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Environment
5:57 pm
Mon June 10, 2013

Exide Says Bankruptcy Won't Affect Its Cleanup In Frisco

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Exide plant in Frisco.
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Exide Technologies says bankruptcy will not alter the cleanup of lead contamination at its closed Frisco plant. 

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Environment
12:55 pm
Fri May 31, 2013

Petrochemical Companies In Texas And Oklahoma Pumping Out Pollutants

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An evening view of the Exxon Mobil oil refinery complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Tonga Nolan is an attorney who lives in the Standard Heights neighborhood and is active with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, which monitors air quality around the Baton Rouge Exxon Mobil facility.
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Larry Alexander lives a few hundred yards from Exxon Mobil. Many of the lots around his house are vacant because Exxon bought out his neighbors over the years.
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Anna Hrybyk (left) talks with Standard Heights neighborhood residents Terrica Hardnett (middle) and Terrell Sylvas about the current state of the EPA's investigation into the Exxon Mobil plant.
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Tonga Nolan shows a folder of pictures from the EPA investigation into the plant, which found rusted pipes and leaks in many areas.
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Exxon Mobil is one of several companies with operations clustered together in the same part of Baton Rouge. These plants hold their products in hundreds of large tanks like this one. Scientists have found that these tanks can be a big source of toxic pollution; when the tanks get old, they can leak fumes, especially through tops that no longer fit well.
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An evening view of the Exxon Mobil oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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This composite image from the top of the Louisiana state capitol building shows the Exxon Mobil complex in Baton Rouge.
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Originally published on Fri May 31, 2013 11:17 am

If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray's house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you see more than a dozen plumes of exhaust in various hues of gray and white.

"That's something you see every day, the same thing if not more," says Almena Poray. "Sometimes it's a darker gray; sometimes it's a black smoke coming out."

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Environment
12:34 am
Thu May 23, 2013

Pilot Bertrand Piccard Says Solar Impulse Is Vehicle For Change

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Bertrand Piccard joined pilot Andre' Borschberg as he completed the Phoenix-Dallas leg of the trip.
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Update:  The Solar Impulse project says all of its scheduled open houses for Saturday at DFW are full.  If they add other open houses the information will appear on their website solarimpulse.com

Solar Impulse touched down at DFW International early this morning at 1:08 a.m.  

The Phoenix-Dallas flight of more than 800 miles is the longest yet for the aircraft which is on a coast-to-coast trip to raise awareness about the capabilities of renewable energy.

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Environment
6:36 pm
Fri April 26, 2013

Southwest Airlines Gives $150,000 To Clean Up Trinity River Corridor

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Clean-up efforts like this one will become more common along the Trinity River Corridor with the help of a $150,000 grant from Southwest Airlines.
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Bertha Bell helped clean up the Trinity River Corridor on Friday.
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Brian Steen is one of 130 volunteers who helped remove weeds along the Trinity River, replacing them with native plants on Friday.
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Southwest Airlines is teaming up with the Trinity Trust Foundation and City of Dallas to create the Trinity River Conservation Corps. With the help of a three-year, $150,00 grant, this new program will help clean up and conserve the Trinity River Corridor.

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