I-10 West is closed on the Calcasieu River Bridge, and eastbound traffic is backed up after an accident Monday morning.

The refinery is the nation's seventh-largest. It is tied into a vast pipeline network and has access to the Gulf.

New lawsuits allege two Lake Charles-area petroleum coke plants are illegally discharging lead, mercury, nickel, other metals and carcinogens into the Calcasieu River without state permitting ...