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KCBX Terminals sign

A passing car shows the scale of a petroleum coke pile on Chicago's South Side.

Close-up view of a pet coke pile on Chicago's south side.

KCBX Terminals is a petcoke, coal, salt, slag, cement, and clinker processing facility and ocean freight docking and loading services facility[1] owned by Koch Industries[2][3] located in Hegewisch, Chicago.

## Pollution and protests[edit]

Residents around the facility have claimed that dust blowing from the facility into their neighborhood[4] is making them sick.[5][6][7][8][9][10] On April 12 and May 8 of 2014 KCBX was found to be in violation of air quality standards.[11] In 2014, the company announced that it would build an enclosure to the land by 2016 at a cost of $120 million.[12][13] After requests for a time extension,[14][15] it was announced in 2015 that the plant would be closed in late 2015.[16] The site currently handles over 11 million tons of petcoke per year.[17] In 2017, it was reported that the facility was a manganese polluter.[18][19]

There have been numerous protests to close the plant.[20]

## References[edit]

1. ^ "Stocks". Bloomberg News.
2. ^ The Port of Chicago, Illinois. U.S. Army Corps of Engineers, Water Resources Support Center, Ports and Waterways Division, Navigation Data Center. 1995-01-01.
3. ^ "Illinois pollution board rules against new limits on petcoke". america.aljazeera.com. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
4. ^ "Petroleum Coke on Chicago's South Side". www.epa.gov. 11 March 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
5. ^ "City of Chicago :: What is Petroleum Coke?". www.cityofchicago.org. Archived from the original on 2016-01-01. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
6. ^ "Southeast Siders: No End in Sight For Pet Coke". Medill Reports Chicago. 19 March 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
7. ^ "The Mountains of Black Dust Next Door Were Covering Them in Grime. So They Fought Back".
8. ^ "KCBX takes the hint on petcoke". chicagotribune.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
9. ^ Toxic Waste in the Windy City: Petcoke, retrieved 2015-11-25
10. ^ "How One Community Is Kicking The Koch Brothers' Harmful Black Dust Out Of Their Neighborhood". The Huffington Post. 27 February 2015. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
11. ^ "KCBX Denies Petcoke Dust Problem Despite Air Quality Violations". Chicago Tonight | WTTW. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
12. ^ "Chicago 'Petcoke' Handler Says It'll Enclose Piles". 17 December 2014.
13. ^ "KCBX to build $120 million petcoke enclosure". nwitimes.com. Retrieved 2015-11-25.
14. ^ "Emanuel denies KCBX request for more time to build petcoke storage facilities | Chicago Sun-Times". Archived from the original on 2016-03-01. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
15. ^ "KCBX Terminals requests more time to comply with city petcoke regulations". ABC7 Chicago. 17 September 2014. Retrieved 2015-12-31.
16. ^ "With Chicago's KCBX petcoke site set to close, Indiana environmentalists worry they're next | WBEZ 91.5 Chicago". www.wbez.org. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23.
17. ^ "Just How Big Are Chicago's Petcoke Piles? They're Enormous". 15 July 2015.
18. ^ "S.H. Bell: We're Not Sole Manganese Source on Chicago's Southeast Side". WTTW News. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
19. ^ "Feds Asked To Test Air Pollution At Site Of Planned Southeast Side Metal Scrapper". Block Club Chicago. 2021-02-19. Retrieved 2021-09-23.
20. ^ "5 arrested during petcoke protest on Southeast Side". Chicago Tribune.

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