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Goldsmith Gas Plant Emissions: What the DCP Settlement Means for Your Family’s Legal Rights in Ector County If you live near the Goldsmith Gas Plant — if your child’s asthma started or worsened while you lived under the orange glow of its flare, if you can still remember the rotten-egg smell that came with it on certain nights — you need to understand one thing about the settlement you may have just heard about: it does not compensate you. Not a dollar. The $500,000 that DCP Operating Company agreed to pay goes toward community air-quality improvements, not to the families who breathed what that plant released. The automatic penalties — up to $14,500 per ton of hydrogen sulfide — apply to future emissions exceedances, not to the harm already done to your lungs, your children, or your property. What the settlement does, powerfully, is establish on the public record that one of the largest flared acid gas emitters in Texas was releasing hydrogen sulfide and sulfur dioxide into the air your family breathed. That record is the foundation for a separate legal right you may still have — a toxic tort claim that the environmental groups’ citizen suit did not…