KCBX Terminals

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]