$6.6 million settlement follows 2019 fire at Texas petrochemical facility

The company that owns a petrochemicals shipping terminal in Deer Park, Texas, which was the site of a serious fire in March 2019, will pay the state of Texas and the US government over $6.6 million (£5.2 million) to resolve claims for environmental damage caused by the incident. While no injuries or fatalities resulted, the fire saw multiple storage tanks of naphtha and xylenes burn for several days before the flames were brought under control. The compensation paid by the Intercontinental Terminals Company (ITC) will be used to compensate the public for the impacts on natural resources caused by the release of hazardous chemicals from the facility as well as government agency costs.