoffs were due to the Houston refinery "permanently ceasing its entire oil refining processes." LyondellBasell said Thursday it had no ...

Oil refineries have long been the lifeblood of many working-class neighborhoods in East Texas, often offering ... The closure of a major Houston refinery is a bellwether for pressure on a segment ...

US Labor Board Judge Rules Exxon's Texas Refinery Union Lockout Was Legal HOUSTON (Reuters) - A U.S. National Labor Relations Board administrative law judge has ruled Exxon Mobil's 10-month-long ...

DEER PARK, Texas (AP) — Two employees killed when hydrogen sulfide leaked at a Houston-area oil refinery were employees of a subcontractor performing maintenance work, the director of Pemex, Mexico’s ...

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A Houston company will construct the largest new refinery in the last 50 years in Brownsville, Texas. Element Fuel Holdings LLC is spending between $3 and $4 billion on the project, which will ...

Netherlands-based petrochemicals manufacturer LyondellBasell Industries plans to convert the soon-to-be-closed oil refinery of its Houston Refining LP unit into a hydrogen facility, it said Nov. 2.