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Energy & Environment

After Years Of Delays, EPA Says Clean-up Of Toxic San Jacinto Waste Pits Slated To Start In 2022

Posted on September 15, 2021 · The pits were built in the 1960s to store hazardous waste from a nearby paper mill and have been on the EPA’s clean-up list since 2008.

Dwight Chandler walks through his devastated home in Highlands, Texas on Thursday, Aug. 31, 2017. Chandler, 62, said he worried whether Harvey's floodwaters had also washed in pollution from the old acid pits that were designated as a U.S. EPA Superfund site just a couple blocks from his home. The Highlands Acid Pit site near Chandler's home was filled in the 1950s with toxic sludge and sulfuric acid from oil and gas operations.

Hurricane Harvey

Houston Area Toxic Waste Sites Flooded; EPA Not On Scene

Posted on September 2, 2017 · Many of Houston's Superfund sites are now flooded, with the risk that waters were stirring dangerous sediment.

Energy & Environment

Tons Of Coal Waste In Texas But EPA’s New Regulation Lacks Weight

Posted on January 22, 2016 · New, controversial federal rules are aimed at reducing the danger from millions of tons of waste generated by power plants.

Politics

Supreme Court restricts the EPA’s authority to mandate carbon emissions

Posted on June 30, 2022 · The U.S. Supreme Court, in a 6-3 decision, ruled that the Environmental Protection Agency does not have the authority to mandate carbon emissions from existing power plants.

Houston Matters

Benzene pollution, and presidential portrait history (May 13, 2022)

Posted on May 13, 2022 · On Friday's show: Excess pollution at local refineries, the Obama portraits, and blending classical music and hip hop.

Energy & Environment

Cleanup of the San Jacinto Waste Pits must continue as planned, EPA says

Posted on April 18, 2022 · The waste pits were built in east Harris County on the San Jacinto River in the 1960s to store hazardous waste from a nearby paper mill.

Energy & Environment

Cleanup of the toxic San Jacinto waste pits faces another potential delay, frustrating residents

Posted on April 15, 2022 · The waste pits were built in the 1960s to store hazardous waste from a nearby paper mill and contain dioxins, a group of chemicals known to cause cancer. Community advocates have been fighting for their cleanup for years.

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Energy & Environment

After Years Of Delays, EPA Says Clean-up Of Toxic San Jacinto Waste Pits Slated To Start In 2022

Hurricane Harvey

Houston Area Toxic Waste Sites Flooded; EPA Not On Scene

Energy & Environment

Tons Of Coal Waste In Texas But EPA’s New Regulation Lacks Weight

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