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Chicago moves to enclose dusty petcoke piles
2013-12-19 00:01:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Chicago Tribune: If companies want to continue storing giant mounds of petroleum coke on Chicago's Southeast Side, they soon will have to start doing so indoors. Responding to months of public outrage about black dust clouds swirling off uncovered piles along the Calumet River, Mayor Rahm Emanuel plans to unveil new regulations Thursday requiring large storage terminals in the city to fully enclose petroleum coke, coal and other bulk materials. The facilities also will be required to operate dust suppression...
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Elevators Drying Piles Of Wet Corn
2013-11-30 01:40:57| Agriculture - Topix.net
By now, most of KELOLAND's corn has been harvested. Even with a bulk of the crop out of the fields, there's still plenty of work to finish.
Piles of Midwest 'Petcoke' Raising Residents' Ire
2013-11-27 06:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: The images are startling. Billowing black clouds darken the daytime sky as wind-driven grit pelts homes and cars and forces bewildered residents to take cover. The onslaught, captured in photos and video footage from Detroit and Chicago this year, was caused by the same thing: brisk winds sweeping across huge black piles of petroleum coke, or "petcoke," a powdery byproduct of oil refining that's been accumulating along Midwest shipping channels and sparking a new wave of health and environmental...
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Piles of tar-sands waste in Chicago are pissing people off
2013-11-19 23:40:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: Clouds of coal dust and petroleum coke, a waste product from the refining of tar-sands oil, have been enveloping neighborhoods on Chicago`s southeast side. Federal, state, and city officials are finally moving to temper the dangerous air pollution. The villains: KCBX Terminals (a division of Koch Industries) and Beemsterboer Slag Co. The villainous acts: The companies own three terminals along the Calamut River that are storing huge piles of coal and petroleum coke, aka petcoke, which is coming...
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Detroits dirty petcoke piles disappear, but where did they go?
2013-09-06 20:41:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Grist: The Koch brothers finally took their towering piles of tar-sands oil refinery waste away from Detroit. But where did they send the stuff? That`s a bit of a mystery. Huge piles of petroleum coke started building up along the city`s riverfront after a refinery began processing tar-sands oil from Canada in November. Koch Carbon, an affiliate of Koch Industries, peered into the dark mass and saw, ka-ching, opportunity, so it bought up all the waste. The material has little commercial value in...