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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