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GALVESTON COUNTY, Texas (KTRK) -- Following two days of testimony, a judge sentenced former Texas City Commissioner Dee Ann Haney to 10 years in prison for a 2017 deadly crash that killed a father and ...

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Although refinery fires are not unheard of, industry experts say the sheer scale of the El Segundo fire last week raises ...

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Texas City officials extended a shelter-in-place due to a fire that broke out at the Marathon Refinery Saturday afternoon. The city posted a brief notification about the fire on social media at about ...

TEXAS CITY, Texas - A fire at a refinery has prompted a shelter-in-place order to be issued by the local government. Around 1 p.m. on Saturday, the City of Texas City issued a Shelter in Place Order ...

ExxonMobil's 637,400 b/d Beaumont refinery on the Texas Gulf Coast reported a process unit upset, the oil major told the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality in a Wednesday filing. In the TCEQ ...

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EL SEGUNDO, CALIFORNIA - OCTOBER 2: Fire burns at a Chevron refinery on October 2, 2025 in El Segundo, California. A big explosion around 10pm (PST) produced a large orange blaze that could be seen ...

(THE CONVERSATION) When fire erupted at the Intercontinental Terminals Co. bulk liquid petroleum storage terminal, large plumes of dark smoke billowed into the clear skies over Deer Park, Texas.