Exxon Mobil: You Can’t Duck Reform!
This Thursday, CHEJ joined environmental health leaders, environmental justice organizers, and nurses from Alaska to Texas for a spirited rally outside of Exxon Mobil’s Houston corporate offices to...
View ArticleFaith-Based and Socially Responsible Investors Call on EPA to Strengthen PVC...
Investors urge EPA to protect environmental justice communities Washington, DC — Public pressure is mounting for the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to strengthen toxic air pollution standards at...
View ArticleAnalysis: West Fertilizer report details sequence of a catastrophe
How the West Fertilizer Co. fire began still isn’t known. But the probe has unveiled the detailed sequence of a catastrophe: Heat, pressure and shock made dual explosions, milliseconds apart, that...
View ArticleMajor release of previously well guarded chemicals used in hydraulic fracturing!
Making little more than a splash in the news a major hydraulic fracturing supplier, Baker Hughes, has announced it will be releasing a list of all the chemicals used in fracking. The news of the...
View ArticleRailroad Commission Sides With Driller on Well Protest
by Neena Satija and Jim Malewitz for the Texas Tribune The Railroad Commission on Thursday sided with Marathon Oil Company’s bid to dismiss a groundwater conservation district’s protest of its...
View ArticleBoom Meets Bust in Texas: Atop Sea of Oil, Poverty Digs In
GARDENDALE, Tex. — From the window of her tin-roofed trailer, Judy Vargas can glimpse a miraculous world. It is as close as the dust kicked up by the trucks barreling by but seems as distant as Mars....
View ArticleBanning Fracking in Texas
A small college town outside of Dallas, Texas called Denton has defied the odds by hydraulic fracking, in a region that has become one of the biggest fracking areas in the country. The ban came into...
View Article26 Earthquakes Later, Fracking’s Smoking Gun Is in Texas
After 11 quakes in the last two days – with one registering at a 3.6 – Irving, Texas’ sudden onset tremor problem might be the fracking industry’s nightmare. There’s a monster lurking under Texas,...
View ArticleTexas, Oklahoma Floodwaters Contain Sewage, Other Pollutants
Rains that have flooded portions of the middle part of the United States have damaged buildings, swept away cars and houses, and killed at least 18 people in Texas and Oklahoma. And with a chance of...
View ArticleEPA to Remove Dioxin-Laced Contamination from River in Houston
Congratulations to the San Jacinto River Coalition of Houston, Texas and residents who live near the San Jacinto Waste Pits Superfund Site for convincing the US Environmental Protection Agency...
View ArticleIs Drinking Water Safe in the United States?
by Summer-Solstice Thomas, CHEJ Science & Technology Intern In the small town of O’Brien, Texas, residents drank water that violated drinking water quality standards for months before one resident...
View Article37 Injured in Explosion, Fire at Baytown, Texas Exxon Mobile Plant
On Wednesday, for the fourth time since April, there was an explosion and subsequent fire at a Houston area petrochemical plant. No one was seriously injured, but 37 people suffered from minor burns...
View ArticleTropical Storm Imelda leads to a wake up call for the Texas chemical industry
The eastern coast of Texas has proven to be a vulnerable spot for natural disasters, tropical storms, and facility pollution. In the wake of tropical storm Imelda, the Houston and Baytown areas have...
View ArticlePort Neches, Texas: TPC explosion cleanup and update
Two weeks after the TPC plant explosion, the Environmental Protection Agency has transferred the site cleanup oversight to the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality (TCEQ). Response efforts have...
View ArticleTexas Doubles in Illegal Air Pollution
A report released Wednesday by Environment Texas revealed that Texas released 135 million pounds of illegal air pollution in 2018. Among the 270 oil and gas contributors, is Texas Petroleum Chemicals...
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Joppa, TX – Profile of a Sacrifice Zone
Photo credit: Nathan Hunsinger/The Dallas Morning News By Hunter Marion. Nestled between the slow, muddy waters of the Trinity River and the noisy I-45, sits Joppa, TX. Pronounced “Joppee” by locals,...
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Water is the New Black Gold
Photo credit: Robert Ingelhart/Getty Images By Sharon Franklin. A recent New York Times series concerning fracking and water by Hiroko Tabuchi and Blacki Migliozziexplores the relationship between...
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