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Port Neches Plant Rocked By Multiple Explosions Was Declared High Priority Violator By EPA

Kiah Collier, San Angelo Standard-Times

The Port Neches chemical plant where two explosions and an ongoing fire prompted widespread mandatory evacuations Wednesday has a years-long history of...