'We're being wrapped in poison'

PONCA CITY, Oklahoma — When Earl “Trey” Howe III returned home here after four years of military service, the first thing he noticed was the smell.

Howe grew up in and around Ponca City, the site of the Phillips 66 refinery, one of the oldest and largest crude oil refineries and tank farms in the country. The smell from the plant — a sulfur-rich odor somewhere between rotten eggs and freshly paved asphalt — was so constant, he’d never even noticed it.

But now, it seemed to follow him everywhere.

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