Gulf Coast citizen-activists collected 30 million plastic pellets in order to prove that Formosa was violating the Clean Water Act.
Pollution
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.
