An environmental attorney and several residents of the Archia
Courts public housing complex on Thursday lobbied the Baytown
Housing Authority board to move quickly to sell the complex to
Exxon Mobil.
In January, the development, situated across Airhart Drive from
the company’s Baytown Refinery, was enveloped in a sticky mist
containing process gas oil, which vented from one of the refinery’s
nearby tanks.
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