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CORPUS CHRISTI: Citizens for Environmental Justice writes letter urging EPA to require Citgo plant changes
by Mike D. Smith, Caller.com
March 29th, 2012
CFEJ is calling on the Environmental Protection Agency to require Citgo to quit storing and using hydrofluoric acid and to switch to a safer alternative.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Look who's coming to the Corpus Christi Environmental Summit
by Staff Reports, Caller.com
November 13th, 2011
An event akin to the successful blending of oil and water will occur Friday at the Del Mar College West Campus. Mayor Joe Adame and Environmental Protection Agency Region 6 Administrator Al Armendariz will co-host the Cor pus Christi Environmental Summit.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Citgo criminal trial saga continues
by Rick Spruill, the Caller-Times
April 30th, 2011
Almost four years after being found guilty of violating the federal Clean Air Act of 1970, Citgo Petroleum Corp. has yet to be sentenced as lawyers for both sides continue filing motions in federal court.

CORPUS CHRISTI : ASARCO/Encycle plant demolition ordered stopped
by Rick Spruill, Caller.com
April 21st, 2011
The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality ordered work stopped after verifying a storage building was demolished without final approval of an air monitoring plan.

CORPUS CHRISTI — EPA official says refineries pose dilemma
by Rick Spruill, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
March 13th, 2011
EPA Administrator: Dona Park, Hillcrest too close to refineries. Some Corpus Christi residents live too close for comfort to the city's largest refineries, the top federal environmental official in five states said.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Walking the Fence Line
March 2nd, 2011
SUZIE CANALES IS ONE CAFETERIA WORKER YOU DON’T want to mess with. Attendees at last December’s first-ever White House Forum on Environmental Justice learned this the hard way.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Encycle Plant Set for Demolition
by Rick Spruill, Caller.com
January 22nd, 2011
CORPUS CHRISTI — An insider's take on the operations of the now defunct ASARCO/Encycle plant on Up River Road has nearby residents questioning demolition plans.

CORPUS CHRISTI: Stress, Pollution and Poverty: A Vicious Cycle?
by JOHN COLLINS RUDOLF, The New York Times
January 11th, 2011
“We need to stop being studied to death,” Suzie Canales, co-founder of a Corpus Christi grassroots environmental group, told Ms. Jackson at the forum, according to Greenwire. Later, speaking to the assembled forum, Ms. Canales disparaged the E.P.A’s new environmental justice road map."

CORPUS CHRISTI: Environmental Activist meets with EPA Chief
by Rick Spruill, Caller-Times
December 15th, 2010
Suzie Canales, local activists and founder of Watchdog Group Citizens for Environmental Justice meets with EPA Chief, after her comments caught the attention of the nation’s top environmental officials.

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: Community members derail housing project planned for contaminated lot
by Denise Malan, the Caller-Times
September 19th, 2009
Because of pressure from a local environmental group and GCM partner, The Corpus Christi Housing Authority withdrew from the D.N. Leathers Townhomes project because the land was contaminated.

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: Land for public housing project contaminated, report shows
by Fanny S. Chirinos, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
September 3rd, 2009
Citizens for Environmental Justice, let by long-time GCM partner Suzie Canales, released a report showing that the Corpus Christi Housing Authority ignored evidence of possibly contaminated groundwater and soil at the site of a proposed housing project

CORPUS CHRISTI, TX: Hydrogen Fluoride causes concern for local communities
by Fanny S. Chirinos, Corpus Christi Caller-Times
August 15th, 2009
After a Citgo plant fire last month, environmental groups urge refineries to consider alternatives to hydrogen fluoride.

U.S. Refineries' Carcinogenic Pollution Rose From 2004-2006, Underreporting of Millions of Pounds of Emissions Suspected
by Environmental Integrity Project (EIP)
October 2nd, 2008
In a disturbing reversal of a positive trend in earlier years, emissions of carcinogens from U.S. refineries actually went up between 2004 and 2006, according to a new study

CORPUS CHRISTI: Refinery Neighbor Study shows high levels of benzene
by Dan Kelley
September 8th, 2008
Blood and urine samples from residents in Corpus Christi's Hillcrest neighborhood show benzene levels about 14 times higher than those found among gas station workers in Mexico, according to a study released Friday.

State agency accuses Citgo of 3 violations:"They're gassing the community repeatedly, with no regard for human health"
by Fanny S. Chirinos
August 13th, 2008
Citgo was cited for three violations stemming from a Jan. 1 release of more than 14,000 pounds of sulfur dioxide.

BIG OIL IN TEXAS: “REMEMBER THE VICTIMS OF CITGO’S CRIMES!”
National and State Environmental Justice Activists Will Descend on Corpus Christi to Support the Victims of Citgo’s Crimes with Local EJ Activists During a Rally and March Friday, November 2, 2007

Citgo Protest March
A group of environmental activists staged a march and a protest in front of Citgo refinery. They say they wanted to draw attention to the pollution that comes from that plant, and the health problems they say the plant causes in the nearby Hillcrest neighborhood.

Guard: No one entered jury room in Citgo case - CITGO claims activist tampered with panel
Canales wrote in her blog that she was 'a fly on the wall' during deliberations. Prosecutors in the USA v. Citgo trial have filed a response to Citgo's claim that a local environmental activist tampered with the jury during deliberations -- a sworn statement from the jury room's guard who said no one who didn't belong entered the room.



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