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Correction: This story has been updated to reflect the fact that from 2005 to 2013, TCEQ issued 36 violations and $1,358,745 in penalties against ExxonMobil’s Baytown refinery.
The ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas on March 2, 2023. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by the oil giant, ensuring it has to pay a pollution penalty.
A Baytown power plant with a track record of federal air quality violations could get up to $332 million from the U.S. Department of Energy as part of a national decarbonization initiative.
The ExxonMobil Baytown refinery in Baytown, Texas on March 2, 2023. The U.S. Supreme Court on Monday denied an appeal by the oil giant, ensuring it has to pay a pollution penalty.
A 2021 ruling found the oil giant committed more than 16,000 violations of the Clean Air Act at its Baytown refinery and plant. Smoke rises from a fire at Exxon Mobil's refinery and chemical plant ...
On Jan. 19, a day before President Bush's inauguration, the EPA alleged that a major unit at the Baytown refinery was upgraded in 1988 and 1989 without required permits and pollution controls.
HOUSTON, Jan 10 (Reuters) - Exxon Mobil's 562,500 barrel-per-day Baytown, Texas, refinery, the largest in the U.S., was among several Gulf Coast refineries that faced unit upsets and other issues ...
NEW YORK (MarketWatch) -- A pump failure at Exxon Mobil Corp.'s (XOM) giant Baytown, Texas, refinery on January 11 resulted in about an hour of emissions from a processing unit, according to a ...
Exxon Mobil said on Thursday that crude run rates at its 563,000 barrel per day refinery in Baytown, Texas, were back to normal after a small fire on Wednesday, according to a company spokeswoman.