Venezuelan oil has been refined by one of the largest U.S. refineries operated by Chevron in Pascagoula, Miss. since the 1990s. That refinery may get the opportunity to process even more Venezuelan oil courtesy of the recently assumed guardianship of the Venezuelan oil industry by President Donald Trump.

But instead of appreciating the economic activity that tends to improve the health and standard of living of local communities, green activists have enlisted the New York Times to attack the facility as a health threat.

In her video story, “Chevron’s Oil Deals in Venezuela Could Worsen Pollution in Mississippi,” reporter Hiroko Tabuchi claimed, “Studies have found that exposure to pollutants from refineries can lead to acute short-term health effects like irritation, shortness of breath, even nausea.” Then she ominously added: “And in the long-term, they’ve been linked to cancer.”

As Tabuchi said this, the video showed  the cover page of a 2025 study published in a journal called Environment Research Letters about detecting air pollution and its effects in........

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