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A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

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Its main facility, opened in 2004, now occupies about 8 acres along the San Jacinto River in Channelview. Joe Lopez died in 2004 of kidney failure triggered by diabetes at the age of 65. In 2014, he criticized the EPA’s efforts to regulate ozone, an odorless, colorless ingredient in smog that exacerbates asthma. “I