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El Paso School Consolidation Exposes More Kids to Lead and Other Hazards,...
Hilda Villegas’ daughters Bernice and Katherine are grown now, but she still shudders when she thinks about their years at Frederick Douglass Elementary School in El Paso. The school is located next to...
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A New Study Shows that the Oil and Gas Industry is Wasting a Shocking...
A new study by researchers at the University of Southern California and San Francisco State University found that oil and gas operators in South Texas burned almost 160 billion cubic feet of natural...
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Dammed to Fail
Maria Campos wasn’t going to wait till the dam behind her house burst and washed away her home and her family. It was August 26, 2017, a Saturday, and Hurricane Harvey had parked itself over...
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How to use this map: You can sort dams by their condition — satisfactory, fair or poor — and whether they’re regulated by using the menu to the left of the map. Make sure you select criteria for...
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Texas Relaxed Environmental Enforcement During the Pandemic, State Data Show
This story was originally published by Grist. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ) is one of the largest and most influential environmental protection agencies in the country. With an...
View ArticleA Battle is Brewing Over a Trump EPA Official’s Confidential Emails
This story is co-published with Grist. Sign up for their daily newsletter, The Beacon. When the Trump administration tapped Michael Honeycutt to lead the Environmental Protection Agency’s Science...
View ArticleOne Texas-Sized Loophole is Letting Lone Star Polluters Off the Hook
This story is co-published with Grist. Sign up for their daily newsletter, The Beacon. Unauthorized pollution has become the norm in Texas. Every single day last year, at least one industrial facility...
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Why is Michael Bloomberg Giving $2.6 Million to Elect a Railroad Commissioner...
This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for their daily newsletter, The Beacon. Oil and gas companies burn off billions of cubic feet of natural gas into the atmosphere every year in...
View ArticleDying Oil Companies’ Parting Gift: Millions in Clean Up Costs
This story is co-published with Grist. When Weatherly Oil and Gas filed for bankruptcy in February 2019, the company was walking away from several hundred Texas wells. Many hadn’t produced a drop of...
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