Harvey stirs up a toxic, industrial soup

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By Amelia UrrySep 1, 2017, 5:31 pm129 pts
Texas is home to 28 oil refineries, more than any other state, along with half of U.S. chemical manufacturing. Most of these facilities are clustered along the Gulf Coast, where Hurricane Harvey just dumped a year’s worth of rain in a few days. For the neighborhoods bordering Houston’s industrial…

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