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From One Breath Partnership
Created by the One Breath Partnership team and contributors
What is particulate matter?
By Matt Tresaugue
04.27.2020
Community-led air monitoring in Pleasantville
By Matt Tresaugue
03.18.2019
TPC Group's Port Neches plant leaked chemicals, then exploded. Now they want Houston to trust them.
By Sim Kern
11.1.2022
What is a Superfund site?
By Xander Peters
02.8.2021
How ports can use the Bipartisan Infrastructure Law to protect public health and act on climate
By Elena Craft
03.10.2022
Poem: 'Through the Eye'
By Ariana Lee
10.5.2022
TCEQ listens to corporate polluters, not communities. That has to change.
By Sim Kern
11.22.2021
In the Coastal Bend, the causes of climate change are being permitted. Texas isn't considering the consequences.
By Amal Ahmed
08.22.2022
‘We can't solve climate change without state legislators’: A conversation with Climate Cabinet Action's Caroline Spears
By Catherine Fraser
01.13.2021
TxDOT should protect all Houstonians. But their I-45 expansion would pave over some.
By Clair Hopper
09.14.2021
Why doesn't TCEQ fine polluters more?
By Michael Coleman
08.20.2020
'There is nothing more important than air quality': A conversation with Rep. Ann Johnson
By Jennifer Schmerling
12.8.2020
The Gulf Coast is our backyard. We can’t let polluters threaten our health.
By Michael Coleman
09.11.2020
Houstonians don't have to live with pollution
By Karina Cedillo
09.23.2019
'A sword and a shield': A conversation about accountability with Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee
By Allyn West
09.13.2021
No more 'sacrifice zones.' It's time for Port Houston to become a good neighbor.
By Allyn West
09.6.2021
Along the Gulf Coast, mental health suffers even after the floodwaters recede
By Xander Peters
04.7.2021
'It is our future': A conversation with Catherine Fraser
By Allyn West
03.2.2020
The communities who need it most aren't receiving air quality information during disasters like Hurricane Laura
By Sara Sneath
10.21.2020
'Ignoring warning signs': A conversation about climate action with Emily Atkin
By Catherine Fraser
06.1.2020
Freeways were built only for people like me. We need to build for everyone.
By Molly Cook
09.14.2021
No amount of benzene is safe to breathe. The worst polluters of it operate in Houston.
By Paul MacGillis-Falcon
06.1.2022
'A giant whose shoulders I stand on': The legacy of the father of environmental justice, Dr. Robert Bullard
By One Breath Partnership
01.14.2021
Black communities need clean air to breathe
By Catherine Flowers
06.12.2020
Does Texas know what's in the air in Port Arthur?
By Amal Ahmed
01.27.2022
'They're saving it for their own': A conversation about environmental racism with Brentin Mock
By Katie Moore
07.8.2020
'Some consequences are permanent': A conversation about environmental justice with Virginia Palacios
By Allyn West
09.9.2020
Industry’s delay only made Harvey's air pollution worse
By Matt Tresaugue
08.16.2018
This chemical causes cancer. Here's what Texas needs to do about it.
By Allyn West
01.25.2022
Dade Phelan failed to protect Texans from chemical disasters
By John Beard
06.3.2021
Place, public health and Port Houston: A conversation with Jennifer Hadayia
By Aubrey Calaway
12.9.2021
Environmental agencies aren't protecting Texans from a cancer-causing chemical
By Irene Vázquez
06.25.2020
You don't want to live near a concrete batch plant. But TCEQ lets it happen too easily.
By Allyn West
08.12.2020
The W. A. Parish plant is burning your lungs and the planet. Why won’t NRG replace it?
By Allyn West
11.16.2020
TCEQ tiene que comunicar en español para todos los tejanos
By Erandi Treviño
06.12.2021
Have Houstonians finally had it with hands-off government?
By Allyn West
05.19.2021
'We're not going anywhere'
By Irene Vázquez
02.18.2020
Port Houston wants to be an environmental leader, but their nearly $1 billion dredging project goes the wrong way
By Elena Craft
12.18.2020
Who's going to take responsibility for air pollution in Texas?
By Allyn West
03.4.2021
What is sulfur dioxide?
By Torie Ludwin
10.27.2020
Why doesn't Texas prevent the concrete plants from coming into your community?
By Amal Ahmed
04.27.2022
For the good of Texans, it's time to make polluters pay
By Matt Tresaugue
12.30.2020
Any way the wind blows
By Grist
02.21.2023
'Our cities can be so much better': A conversation about air pollution with Beth Gardiner
By Allyn West
12.12.2019
Where's the equity in Houston's climate action plan?
By Michael Coleman
06.4.2020
Transportation can connect us. And it can isolate us. I've lived both.
By Desiree Alejandro
08.5.2021
Bakeyah Nelson: 'EPA and TCEQ are not holding polluters accountable'
By One Breath Partnership
02.28.2019
'We need to be figuring out how we can come together': A conversation with Kam Franklin
By Allyn West
10.19.2022
The tools to protect the Houston neighborhoods that need it most
By Elena Craft
06.17.2020
What is environmental racism?
By Joy Semien
07.8.2020
'Nobody was paying attention': A conversation with Public Health Watch's Jim Morris
By Lexi Ambrogi
09.8.2022
'Pasadena is my home': A conversation about environmental justice with Krystal Mireles
By Irene Vázquez
05.20.2021
'Nowhere to walk to': A conversation about transportation and health with David Fields
By Allyn West
07.21.2020
'Port Arthur should not look like this'
By Tom Pelton
01.24.2022
With the EPA on board, it's time Texas took Houston's environmental justice problems seriously
By Keith Downey
01.26.2022
It's not easy to raise children with asthma during a pandemic. She's making the hard decisions.
By Leah Binkovitz
09.17.2020
The Gulf Coast is worth the fight
By Tonya Calhoun
09.23.2021
What is benzene?
By Allyn West
11.1.2019
We're good neighbors. Why won't Houston's industry be?
By Bridgette Murray
08.24.2020
Butadiene causes cancer. A corporation with a history of illegal pollution wants to release more of it in Houston.
By Sim Kern
05.4.2021
To expand the Houston Ship Channel, the Army Corps intends to dump on the same communities as always
By Brendan Gibbons
03.6.2023
How TCEQ made a cancer-causing chemical seem safer than it is
By Allyn West
01.16.2020
In Houston's Sunnyside, overburdened from decades of discrimination, you learn to provide for yourself
By Leah Binkovitz
12.9.2020
Texas can't keep hoping individual actions will solve Houston's industrial-sized ozone problem
By Catherine Fraser
05.31.2022
‘Make trouble’: A conversation about servant leadership with Harris County Attorney Christian Menefee
By Allyn West
09.13.2021
What is the affirmative defense?
By Allyn West
03.2.2021
'How can we do better?': A conversation with Houston City Council Member Sallie Alcorn
By Catherine Fraser
05.19.2021
What is ethylene oxide?
By Matt Tresaugue
11.11.2019
What is ozone?
By Catherine Fraser
05.27.2020
Watch: This is our shared home
By One Breath Partnership
11.4.2019
When will "tough-on-crime" Texas enforce clean air laws?
By Amal Ahmed
03.17.2022
What did Texas do about Houston's rash of chemical fires? Not much.
By Michael Coleman
05.24.2019
Houston must learn from our year of disasters
By Allyn West
03.16.2020
The face of the petrochemical industry's recklessness
By Sara Cress
10.16.2019
'Protective of everyone': A conversation about particle pollution with Rachel Fullmer
By Allyn West
04.28.2020
The next Houston should be for us
By Daniel Peña
06.18.2021
'Monuments being toppled': A conversation about environmental racism with Brentin Mock
By Katie Moore
07.9.2020
In Houston, the new normal should include more efforts to reduce air pollution
By Allyn West
05.20.2020
Breaking out of Texas' vicious cycle of climate change, disasters and recovery
By Elena Craft
06.4.2020
Louisiana has been battered this hurricane season. Will the attention last as long as the recovery takes?
By Xander Peters
10.29.2020
'We all breathe the same air': A conversation about equity with Grace Tee Lewis
By Lacy M. Johnson
08.17.2022
'We are fighting for protection': A conversation with Erandi Trevino of Moms Clean Air Force
By Torie Ludwin
04.7.2021
TCEQ makes many questionable decisions. Here are some of the worst.
By Michael Coleman
09.23.2019
Houston Flood Museum introduces mobile storytelling booth to invite community voices
By Emily Hynds
04.17.2023
Hurricane Harvey’s still here for Houston’s historically Black communities
By Rev. James Caldwell
09.6.2022
What TCEQ can change to protect the health of all Texans
By Torie Ludwin
08.11.2020
Communities can monitor their air. Only good government can improve it.
By Dianna Wray
12.10.2021
'You can learn faith': A conversation about climate action with Heather McTeer Toney
By Allyn West
01.25.2020
The sirens of Galena Park
By Sara Cress
01.13.2020
Stay home, work safe? Environmental racism complicates that for many Houstonians
By Leah Binkovitz
07.5.2020
Texans have an opening to envision an environmental agency that works for everyone
By Michael Coleman
11.21.2021
We need to change course on the Ship Channel expansion
By Ken Adler
08.15.2023
What is Port Houston's Project 11?
By Emily Hynds
07.6.2023
The Army Corps doesn't know what's in the dirt
By Allyn West
07.7.2023