Local petrochemical facilities pump out essential plastic goods—for gloves, masks, gowns, and more—as well as harmful pollutants.
Pollution
Gulf Coast citizen-activists collected 30 million plastic pellets in order to prove that Formosa was violating the Clean Water Act.
Transportation edged out electricity as the biggest source of carbon emissions last year in the United States.
According to a new report ranking the ten worst mercury-emitting coal plants in the US.
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.
Three Texas metropolitan areas landed on Travel + Leisure's list of America's dirtiest cities.
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.
The EPA announced new mercury emissions rules that please environmentalists, but the timeline and potential price tag worries industry officials.
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.
Citizens groups in Corpus Christi blame pollution for high cance rates—but they must prove it.