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  <div class="group-image-and-title field-group-div"><div class="field field-name-field-big-image field-type-image field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><img src="https://www.sierraclub.org/sites/www.sierraclub.org/files/styles/flexslider_full/public/sierra/articles/big/SIERRA%20smoke%20plume%20WB.jpg?itok=Gb9hq0ZN" width="769" height="480" title="Photo by IStock | Rui Noronha " /></div></div></div><div class="group-title field-group-div"><div class="field field-name-title field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><h2>Planning for the 100-Year Flood Applies to You Too, Chemical Company</h2></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-subtitle field-type-text field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">Industry needs to start preparing for climate-change-related disasters </div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-field-photo-credits field-type-text-long field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p>Photo by IStock | Rui Noronha </p></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-sharing-code-top field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><div class="addthis_toolbox" addthis:url="https://www.sierraclub.org/sierra/planning-for-100-year-flood-applies-you-too-chemical-company" addthis:title="Planning for the 100-Year Flood Applies to You Too, Chemical Company"><div class="addthis_inline_share_toolbox_9xci"></div></div></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-by-line field-type-ds field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even">By <a href="/sierra/authors/heather-smith">Heather Smith </a> | <span class="pubdate">Aug 31 2017</span></div></div></div><div class="field field-name-body field-type-text-with-summary field-label-hidden"><div class="field-items"><div class="field-item even"><p dir="ltr"><span style="font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: #000000;">The Arkema chemical plant in Crosby, Texas, had two explosions </span><a href="http://www.arkema-americas.com/en/media/news-overview/news/Explosions-and-Smoke-Reported-at-Arkema-Inc.-Crosby-Plant/">early this morning</a><span style="font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: #000000;">, at least one of </span><a href="https://www.nbcnews.com/storyline/hurricane-harvey/harvey-danger-major-chemical-plant-near-houston-likely-explode-facility-n797581">which was captured by an NBC camera crew</a><span style="font-family: 'Droid Serif', Georgia, 'Times New Roman', serif; font-size: 15px; color: #000000;">. Several law enforcement officers posted to the area went to the hospital for dizziness, headaches, and eye and throat irritation, though the Harris County Sheriff told reporters that, in his opinion, the smoke from the explosions was "basically like standing over a barbecue pit or something like that, where you get smoke in your eyes."</span></p><p dir="ltr">But Brock Long, administrator for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, told reporters at a separate news conference that the smoke coming from the Arkema plant after an explosion would be “incredibly dangerous." Organic peroxide, which Arkema says is the source of the incident, is <a href="https://www.newscientist.com/article/dn21790-how-was-airline-bomb-made-to-be-undetectable/">a common component in chemical weapons</a>, precisely because it is extremely good at exploding.  </p><p dir="ltr">Today, <a href="http://www.ibtimes.com/political-capital/texas-republicans-helped-chemical-plant-exploded-lobby-against-safety-rules">the <em>International Business Times</em> reported</a> that Arkema is one of several chemical companies that lobbied heavily to overturn safety rules imposed by the Obama administration that would have required it to substitute safer chemicals, technology, and design practices when possible, and to use third-party auditors to evaluate whether they were actually doing this. Those stricter rules would have taken effect on March 14 of this year but were blocked by EPA administrator Scott Pruitt before they could be implemented.</p><p dir="ltr">The Arkema plant is only one of many oil refineries, chemical factories, and fracking operations that have released a rogues gallery of dangerous substances into the air and water near where Tropical Storm Harvey made landfall. Earlier this week, Houston residents who either chose not to leave or weren’t able to evacuate the city reported that the city’s east end had begun to smell kind of gassy. Well, not just kind of. <a href="https://newrepublic.com/minutes/144487/unbearable-petrochemical-smells-reportedly-drifting-houston">Unbearable petrochemical smell gassy</a>.</p><div class="body_takeaction clearfix"><div class="takeaction_left"><a class="takeaction_body" title="Congress: Harvey relief MUST address the needs of frontline communities &amp; NOT include border wall funding" href="https://sierra.secure.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0086929&amp;id=70131000001uhJzAAI">TAKE ACTION</a></div><div class="takeaction_right"><div><a href="https://sierra.secure.force.com/actions/National?actionId=AR0086929&amp;id=70131000001uhJzAAI">Congress: Harvey relief MUST address the needs of frontline communities &amp; NOT include border wall funding</a></div><div>Demand a just response to Hurricane Harvey.</div></div></div><p>ExxonMobil reported that there were chemical leaks <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/energy-environment/wp/2017/08/29/exxonmobil-refineries-damaged-in-hurricane-harvey-releasing-hazardous-pollutants/?utm_term=.136b8ed9c12e">at its two Houston refineries</a>. Was that the cause? Hard to say. Before the storm made landfall, <a href="https://qz.com/1066097/hurricane-harvey-oil-refineries-are-polluting-latino-and-low-income-neighborhoods/">Houston’s air quality monitors were taken down and put into storage</a>, to prevent them from being torn apart by the storm.</p><div><iframe src="https://fusiontables.google.com/embedviz?q=select+col2+from+1894eZhczn7q-rSt4P26A9XCYV2HxftKfaFlaLKQm+where+col4+in+('Chemical+Facility'%2C+'Coal+Mine'%2C+'Confined+Animal+Feeding+Operation'%2C+'Hazardous+Waste+Facility'%2C+'Oil+and+Gas+Waste+Facility'%2C+'Petroleum+Bulk+Terminal'%2C+'Petroleum+Refinery'%2C+'Power+Plant')&amp;viz=MAP&amp;h=false&amp;lat=29.01007419741483&amp;lng=-96.20097867578124&amp;t=1&amp;z=6&amp;l=col2&amp;y=2&amp;tmplt=2&amp;hml=TWO_COL_LAT_LNG" frameborder="no" scrolling="no" width="687" height="386"></iframe></div><p class="creditText">The map above details some of the major plants, refineries, and facilities that are posing heightened threats to the 25 counties most affected by Harvey. 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Latino communities, which <a href="http://www.motherjones.com/environment/2016/10/latino-communities-polluted-air-ozone-report/">tend to be located closer to refineries and other pollution sources</a> than white neighborhoods (even after adjusting for income level), are likely to have disproportionate health risks from the pollution released by Harvey.</p><p dir="ltr">For decades now, environmental and public-health watchdog groups have been warning about the risk posed by putting so many of the nation’s refineries and factories in the path of so many of the nation’s hurricanes. The Arkema explosion appears to prove the point: Once the plant was flooded and its refrigeration system failed, an explosion was all but inevitable.</p><p>The Gulf Coast is responsible for almost a quarter of petroleum refining in the U.S. and half of the country's chemical manufacturing. 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