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  • Blogs

    December 27, 2011

    Harris County Sues Over All That Dixon in the San Jacinto River

    Harris County attorney Vince Ryan announced he's suing a collection of companies for 45 years' worth of pollution in the San Jacinto River, and he's asking for up to $25,000 a day in penalties. Ryan is suing International Paper Company, Waste Management, Inc., Waste Management of Texas, Inc. and Mc ... More >>

  • Calendar

    September 29, 2011

    “Great New Work”

    Harris County attorney Vince Ryan announced he's suing a collection of companies for 45 years' worth of pollution in the San Jacinto River, and he's asking for up to $25,000 a day in penalties. Ryan is suing International Paper Company, Waste Management, Inc., Waste Management of Texas, Inc. and Mc ... More >>

  • Blogs

    April 8, 2011

    Kids Plant a Garden at Piney Point Elementary

    ​It was inspiring to watch a few hundred schoolchildren working furiously with trowels and hands, digging holes, planting flowers, bushes, fruit and vegetable seeds, and not tossing dirt on each other. That was the scene at the reconstructed Piney Point Elementary (Pagewood Lane at Fondren) a ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 17, 2011

    Billy Elliot

    ​It was inspiring to watch a few hundred schoolchildren working furiously with trowels and hands, digging holes, planting flowers, bushes, fruit and vegetable seeds, and not tossing dirt on each other. That was the scene at the reconstructed Piney Point Elementary (Pagewood Lane at Fondren) a ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 18, 2010

    Chevron Phillips Settles Suit Over Pollution At Baytown Plant, No Thanks To TCEQ

    Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups did​After years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 11, 2010

    Deep Down

    Chevron-Phillips: The TCEQ wouldn't step in, so local groups did​After years of illegally emitting carcinogens and other toxic pollutants into the air, Chevron Phillips Chemical Company has agreed to a settle a lawsuit against it and clean up its Cedar Bayou plant in Baytown."We can all breathe ea ... More >>

  • News

    September 16, 2010

    Beauty School Dropouts

    HISD might close cosmetology program.

  • Blogs

    September 9, 2010

    Greenpeace Says Dow's Freeport Chemical Plant Has Lousy Security

    You won't be smiling when the leak comes​Think all those toxic chemicals stockpiled at industrial plants around Houston are safe and secure? Well, think again.According to Greenpeace, the giant holding tanks and railroad cars full full of hazardous materials are ripe for disaster -- be it by terro ... More >>

  • Blogs

    July 26, 2010

    Bugs: There Are Two States Actually Buggier Than Texas

    It's a bug's life in Texas​Houston, as you slap your arms, face and neck while trying to enjoy a sunset, reassure yourself that things could be worse: You could be in Florida or Louisiana.Those two states are officially and somewhat scientifically more bug-infested than Texas, according to an indu ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 17, 2010

    Fire At LyondellBasel Plant Won't Affect HISD

    Few details are available on the blaze right now​There's a smoky fire at the LyondellBasel plant southeast of town, and most educational experts that learning shouldn't take place next to a smoky fire at a chemical plant.As many as eight HISD schools could be affected by fumes, depending on which ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 21, 2010

    Bubble Wrap Wonderweek

    Pop, pop, pop music

  • News

    December 17, 2009

    A Quiet Hell

    Thanks to lax enforcement by TCEQ, plants along the Houston Ship Channel launch tons of toxic gases into our air, and face little penalty even when they exceed pollution limits over and over again.

  • Blogs

    December 16, 2009

    The State's Environmental Watchdog Sucks

    ​Four years ago, Houston Mayor Bill White and his environmental policy director Elena Marks didn't think that the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality was doing a very good job enforcing pollution violations and keeping the area's oil refineries and chemical plants in check. The city had ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 5, 2009

    Sunoco -- Doing Whatever It Takes In La Porte

    ​We have little understanding of how a local chemical manufacturing plant can flaunt state environmental regulations for an entire year and not get called on the carpet for it until nearly two years later, but that describes the goings-on at the Sunoco, Inc., plant in La Porte.At its facility jus ... More >>

  • Blogs

    June 24, 2009

    Dow Chemical, Always Helping The Kids. By Polluting The Air

    If you worry about pollution -- especially in light on the EPA's latest study of the cancer risk posed by air pollution -- you might see that instead of threatening our lives, air pollution actually helps all of us, especially those of us who are most vulnerable, the kids.For purposes of illustr ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 27, 2009

    Dow Chemical Thankful It's In A Pollution-Loving State Like Texas

    The Dow Chemical Co. got whacked last week with a $202,325 fine for air pollution violations, but if we had to guess, we'd say the world's second-largest chemical company thanks its lucky stars it does business in a state like Texas, where a history of violations doesn't mean much.In calculating th ... More >>

  • Blogs

    May 7, 2009

    More Help (The Hard Way) For Retrofitting School Buses In Brazoria County

    Solutia Inc. is a "small business" in the overall scheme of things in the petrochemical universe, but the organic chemical production plant outside of Alvin managed to outdo the big boys on Wednesday when it racked up the biggest pollution fine of the week in our great state.For its achievement, So ... More >>

  • Calendar

    April 23, 2009

    Two Tons Of Steel

    Solutia Inc. is a "small business" in the overall scheme of things in the petrochemical universe, but the organic chemical production plant outside of Alvin managed to outdo the big boys on Wednesday when it racked up the biggest pollution fine of the week in our great state.For its achievement, So ... More >>

  • Calendar

    February 26, 2009

    Junkyard Drive-In: Texas Oil on Film

    Aurora Picture Show re-creates watching movies from your car

  • Blogs

    January 29, 2009

    Oldies, And Not Goodies, On The Pollution Front

    The wheels of environmental justice move ever so slowly. To call it a snail's pace would be an insult to mollusks everywhere. But it is what is, as we say in the parlance of our times, so now we have the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality assessing penalties against two local polluters for ... More >>

  • Calendar

    January 15, 2009

    Arbor Day Celebration

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    December 11, 2008

    The "Golden" Triangle -- Pay No Attention To the Tons Of Pollutants

    In calculating the latest pollution fine levied against BASF Fina Petrochemicals LP in Jefferson County, state regulators made a note that might make residents of "The Golden Triangle" reconsider the nickname for their home.The Beaumont-Port Arthur area, documents say, has been exposed to 11.4 tons ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 26, 2008

    A Handy Guide To Terror Targets In Houston

    Sometimes it seems like organizations that want to protect Americans from terrorism end up doing all the terrorists' research for them. The Center for American Progress, a progressive think tank headed by John Podesta, formerly Bill Clinton's Chief of Staff, has compiled a handy guide to the nation' ... More >>

  • Blogs

    November 20, 2008

    Point Comfort Alcoa Plant May Close

    The Alcoa plant in Point Comfort, about 125 miles from here, is a pretty massive operation: It can produce up to 2.3 million metric tons a year of alumina, which is the stuff from which aluminum is made. Now it may be shutting down. An Australian newspaper (an Australian company partners with ... More >>

  • Calendar

    November 20, 2008

    Children’s Museum of Houston Thanksgiving

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    November 6, 2008

    Formosa Plant Keeps On Polluting

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    September 10, 2008

    Ike Brings On The Pollution

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    August 15, 2008

    The Bright Side Of Pollution

    Web exclusive!

  • Blogs

    August 1, 2008

    Port Arthur Shares The Polluting Load

    Web exclusive!

  • Calendar

    July 27, 2006

    Home Front

    Web exclusive!

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Radio News

    Web exclusive!

  • Best of Houston

    September 23, 2004

    Best Nonprofit

    Web exclusive!

  • Culture

    April 22, 2004

    Garden of Good and Evil

    Rachel Carson's environmental quest gets surreal at Main Street Theater

  • News

    April 22, 2004

    Carrying the Torch

    Rangers get fired up over Bush's Healthy Forests Initiative

  • Calendar

    January 9, 2003

    Bill Minutaglio

    Friday, January 10

  • Music

    August 1, 2002

    Keep On Truckin'

    Two Tons of Steel has gone from cover band to kings of the Texas dance hall

  • News

    April 18, 2002

    Going off the Rails

    A proposed line into the Bayport Industrial District has residents from Clear Lake to the East End vowing to stop the "toxic train" in its tracks

  • Best of Houston

    September 20, 2001

    Best Place to Take Out-of-Towners

    Fred Hartmann Bridge

  • News

    May 3, 2001

    Green Port?

    A Port suit accuses several companies of contaminating its land for decades

  • News

    December 28, 2000

    Fish Tales

    Rayburn's bass diminish as debates continue over pollution discharges

  • Music

    June 22, 2000

    Retro Active

    Two Tones of Steel

  • News

    December 17, 1998

    Letters

    Two Tones of Steel

  • News

    April 2, 1998

    First in the Nation

    Two Tones of Steel

  • News

    July 24, 1997

    Toxic Leak?

    Texas City petrochemical giants scramble to discover who released their secrets

  • News

    August 1, 1996

    Among Friends

    Buster Brown's financial disclosure includes an interesting omission -- and addition

  • News

    January 6, 1994

    The Poison Connection

    A "gas leak" in a Matamoros chemical plant wafts a poison and paper cloud toward a corporate office in Houston

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