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Energy & Environment

Port Arthur pollution fight shows how Texas blocks citizen protests

Amal Ahmed, Floodlight, Texas Tribune

Posted on November 3, 2022 · A local activist went before a judge, arguing for lower pollution limits on two new liquified natural gas facilities. The judge sided with him, but the state environmental agency sided with the companies.

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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 / 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 L. MONE, AP

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

Tags beaumont galveston hurricane hurricane laura Louisiana Port Arthur storm

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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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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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Advocates call for creative solutions as Houston region fails to meet decade-old federal ozone standards

Katie Watkins

Posted on November 17, 2022 · Ozone pollution can irritate and inflame the lungs, making it harder to breathe. It’s especially harmful to people with lung diseases such as asthma.

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Community members push back against proposed Carverdale landfill expansion

Lucio Vasquez

Posted on June 29, 2022 · More than 100 people met with state environmental regulators Tuesday night, many of whom spoke out against the expansion of the Hawthorne Landfill.

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Texas’ environmental agency says Sunset Review recommendations would create a burden for the agency

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Posted on June 23, 2022 · The Sunset Commission outlined several recommendations regarding the TCEQ's public perception and its perceived lack of transparency. 

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Fifth Ward residents call on Union Pacific to do more to clean up the toxic contamination in their neighborhood

Katie Watkins

Posted on May 4, 2022 · State health officials have found higher than normal cancer rates in the area for both adults and children.

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