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Houston's air in the news.

Cancer cluster found around known creosote contamination in Fifth Ward, Kashmere Gardens
By Washington Post
12.5.2019
Could social distancing make it harder to enforce environmental laws?
By Bloomberg Environment
03.19.2020
Federal report suggests 'negligence' worsened ITC fire
By Houston Chronicle
10.31.2019
How is Houston's green transformation leaving Manchester behind?
By Grist
08.15.2017
Industrial pollution is still impacting Houston during the pandemic
By KTRK-TV
04.30.2020
The environmental burdens communities of color have borne
By Robert Bullard
09.10.2019
In the shadows of America's smokestacks, the coronavirus is one more deadly risk
By The New York Times
05.17.2020
Imelda led to at least 100,000 more pounds of air pollution
By Houston Chronicle
09.25.2019
The Port Neches plant was a 'high priority,' but penalties haven't matched
By Texas Tribune
11.27.2019
Emissions from Port Houston's Ship Channel expansion will add to communities' existing environmental burden
By Houston Chronicle
09.9.2021
How one of the worst polluters in Texas gets away with it
By Public Health Watch
02.17.2022
Don't listen to corporations. Environmental regulations are worth it.
By San Antonio Express-News
11.21.2019
After six explosions in less than a year, Houston 'must rethink the bargain we make with industry'
By Houston Chronicle
02.5.2020
Living in Houston comes with 'the hidden tax' of trauma from disasters
By Houston Chronicle
02.22.2021
Port Houston will use less-polluting equipment for Ship Channel expansion
By Houston Chronicle
10.12.2021
'You tell me your ZIP code, and I can tell you how healthy you are'
By Texas Monthly
04.17.2020
Port Houston can't do better by the environment without better goals
By Houston Chronicle
12.10.2021
It's becoming harder for Texans to have confidence in TCEQ
By Houston Chronicle
12.10.2019
'It does not have to be this way. These disasters are preventable.'
By Grist
12.9.2019
Trump's EPA undoes regulations designed to prevent chemical accidents
By Washington Post
11.22.2019
Air pollution was already killing us. Then came the coronavirus. Where's the EPA?
By Allyn West
05.6.2020
Trump's EPA encouraged companies to revise their records about a cancer-causing chemical
By The Intercept
03.18.2021
How Texas allows industry to spew unauthorized air pollution
By Texas Tribune
07.17.2017
The EPA said benzene levels were safe during Harvey. Private monitoring tells a more troubling story.
By ProPublica
09.14.2017
Fifth Ward residents demand action after confirmation of second cancer cluster
By Houston Public Media
02.3.2021
TCEQ wants to raise how much ethylene oxide is 'acceptable'
By Houston Chronicle
09.2.2019
Another consequence of the racism of 'redlining'? More air pollution
By Washington Post
03.9.2022
'The worst possible time': EPA's retreat from regulation will increase coronavirus risks
By Bridgette Murray
04.8.2020
Only one state cut its environmental agency's budget more than Texas in the last decade
By Houston Chronicle
12.5.2019
Texas isn't investing enough in our health and safety
By Ilan Levin
12.9.2019
Texans living with air pollution could be even more vulnerable to COVID-19
By Texas Observer
03.26.2020
Why are Gov. Abbott and TCEQ repeating a mistake and suspending regulations after Imelda?
By Houston Chronicle
09.30.2019
Why didn't TCEQ intervene after months of excessive butadiene at the TPC Group plant?
By Texas Tribune
01.30.2020
Residents of Houston's Fifth Ward fight for 'restitution' from the contamination in their community
By Scalawag
08.3.2021
TCEQ invests in better air monitoring equipment for Houston
By Houston Chronicle
10.21.2019
Texas has given away funds for clean air to widen highways
By Inside Climate News
08.23.2021
Trump's EPA rejects stronger protections against the most widespread deadly air pollutant in the U.S.
By Washington Post
12.7.2020
Unpermitted air pollution doubled in 2018 in Texas
By Houston Chronicle
12.18.2019
We have to clean up the way we get around Houston
By Luke Metzger
11.4.2019
The toxic legacy of Hurricane Harvey's spills
By Houston Chronicle
03.5.2019
Until we hold leaders accountable, dark clouds will hang over Houston
By Bakeyah Nelson
10.3.2019
Where the most harmful industrial polluters are located
By Sojourners
02.26.2020
Why won't TCEQ explain why it weakened protections for a cancer-causing chemical?
By Grist
08.28.2020
EPA report confirms air monitoring during Hurricane Harvey was inadequate
By One Breath Partnership
12.17.2019
There's more particulate matter in our air. And it's costing people their lives.
By Washington Post
10.23.2019
Air pollution could be making the coronavirus more deadly
By The Intercept
03.19.2020
Trump's rollbacks are 'basically killing' Texans
By Associated Press News
04.19.2020
Imelda led to unauthorized releases of benzene and other toxic pollutants
By Houston Chronicle
10.23.2019
The Beirut blast exposes the lessons that haven't been learned from previous chemical disasters
By Associated Press News
08.5.2020
'That monster is going to shake our house apart'
By Washington Post
03.20.2023
Increased production of plastics is increasing risks for Port Arthur residents during the pandemic
By Texas Monthly
09.2.2020
Caring for our shared home this Season of Creation
By Houston Chronicle
09.6.2020
Who's Gov. Abbott's third TCEQ appointment?
By Houston Chronicle
09.17.2019
After the ITC fire, 'wrist-slap fines' aren't enough
By Houston Chronicle
11.7.2019
Young people are leading the way with climate action
By Houston Chronicle
12.6.2019
How racist 'redlining' gave rise to cancer clusters and other environmental injustices
By Zoe Middleton
01.27.2020
Where in the U.S. does a changing climate create the highest risks?
By Scientific American
04.14.2023
It's not enough to sue polluters after chemical fires. We need to enforce the laws we have.
By Victor B. Flatt
04.7.2019
Traffic is down because of stay-home orders, but air pollution? Not so much
By NPR
05.19.2020