Four employees of DuPont in Texas died from poor design of gas pipeline.

February 5, 2015

Federal regulators (click here) say design flaws with a network of pipes and valves at a Houston-area DuPont chemical plant contributed to the leak of a poisonous gas that killed four workers in November.

U.S. Chemical Safety Board investigator Dan Tillema said in a news briefing Thursday that the events leading to the deaths of the workers Nov. 15 in La Porte began days before....

Shipping Channel continues to be polluted by chemical spill that occurred last year.

Paraxylene (click here) is a basic raw material used in the manufacturing of many plastics, containers and packaging, films and clothing fabrics.

Darcy Schroeder, a spokeswoman for Wichita, Kansas-based Koch, says in an email Sunday the company was recommending that traffic no longer be restricted on the ship channel as the spill was contained to a small area around one of the docks near the refinery....

Is there anything still alive in the Texas intracoastal waterway? My guess is no and even if there were fish I am sure none of that makes the retail market for man or beast.

This photograph from the International Space Station shows 18 kilometers (11.2 mile) of the Intracoastal Waterway, the 4,800 kilometer-long (3,000 mile) barge channel that lies on the protected inshore of coastal islands of the southern and eastern United States, including coastal Texas. 

Cleanup continues (click here) at the Corpus Christi Ship Channel after a chemical leaked from a refinery.

Vacuum trucks with Flint Hills Resources, a subsidiary of Koch Companies, were working on Sunday to clean the water after an undetermined amount of paraxylene leaked a day earlier from the company's West Refinery....