{"id":436051,"date":"2026-09-14T23:36:18","date_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:36:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436051\/"},"modified":"2026-09-14T23:36:18","modified_gmt":"2026-09-14T23:36:18","slug":"power-outage-at-pasadena-chemical-plant-causes-black-smoke-unusual-flaring","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/436051\/","title":{"rendered":"Power outage at Pasadena chemical plant causes black smoke, &#8216;unusual flaring&#8217;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img alt=\"\" loading=\"eager\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;max-width:791px;max-height:442px;aspect-ratio:1.7895927601809956;width:100%\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/TAT6TFNE5BEL5MIKM3TAYHD7F4.PNG\"\/>WSLS &#8211; generic police graphic<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">PASADENA, Texas \u2013 Unusual flaring and black smoke were reported Monday afternoon at the TPC Group Houston Operations facility in Pasadena following a power outage, according to the City of Pasadena.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">The facility is located at 8600 Park Place Blvd.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">As of a 4:45 p.m. update, officials said the facility was working to safely restore power while air monitoring was underway.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">There is no believed impact to the surrounding community at this time, officials said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">TPC Group also said it does not expect the incident to affect nearby residents and is working to resolve the issue safely and quickly.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf jbiTJv kYFPaL article-text\">Officials said they will continue monitoring the situation.<\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ilkOIf copyright\">Copyright 2026 by KPRC Click2Houston &#8211; All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<p>About the AuthorBrittany Taylor headshot<img alt=\"\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" role=\"presentation\"  style=\"object-fit:cover;max-width:86px;max-height:86px;aspect-ratio:1;width:100%\"  src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/09\/1789428978_423_ac6ea972-d27f-4a4a-a049-b26b4cd16313.png\"\/><a class=\"sc-bmzYkS fERtCt\" href=\"https:\/\/www.click2houston.com\/team\/3TMX3YN53ZCG7B7DUW4BCA3LAA\/\" title=\"View Brittany Taylor&#039;s full profile\" itemprop=\"url\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Brittany Taylor<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"sc-dLMFU sc-fHjqPf ctDavV cigBRW\">Award-winning journalist, mother, YouTuber, social media guru, millennial, mentor, storyteller, University of Houston alumna and Houston-native.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"WSLS &#8211; generic police graphic PASADENA, Texas \u2013 Unusual flaring and black smoke were reported Monday afternoon at&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":436052,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[58942,56,58,57,223,4939,27,151133],"class_list":["post-436051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-houston","tag-chemical-plant","tag-houston","tag-houston-headlines","tag-houston-news","tag-news","tag-pasadena","tag-texas","tag-tpc-group-houston"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436051","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=436051"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/436051\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/436052"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=436051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=436051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-tx\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=436051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}