by Salina Arredondo | Dec 31, 2025 | Air Pollution, benzene, Emissions, News Analysis, Petrochemical Industry, petrochemicals, Pollution, Public Health, Regulation, superfund site, Texas, toxic chemicals
SAN JACINTO RIVER, Texas — Over the past 30 years, federal and state agencies in Texas have allowed hundreds of oil and chemical barges to amass in a once-tranquil section of the San Jacinto River, just east of Houston. Only about 100 barges were on the six-mile stretch of water in 1990, according to a Public Health Watch analysis of archival satellite imagery. Today, at least 600 crowd the…
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by C.J. Polychroniou | Dec 20, 2025 | Air Pollution, Climate Change, Climate Crisis, Environmental Racism, EPA, Fossil Fuels, Greenhouse Gas Emissions, Interview, Pollution, Trump Administration
Since 2010, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has required large industrial facilities to report their greenhouse gas emissions. The data, which the EPA’s Greenhouse Gas Reporting Program has been collecting since 2011, is essential in efforts to reduce emissions and provides vital information to the public about climate pollution from the largest U.S. polluters. However, the Trump EPA has…
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