How harmful was that thick, black smoke from the Shell Deer Park fire? Experts weigh in.
erupted in the Shell plant's olefins unit, the key to petrochemical production which breaks down gasses into compounds that form the basis of a wide variety of products, including plastics, paints and agricultural chemicals. The plant makes few final products, instead sending the olefins to other manufacturers.
Nathan Thompson, left, and Harry Heath, take video of the fire at a Shell Chemical plant on Friday, May 5, 2023 in Deer Park.Advocates, however, say they worry about what officials are leaving out of their monitoring and reporting process. Without regular measurements of the levels of soot particles in the breathable air in vicinity of the fire, however, it is unclear how risky the weekend of exposure to that smoke was.
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