Tag: Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC)

Environmentalists Want EPA’s Emergency Response Team To Investigate Limetree Bay Refinery

CHRISTIANSTED — Responding to a series of refinery mishaps that has exposed St. Croix residents to nauseating fumes for a period of hours to days, a coalition of environmental advocacy organizations has asked U.S. Environmental Protection Agency Administrator Michael Regan to send an emergency response team to Limetree Bay to find out what the community […]

Limetree Bay ‘Accident’ Rained Oil Down On Machuchal Residents Last Month: WaPO

KINGSHILL — Two hours after midnight in St. Croix last month, a filmy vapor rose from a gargantuan oil refinery and floated over nearby homes as quietly as a jumbie in the night The fine mist of oil and water from Limetree Bay refining rained down on the community of Clifton Hill, showering the slick […]

Far From White House, St. Croix Refinery To Test Biden’s Promises On Poverty and Pollution

CHRISTIANSTED — Earlier this month, Loren Hughes, a longtime resident of St. Croix, noticed specks of an oily substance covering his home, as well as those owned by his neighbors. For Hughes, 46, it brought back memories of the last time the south shore refinery was operating, roughly a decade earlier. The refinery restarted last […]