TravelPod.com Recent Updates (Free subscription) | 06/30/2008
Bringing Naciente Home from Oriental NC to Kemah TX, my adventure on the Intracoastal Waterway
The Huffington Post (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
PORT ARTHUR, Tex. -- This downtrodden chemical town on the Gulf of Mexico has no shortage of nicknames: Cancer Alley, the Armpit of Texas, Ring of Fire. Built on a gush of oil wealth, Port Arthur eventually wooed chemical and waste plants as well. But since the 1970s, this city, which is majority African-American, has complained that it has become a dumping ground for the nation's toxic waste.
International Herald Tribune (Free subscription) | 06/19/2008
If Veolia Environmental Services of France has its way, the Port Arthur, Texas, area will be the final destination for 40 million pounds of toxins from Mexico.
VitaBeat (Free subscription) | 06/13/2008
Residents of Port Arthur in Texas are up in arms over plans by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to allow the operators of the Port Arthur incinerator to bring in 20,000 tons of toxic waste from Mexico. The unwanted items are mostly PCBs. A 30-year old law which prohibited the manufacture of polychlorinated biphenyls was cited by residents opposed to the petition of Veolia Environment Services...
Red Orbit (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In a major sustainability milestone for the industry, InEnTec Chemical LLC yesterday announced it successfully completed demonstration of its mobile Plasma Enhanced Melter(TM) (PEM(TM)) system for four of the world's largest chemical companies to produce ultra clean, hydrogen rich synthesis gas (referred to as "syngas") from chemical residuals that would normally...
The Earth Times Online Newspaper (Free subscription) | 06/07/2008
PORT ARTHUR, Texas, June 6 /PRNewswire/ -- In a major sustainability milestone for the industry, InEnTec Chemical LLC yesterday announced it successfully completed demonstration of its mobile Plasma Enhanced Melter(TM) (PEM(TM)) system for four of the world's...
Treehugger (Free subscription) | 06/06/2008
Who would want to do that? Well a company in Port Arthur, Texas, is currently seeking an exemption from federal law to do just that. If you're not familiar with PCBs (polychlorinated biphenyls), they are a compound once manufactured in the U.S. to insulate electricity transformers, among many other uses. In 1976, after realizing how nasty these things are, Congress passed the Toxic Substances Control...
Green Car Congress (Free subscription) | 06/03/2008
Air Products has signed an agreement for long-term hydrogen supply with Total Petrochemicals USA, Inc. to support Total’s new deep conversion expansion project at its Port Arthur, Texas refinery. Total’s Port Arthur refinery will use the hydrogen to process alternative...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 05/29/2008
I take special pride in mentioning that Motiva - our joint venture with Shell here in the U.S. - broke ground in December 2007 on a $7 billion project to expand its refinery in Port Arthur, Texas. Upon completion in 2010, this investment will provide 325,000 barrels per day of additional gasoline and other petroleum products to U.S. domestic markets. The expansion will increase the refinery's crude...
The Smoking Section (Free subscription) | 05/21/2008
Despite II Trill being Bun B’s second solo album, both have been Pimp C's just as much as his own. 2005’s Trill was a vehicle to keep an incarcerated Pimp C on the mouths and minds of everyone within earshot as Bun carried the banner of U.G.K. and Port Arthur, Texas on his shoulders. Fast [...]
News Scotsman (Free subscription) | 05/20/2008
Robert Rauschenberg Born: 22 October, 1925, in Port Arthur, Texas. Died: 12 May, 2008, in Florida, aged 82.
Jalopnik (Free subscription) | 05/14/2008
Contemporary American artist Robert Rauschenberg joined Pimp C and Janis Joplin on the list of artists from Port Arthur, Texas that we're sad to not have with us anymore. Though better known for any number of artistic accolades and pieces, we'll always remember Rauschenberg as the guy who designed the cover to Speaking in Tongues and, more importantly, the sixth BMW art car, a BMW 635 CSi. A departure...
Royal Dutch Shell plc .com (Free subscription) | 04/07/2008
The expansion will require driving 50,000 concrete piles into the swampy soil. THE WALL STREET JOURNAL: A $7 Billion Expansion Updates Texas Refinery Aramco, Shell to Double Size Of Historic Plant, Modify It To Handle ‘Nastiest Crudes’ By NEIL KING JR. April 7, 2008; Page B1 PORT ARTHUR, Texas — Oil companies are traveling farther and drilling deeper to find that next barrel [...]
RightFielders (Free subscription) | 03/30/2008
Meet Amy Acuff, the very sexy high jumper who is working her way towards her fourth Olympic games this summer. See photos, video and read a biography of Amy below. Amy Acuff As a biography, Amy was born on July 14, 1975 in Port Arthur, Texas. She is 32 years old. Amy was first [...]
Market Watch (Free subscription) | 03/10/2008
SAN FRANCISCO (MarketWatch) -- Fluor Corp. said Monday it won a contract from Total SA to work on the oil company's Port Arthur, Texas refinery. Fluor said it will book the full contract value of $1.9 billion in the first quarter of 2008. Fluor said the contract calls for it to build a coker, a desulfurization unit, a vacuum distillation unit and other related infrastructure at the refinery, which...
