The DA's office in Harris County, Texas, has filed five environmental criminal charges against a Deer Park petrochemical plant, where a fire burned for four days in March.
The District Attorney's Office in suburban Houston filed five environmental criminal charges Monday against a petrochemical plant, where a fire burned for four days in March.
Intercontinental Terminals Company's"make-shift dike" broke after the fire, which sent "large quantities of xylene and benzene, highly toxic chemicals, into Tucker Bayou, which flows directly into the Galveston Bay," according to a news release from Harris County District Attorney Kim Ogg.
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