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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
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Houston Matters

Texas City is a character in Sean Baker’s ‘Red Rocket’

Troy Schulze

Posted on December 21, 2021 · We talk with the director of an acclaimed new movie shot on location in the refinery environments of Texas City, Galveston, Port Arthur, and San Leon.

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Health & Science

Small plant, big polluter

Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch / Savanna Strott, Public Health Watch / David Leffler, Public Health Watch

Posted on November 2, 2021 · Thanks to a loophole in the Clean Air Act, William Koch’s Oxbow plant in Port Arthur, Texas, puts out 10 times as much lung-damaging sulfur dioxide as its industrial neighbors. People who live nearby have asked the state for help, to no avail.

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Energy & Environment

Port Arthur Residents Call For Civil Rights Probe Into How Texas Has Handled Air Pollution In Their Neighborhood

Katie Watkins

Posted on August 18, 2021 · In a petition to the EPA, residents allege Texas has failed to adequately address sulfur dioxide emissions from the Oxbow Calcining plant, impacting the predominantly low income, black neighborhood.

Tags air pollution civil rights epa Port Arthur tceq

Hurricane Laura

PHOTOS: Some Damage, But Mostly Relief As Hurricane Laura Passes Through Texas

Lucio Vasquez

Posted on August 27, 2020 · The Category 4 storm had threatened the Texas-Louisiana coast all week. But the storm spared Greater Houston and most of Southeast Texas after its last-minute turn east.

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Hurricane Laura

Hurricane Laura Is Forcing Texans To Evacuate. But Some Say They Can’t Afford To Leave

Lucio Vasquez / Elizabeth Trovall / Paul DeBenedetto

Posted on August 26, 2020 · Local officials in Texas and Louisiana have asked hundreds of thousands of people to evacuate as Hurricane Laura headed for the Gulf Coast. But some residents say they can't afford to leave.

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Hurricane Laura

Laura Now Forecast To Be A Catastrophic Category 4 Hurricane

Jeff Martin, AP / John Mone, AP

Posted on August 26, 2020 · The National Hurricane Center says Laura's top sustained winds are near 115 mph with higher gusts.

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Houston Matters

How Texas Shaped Janis Joplin And Her Music

Michael Hagerty

Posted on January 10, 2020 · Holly George-Warren offers an unprecedented look at the rock icon in her new biography.

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News

Temporary Dump In Storm-Ravaged Port Arthur Has Been Closed

Associated Press

Posted on November 1, 2017 · City of Port Arthur spokeswoman Risa Carpenter says the site was closed Sunday as contractors finished their first sweep of ruined furniture and appliances left curbside in the Gulf Coast city.

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Below the Waterlines: Houston After Hurricane Harvey
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U.S. Senate approves “Ike Dike” plan to protect Houston area from hurricanes

Ariel Worthy

Posted on July 28, 2022 · Gates would be built across the coast of Galveston Bay and moved into place before hurricanes hit to block water from going up the Houston Ship Channel and flooding homes. 

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Energy & Environment

A massive wind farm project is being proposed along the coast of Galveston

Ashley Brown

Posted on July 22, 2022 · The area covers 546,645 acres, which could produce enough energy to power 2.3 million homes.

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Texas

The new Juneteenth federal holiday traces its roots to Galveston, Texas

John Burnett, NPR

Posted on June 20, 2022 · Union Gen. Gordon Granger set up his headquarters in Galveston, Texas, and famously signed an order June 19, 1865, "All slaves are free." President Biden made Juneteenth a federal holiday last year.

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Town Square

LIVE from historical Ashton Villa in Galveston, Texas – the birthplace of Juneteenth

Lisa Rosborough

Posted on June 17, 2022 · Today, we're on location where African Americans were officially declared free from slavery on June 19, 1865. Our conversation reflects on a time of celebration, while learning the history and the deeper meaning of the Juneteenth holiday itself.

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