Living with the proof of pollution
New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals. Residents are taking matters into their own hands.
The night I got caught in a Texas chemical release
Public Health Watch Reporter David Leffler tells about his late-night drive with community advocate Juan Flores as they searched for the source of a toxic leak.
Case closed?
A clean energy company that once operated at William Koch’s Oxbow plant in Port Arthur, Texas, claimed in a lawsuit that Oxbow manipulated sulfur dioxide emissions to avoid spending millions on pollution controls. Oxbow said it complies with the law.
Exposure: Pollution meets politics
The Oxbow plant in Port Arthur, Texas, continues to emit as much as lung-damaging sulfur dioxide as it did before the Clean Air Act was passed 51 years ago.
Fake loans and fire
After a fire left charred loan documents on a boardroom table, investigators unraveled a 10-year scheme to defraud the Enloe State Bank in prairie Delta County. “People were betrayed,” said Texas’s top banking official.
