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		<title><![CDATA[REPORT: TEXAS PLANTS GUSH EMISSIONS, ESCAPE FINES]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Over the course of three days in January, the BASF-Atofina ethylene plant in Port Arthur, Texas, released more than 65 tons of hazardous volatile organic compounds VOCs into the atmosphere. That same month, the Premcor refinery nearby released 208 tons of sulfur dioxide (SO2); nearly 25 tons of VOCs and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Emissions Figures Are High for Southeast Texas Refineries, Chemical Plants.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The Beaumont Enterprise, Texas Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News    Oct. 18--PORT ARTHUR, Texas--Malfunctions in five refineries and  chemical  plants in south Jefferson County resulted in excessive  emissions totaling more  than 4.2 million pounds from January through  September, a private  environmental research group...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 18 Oct 2002 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Petrochemical Firm Guilty of Hiding Pollution Violations at Texas Oil Refinery.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By James Pinkerton, Houston Chronicle Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Apr. 10--CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas--A subsidiary of the petrochemical  giant  Koch Industries Inc. was convicted Monday of concealing  environmental  violations at its oil refinery here and assessed the most  expensive criminal  pollution...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Tue, 10 Apr 2001 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[San Antonio, Texas-Area Refiner Agrees to Heavy Fine.]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[By John Tedesco, San Antonio Express-News Knight Ridder/Tribune  Business News    Apr. 10--CORPUS CHRISTI, Texas--Koch Petroleum Group LP, a major  oil  company that employs 4,000 people in Texas, admitted Monday to  lying about  pollution at one of its refineries in the mid-1990s and...]]></description>
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		<title><![CDATA[Kansas Oil Company Executives to Testify at Corpus Christi, Texas, Trial.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Oct. 6--Koch Industries and four of its senior employees are  scheduled to appear today in federal court in Corpus Christi, Texas.    They are charged with deliberately violating air pollution laws and  conspiring to lie about problems at a Texas refinery.    Koch calls...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Sun, 08 Oct 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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		<title><![CDATA[Texas Grand Jury Indicts Wichita, Kan.-Based Petroleum Firm.(Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News)]]></title>
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		<description><![CDATA[Sep. 29--WASHINGTON--A federal grand jury in Texas returned a  97-count indictment Thursday against Koch Industries, its petroleum  subsidiary and four employees, charging that they violated federal  environmental laws at a Corpus Christi refinery and made false  statements to regulators.    Justice Department officials described...]]></description>
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		<pubDate>Fri, 29 Sep 2000 23:59:59 -0700</pubDate>
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