Fuming residents are fighting back against a neighboring oil refinery

Grist
By Paola Rosa-AquinoOct 4, 2018, 3:27 pm315 pts
Nestled between two major highways, the Houston ship channel, and a Valero refinery, the neighborhood of Manchester stews in a witches’ brew of toxic chemicals. Houston, known as the Petro Metro, is home to a quarter of the petroleum refining capacity in the United States. An elementary school next to a…

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