In Port Arthur, Creating COVID-19 Medical Equipment Puts Residents’ Health at Risk
Local petrochemical facilities pump out essential plastic goods—for gloves, masks, gowns, and more—as well as harmful pollutants.
Pollution
Politics & Policy
October 16, 2019
No More Nurdles? Formosa’s Agreement to Stop Pumping Plastics Into Lavaca Bay Is Historic
Gulf Coast citizen-activists collected 30 million plastic pellets in order to prove that Formosa was violating the Clean Water Act.
News & Politics
September 18, 2019
Nurdles All the Way Down
How Texans are taking on plastic pollution—one piece at a time.
Energy
December 8, 2017
Transportation Overtakes Electricity As Top Polluting Sector
Transportation edged out electricity as the biggest source of carbon emissions last year in the United States.
Energy
January 21, 2013
Five of the Worst Mercury-Polluting Power Plants Are In Texas
According to a new report ranking the ten worst mercury-emitting coal plants in the US.
January 21, 2013
Texas’s Love Affair with “Big Chicken”
How have industrial chicken farms changed Texas?
January 21, 2013
Texas Waterways are Nation’s Fourth Most Polluted
Companies released some 14.6 million pounds of industrial pollutants and toxic chemicals into Texas' waterways in 2010. Find out which water channels are the dirtiest.
September 20, 2012
Survey Says Texas Has Three of America’s Dirtiest Cities
Three Texas metropolitan areas landed on Travel + Leisure's list of America's dirtiest cities.
January 24, 2012
A River (of Pig Blood) Runs Through It
Columbia Packing Co., a meatpacking plant in Dallas's Oak Cliff neighborhood, has been accused of dumping pig blood into Cedar Creek, which feeds into the Trinity River.
Energy
December 21, 2011
More EPA Regulations Upset Power Industry Leaders
The EPA announced new mercury emissions rules that please environmentalists, but the timeline and potential price tag worries industry officials.
Feature
August 31, 1996
Environment • Tony Amos
Gulf pro.
News & Politics
March 1, 1996
Big Bend, R.I.P.?
Air pollution from Mexico has descended on Big Bend big time and while officials on both sides of the border dither, our last unspoiled frontier is slipping away.
Politics & Policy
April 30, 1995
Pine and Agony
Reporter
April 30, 1995
Refinery Woe
Citizens groups in Corpus Christi blame pollution for high cance rates—but they must prove it.
News & Politics
November 1, 1981
Heavy Breathing
Houston’s air may be a slow killer, but the state and the feds spend more time battling each other than fighting pollution.
Feature
August 31, 1975
Mexico City Is the Most Uninhabitable City in the World.
From the Mexico Package (September 1975).