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Chemical Leak At Houston-Area Petrochemical Fire Halts Ship Traffic

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According to a report by Reuters, on Friday, an earthen barrier holding chemicals that leaked from a massive petrochemical fire outside Houston breached, prompting travel restrictions near the site, one of the busiest US ports for oil exports. Intercontinental Terminals Co, a unit of Japan’s Mitsui & Co, issued a shelter-in-place warning for workers at the Deer Park, Texas, fuels storage facility and neighboring businesses. Reuters reports that the US Coast Guard halted ship traffic along a five-mile stretch of the Houston Ship Channel, a key industrial waterway that connects Houston to the Gulf Of Mexico.

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