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  • The affirmative defense allows corporate polluters to avoid accountability through the legal system and continues to exact serious impacts on Texans. Photo: Julie Dermansky.

    What is the affirmative defense?

    By Allyn West
    03.2.2021

  • The largest sources of ozone-forming pollution in Houston are the oil, gas and chemical facilities clustered around the Ship Channel.

    Texas can't keep hoping individual actions will solve Houston's industrial-sized ozone problem

    By Catherine Fraser
    05.31.2022

  • The Trump administration rejected stronger protections against soot, the nation’s most widespread deadly air pollutant.

    Trump's EPA rejects stronger protections against the most widespread deadly air pollutant in the U.S.

    By Washington Post
    12.7.2020

  • A chemical explosion at the port in Beirut killed at least 135 people, according to the Associated Press.

    The Beirut blast exposes the lessons that haven't been learned from previous chemical disasters

    By Associated Press News
    08.5.2020

  • Scientists have known for decades that ethylene oxide can cause cancer and more immediate harms.

    Trump's EPA encouraged companies to revise their records about a cancer-causing chemical

    By The Intercept
    03.18.2021

  • EPA Administrator Michael Regan ended his "journey to justice" tour in Houston. Photo: Matt Tresaugue.

    With the EPA on board, it's time Texas took Houston's environmental justice problems seriously

    By Keith Downey
    01.26.2022

  • The INEOS plant outside Houston is one of the 10 most toxic industrial polluters nationwide.

    This chemical causes cancer. Here's what Texas needs to do about it.

    By Allyn West
    01.25.2022

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