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KCBX Terminals
   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 protestsResidents 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
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