A driver crashed into several vehicles parked at a Pasadena household around 3:30 a.m. April 26. The impact caused a chain-reaction that pushed one of the parked cars through the garage door and into the house where it injured a 4-year-old sleeping in an adjacent room. The driver attempted to flee the scene. Awakened by [...]
A crane struck and killed a truck driver at the Port of Houston Barbours Cut container terminal facility. The truck driver was struck Thursday afternoon by a rubber-tired gantry crane. Gantry cranes are used in a range of marine applications, from ship-to-shore container transfer or moving containers throughout a port facility. The crane in this case [...]
A payment hold stalled millions of dollars' worth of projects in Pasadena earlier this year when the city's economic development corporation's board member terms expired. New leadership aims to get the organization back on track. The EDC, known as Pasadena Second Century, has been a contentious issue for Pasadena City Council during an overall rocky year [...]
DHL Supply Chain's leased campus is set to expand with the addition of a third distribution building. Denver-based DCT Industrial Trust will be adding a 220,000-square-foot building to the DHL leased campus, bringing the facilities to a total 535,000 square feet. The company acquired over 13 acres adjacent to the existing campus and will break ground [...]
The Keystone XL Pipeline could bring more than 800,000 barrels of Canadian oil to the area's coastal refineries. If and when the the pipeline is completed, those barrels coming from the northern oil sands would run into competition for refinery access with oil from Latin American countries. Mexico relies on coastal U.S. refineries since its [...]
A new polyisobutylene unit is under construction at the Lubrizol Deer Park facility. Lubrizol Corp. is in the midst of a 10-year phased investment plan which includes infrastructure additions such as the new unit. Lubrizol invested $125 million to build the plant in 2012 as part of an expansion in PVC. The new unit is [...]
All contractors working on projects for the city's economic development corporation face a payment hold until the city approves a new board for the corporation. This includes work for almost a dozen projects valued at approximately $15.7 million. Board member terms recently expired, leaving the EDC unable to function. Mayor Johnny Isbell deferred presenting nominations to city [...]
Pasadena Refining System System Inc. finds itself repeatedly in the spotlight during the past two weeks. Shortly after Environment Texas and the Sierra Club’s Lone Star chapter filed a lawsuit against the plant alleging pollution violations under the Clean Air Act, Harris County Attorney Vince Ryan filed an enforcement action in a state district court. The enforcement [...]
A Pasadena refinery faces a lawsuit alleging pollution violations under the Clean Air Act. Environment Texas and the Sierra Club's Lone Star chapter filed the suit, claiming repeated and ongoing violations of pollution limits by the refinery operated by Pasadena Refining System Inc (PRSI). PRSI is a subsidiary of Brazil's national oil company, Petrobras. In a [...]
In 2014, a methyl mercaptan gas release killed three operators and a shift supervisor at the DuPont facility in La Porte. The company wound up on OSHA's Severe Violator Enforcement Program as a result. Now, a state legislator has introduced a bill that would establish a system of alerts that could assist the public during such [...]