On Friday, May 5, a major fire broke out at Shell’s Deer Park chemical plant, east of Houston. The fire raged for at least three days. During that time, there were repeated claims from the company and from…
An unprecedented ‘heat dome’ is hovering over Texas, setting record high temperatures (up to 125ºF), imposing dangerously high heat indexes, and threatening an overstretched power grid. The heat dome is an atmospheric condition resulting from the interaction between high- and…
