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On Thursday’s Houston Matters: Why Pres. Joe Biden is pausing oil and gas leases on federal lands and waters.
Also this hour: In the past two years, half a dozen chemical disasters have ripped apart Texas neighborhoods, sent dozens of people to the hospital and killed unsuspecting bystanders as well as workers. Texas Public Radio and Houston Public Media spent the better part of 2020 investigating these events to answer the question: why do so many chemical disasters keep happening in Texas, and what — if anything — is being done to prevent more? We learn more about the resulting four-part podcast series Fire Triangle.
Then, in the latest edition of our film segment The Bigger Picture, we examine the toll the pandemic can take on relationships as depicted in the movie Locked Down.
And a young girl comes to terms with the secrets of her deeply-religious family in a new novel set in 1970s Pasadena called From the Moon I Watched Her by Houstonian Emily English Medley.
