Texas
Headquartered in The Woodlands, Texas, Chevron's chemical business, a partnership with ConocoPhillips formed in 2000, includes the operation of 34 chemical manufacturing facilities across the U.S. and the world, producing a host of toxic chemicals dangerous to the communities where they are produced and where the products are disposed of, including polystyrene, styrene, paraxylene and benzene, a known human carcinogen.
Chevron Phillips' 10 Texas facilities, dangerous even when operating in top form, are found in constant violation of Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) air quality and hazardous waste laws. In just the first two months of 2010, Chevron's Port Arthur and Sweeny/Old Ocean facilities were found to have committed violations including the unauthorized releases of tens of thousand of pounds of toxic or otherwise harmful compounds.
On August 19, 2009, Environment Texas filed a lawsuit in federal court in Houston charging Chevron Phillips with repeatedly violating the Clean Air Act at its Cedar Bayou plant. Community organizations explain that Texas is an area of clustered toxic industrial polluters, facing issues of multiple chemical exposures and its synergistic effects on the population. With incongruent levels of "self-reported" toxic emissions, the Environmental Integrity Project recently declared, "Texas' state air pollution program is so deeply flawed that it requires a complete overhaul by the U.S. EPA."
More information on Chevron in Texas can be found in the Alternative Annual Report
