June 14, 2019
Stories tagged "Texas"
May 12, 2019
One Wild Thing: The Rio Grande River
A new documentary that premiered last week doubles as both a gorgeous nature film giving the public a rare, up-close view of the rugged landscape along the 1200-mile US-Mexico border spanning the state of Texas, as well as a political film about the tragic harms to...April 3, 2019
Texas chemical explosion kills worker, 3rd plant explosion in 3 weeks
Yesterday in Crosby, Texas (about 25 miles northeast of Houston) a tank holding a flammable chemical caught fire at a KMCO chemical plant, killing one worker, critically injuring two others and sending panicked employees fleeing over a fence to safety. This was the...March 26, 2019
Deer Park residents on edge after officials failed to warn them about petrochem fire health hazards
Last week after a chemical explosion in Deer Park, Texas sent a plume of black smoke into the air, officials assured residents that the city had things under control. Over the weekend, however, a shelter-in-place order was issued for Deer Park residents due to...March 20, 2019
Houston petrochem fire spews millions of pounds of pollutants into the air
A fire that erupted Sunday afternoon at the Intercontinental Terminals Company’s (ITC) petrochemical facility in Houston, TX is still burning and isn’t expected to be extinguished for two more days. As Grist reported yesterday, self-reported emissions data...February 25, 2019
Don’t mess with Texas solar
A recent analysis by PV Magazine has revealed that the Electric Reliability Council of Texas (which operates most of the state’s electric grid) has had applications for an additional 165 GWac of solar energy to be built in Texas. While Texas has been the...February 21, 2019
Toxic coal ash poisoning Texas groundwater at 100% of power plants
Coal ash is an incredibly toxic byproduct of coal-derived energy that activists have pushed for years for regulators to address and are now finally having success. Water contamination from coal ash ponds (the pits where the sludge is stored) is widespread and...February 14, 2019