Houston area residents who live near some scrap metal recycling facilities are inhaling dangerous levels of a metal carcinogen called Chromium Six. Itās the same pollutant at the heart of the class action lawsuit portrayed in the film Erin Brockovich. The Houston Chronicle first reportedĀ about the pollution in 2012, after the city received 189 complaints […]
Big business wants restrictions on local governments that go after polluters in court — will lawmakers grant their wish?
From The Texas Tribune The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality is appealing a lawsuit that it has already won ā and that was filed by children. Environmental advocates say the appeal shows that the state will go to any lengths to fight the suggestion that it address climate change. As part of a national environmental […]
We’ve come a long way since the days when kids played in clouds of DDT, gas stations sold leaded gasoline, and smoking near youngsters was commonplace. America has made great strides since the 1970s in reducing toxins in the environment that cause health issues in children, according to a new edition of the EPA report, […]
The original version of this article, released on March 30, 2012, incorrectly attributed the following quoteĀ to an EPA press release: āIn a press release today, the EPA stated that āmultiple investigations into the claims showed no link between Range Resourcesā operations and water contamination.āā The Texas Oil and Gas Association provided this quote in its […]
Texas political leadership was in a celebratory mood today, after news spread that the state had won a battle in its ongoing legal disputes with the Environmental Protection Agency in federal court earlier in the week. The decision Monday from the 5th US Court of Appeals effectively ordered the Agency to take a second look […]
Yana Skorobogatov of StateImpact Texas researched and reported this article. At a public hearing today in Austin, the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality heard from groups worried about proposed changes to the way the state agency tracks emissions and pollution by companies. A proposal before the Commission as part of the stateās sunset review process […]
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