Higher-than-allowed levels of chemicals were released into the air from the Valero refinery, prompting a report to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality while several units at Marathon's refinery went offline. That incident did not require an emissions report to the state's environmental agency.
Bruce Clawson, the city's director of emergency management, said neither company contacted the city as required.
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