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A new report analyzing data gathered by the TECQ finds the drop stemmed largely from the pandemic-related downturn in the oil, gas and petrochemical industries. Rising production in 2021 is already leading to a comparable rise in illegal pollution. -
Dust blown all the way from Africa’s Saharan Desert is arriving this week in Texas, which happens every year around this time.
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Lee esta historia en español. As COVID-19 spread across the globe in the spring, people noticed a strange side-effect of the pandemic: The air was getting…
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Austin’s air was more polluted with toxic particles than ever before in the period from 2016 through 2018, according to the American Lung Association. The…
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Texas is suing Exxon Mobil for alleged environmental violations following a fire that broke out last week at one of the company's Houston-area plants.The…
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Kristin Crump and her two kids put damp cloths over their mouths on Thursday for the short walk from their suburban Houston front door to their car,…
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Residents near a petrochemical storage terminal in the Houston suburb of Deer Park were warned to shelter in place for several hours on Thursday after…
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A fire that broke out at a petrochemical storage facility over the weekend in the industrial Houston suburb of Deer Park has been extinguished, the…
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Authorities say a plume of pitch-black smoke from a fire at a Houston-area petrochemicals terminal is traveling thousands of feet into the atmosphere and…
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Chemicals detected from a fire at a Deep Park petrochemical storage facility do not represent a public health concern, according to the company that owns…
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