{"id":436009,"date":"2026-09-14T22:48:11","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:48:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436009\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T22:48:11","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T22:48:11","slug":"large-flare-smoke-rises-over-east-houston-after-power-outage-at-chemical-plant-houston-public-media","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436009\/","title":{"rendered":"Large flare, smoke rises over east Houston after power outage at chemical plant \u2013 Houston Public Media"},"content":{"rendered":"

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Dominic Anthony Walsh \/ Houston Public Media<\/p>\n

A plume of flames and smoke emit from a chemical plant on Monday, Sep. 14, 2025.<\/p>\n

After a power outage at a chemical plant on Monday afternoon, a large flare from an elevated smokestack was emitting flames and a plume of smoke over east Houston.<\/p>\n

A spokesperson for TPC Group \u2014 which operates the facility off of Highway 225 and Goodyear Drive \u2014 said in a written statement that a power outage \u201cimpacted our boilers, resulting in flaring with visible smoke,\u201d starting around 3 p.m.<\/p>\n

\u201cOur Operations team is responding to the issue and is safely restoring power in an orderly manner,\u201d the spokesperson said at 4:18 p.m. \u201cWe are also restarting the boilers to reduce the impact on the flare.\u201d<\/p>\n

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A Houston Public Media reporter spoke with employees leaving the property, who said they had been sent home early. <\/p>\n

The TPC representative said the company was \u201cconducting air monitoring in and around the site to help ensure the protection of our people, the community, and the environment.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cWe have made the required notifications and do not believe there to be an impact on the community,\u201d the TPC spokesperson said. \u201cOur focus remains on safely resolving the situation. We will investigate the cause of the power outage once we have safely restored power to the facility.\u201d<\/p>\n

In June, a tire fire at nearby Mammoth Metal Recycling produced a much larger plume of smoke<\/a>, prompting an elevated emergency response.<\/p>\n

Harris County Pollution Control Services did not respond to questions about the flaring on Monday. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Dominic Anthony Walsh \/ Houston Public Media A plume of flames and smoke emit from a chemical plant…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436010,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[13544,2327,151120,56,58,57,66,223,91269,151121],"class_list":["post-436009","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-east-houston","tag-environment","tag-flaring","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-local","tag-news","tag-smoke-plume","tag-tpc-group"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436009","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=436009"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436009\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436010"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436009"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436009"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436009"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}