Harris County DA hits ITC with five environmental charges

The Harris County District Attorney’s office has charged Intercontinental Terminals Company with five counts of water pollution, Kim Ogg announced Monday.ITC’s Deer Park petrochemical storage tanks caught fire in mid-March. The days-long conflagration created a thick plume of toxic smoke and chemicals that blanketed parts of greater Houston. The blaze led neighborhoods and schools to “shelter-in-place,” prompted to the temporary closure of the Houston Ship Channel, and ra