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Chemical Plants Flock to Louisiana for Cheap Natural Gas

Susan Buchanan | Posted 08.13.2012 | Green
Read More: Refineries, Air Monitoring, Europe, Ethylene, Lung Disease, Fracking, Royal Dutch Shell, Environmental Integrity Project, Texas, Pipelines, Haynesville Shale, Pollution, Louisiana Bucket Brigade, Crude Oil, Oil Companies, Clean Air Act, Louisiana Oil and Gas Association, Louisiana Dept. Of Environmental Quality, Chemical Exposure, Asthma, Mississippi River, Green News
Susan Buchanan

Louisiana has attracted some cleaner industries recently, but after natural gas prices dropped to ten-year lows this spring, chemical manufacturers are rushing to build and expand. Residents need those jobs but fear explosions and toxic emissions.

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Why The Spring Season Means High Gas Prices

AP | JONATHAN FAHEY | Posted 06.07.2012 | Business
Read More: Refineries, High Gas Prices, Gas Prices, Gas Consumption, Spring, Gas Stations, Fuel Prices, Consumer Spending, Ap, Video, Business News

NEW YORK (AP) — Ahh, spring. The days get longer, flowers bloom, and gasoline gets more expensive. It's a galling time for drivers, a...

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Janell Ross

Mighty Mississippi Moves Oil Prices

HuffingtonPost.com | Janell Ross | Posted 07.12.2011 | Business
Read More: Refineries, Gas Prices, Gas Futures Contracts, Gasoline, Mississippi River, Crude Oil, Oil Prices, Flooding, Business News

Fears that flooding along the lower Mississippi would disrupt gasoline production at the region's refineries were eased Wednesday, but highlighted the...

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Wall Street Speculators Driving Up Oil Prices

Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Persian Gulf, Gas Prices, Commodities, Opec, Economy, Speculation, Supply, Oil, Oil Prices, Speculators, Consumption, Wall Street, Oil Supply, Refineries, Crude Oil, Business News

WASHINGTON -- Oil consumption has fallen, demand from U.S. motorists for gasoline is flat at best and refiners that turn crude into fuel are operatin...

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Too High a Price for High Octane

Leo W. Gerard | Posted 05.25.2011 | Business
Read More: Refineries, Sunoco, Exxonmobil, Sulfuric Acid, Alcoa, Myron Arnowitt, Center for American Progress, Labor Day, Octane, Chemical Security 101, Hydrofluoric Acid, Public Interest Research Group, Holly Refinery, Marathon Petroleum, Citgo, Suncor Refinery, Pirg, Paul Orum, U.S. Department of Labor, Clean Water Action, Bhopal, Business News
Leo W. Gerard

The refineries in this country still using unnecessarily hazardous hydrofluoric acid must ensure their workers and the residents of their neighborhoods live to see Labor Day 2010.

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