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A Caribbean island bet its future on petrochemicals. Then oil rained down on homes.
CNN
After the EPA shut down Limetree Bay refinery, St. Croix is weighing its economic future against the health and environmental impacts of betting big on oil.
"The smell was so strong, like sulfur, like rotten eggs," the 58-year-old homemaker recalled. Then oil was discovered in her yard in mid-May. Two days earlier, a flare incident occurred at the Limetree Bay refinery upwind of Thomas's home. As flames and smoke billowed out of the flare stack, oil droplets were launched into the sky, carried west by the wind and rained down on nearby homes.![](/newspic/picid-6252001-20250211032809.jpg)
At least 1 dead and several injured after a private jet crashed into another upon arrival in Arizona
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California man finds 525-pound animal under his home after Los Angeles fires. The bear goes by Barry
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