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Environment
3:33 pm
Thu May 30, 2013

Baton Rouge's Corroded, Overpolluting Neighbor: Exxon Mobil

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An evening view of the Exxon Mobil oil refinery complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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Tonga Nolan is an attorney who lives in the Standard Heights neighborhood and is active with the Louisiana Bucket Brigade, which monitors air quality around the Baton Rouge Exxon Mobil facility.
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Larry Alexander lives a few hundred yards from Exxon Mobil. Many of the lots around his house are vacant because Exxon bought out his neighbors over the years.
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Anna Hrybyk (left) talks with Standard Heights neighborhood residents Terrica Hardnett (middle) and Terrell Sylvas about the current state of the EPA's investigation into the Exxon Mobil plant.
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Tonga Nolan shows a folder of pictures from the EPA investigation into the plant, which found rusted pipes and leaks in many areas.
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Exxon Mobil is one of several companies with operations clustered together in the same part of Baton Rouge. These plants hold their products in hundreds of large tanks like this one. Scientists have found that these tanks can be a big source of toxic pollution; when the tanks get old, they can leak fumes, especially through tops that no longer fit well.
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An evening view of the Exxon Mobil oil refinery and petrochemical complex in Baton Rouge, La.
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This composite image from the top of the Louisiana state capitol building shows the Exxon Mobil complex in Baton Rouge.
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Originally published on Fri May 31, 2013 11:17 am

If you stand in front of Almena and Sidney Poray's house in Baton Rouge, La., and look straight down the street, past the other houses and the shade trees, you see more than a dozen plumes of exhaust in various hues of gray and white.

"That's something you see every day, the same thing if not more," says Almena Poray. "Sometimes it's a darker gray; sometimes it's a black smoke coming out."

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Environment
3:07 pm
Thu December 20, 2012

EPA Notes Safety, Maintenance Issues at Exxon Refinery

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ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery.
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EPA inspectors made a surprise visit in July to ExxonMobil's Baton Rouge refinery.


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