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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.
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]