Request that could lead to reforms of rules overseeing recycling facilities advances to City of San Antonio Governance Committee on March 20.
Tag: pollution
How Some of the Biggest Texas Polluters Keep Skirting Federal Environmental Laws
Industrial developers describe facilities as “minor” polluters to avoid federal permitting requirements, and environmental lawyers say the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality lets it happen.
Gulf Coast Activist Diane Wilson Seeks to Hold Formosa Accountable for Toxic Spill in Vietnam
Goldman Environmental Prize-winning activist and fourth-generation fisherman Diane Wilson cites jailing and mistreatment of those seeking justice for the devastation of coastal fisheries in launching the solidarity Global Hunger Strike.
Welcome to Total’s ‘Petro City’: Arlington, Texas
In this heavily drilled North Texas city, a UK-based investigative reporter finds echoes of TotalEnergie’s oil exploitation of Nigeria, Iraq, and Kurdistan.
Laredo Medical Equipment Plant Spewing Cancer-Causing Pollution on Schoolchildren
Nobody told Yaneli Ortiz’s family that the factory they lived near emitted ethylene oxide. Not when the EPA found it causes cancer. Not when she was diagnosed with leukemia.
VIDEO: Save San Antonio’s Coal Plants
‘Dirty’ Deely announces retirement at San Antonio Earth Day 2018. But pleads: “It’s not too late to save my little brother and sister!” San Antonio coal plant “Dirty” Deely made an unexpected appearance at Earth Day San Antonio this year. The sooty mass of cancer-causing smog was received warmly by […]
San Antonio’s Top 15 Toxic Polluters
oal ash heaps. Toxic groundwater plumes. Waste pits and burning flares. San Antonio’s air, land, and waters are marred by permitted pollution—typically self-reported, under-regulated, and (surprise, surprise) under-counted.
Deceleration Mapping Hurricane Harvey’s Toxic Releases
The storm may have passed, but the damages are starting to be understood. Greg Harman Though the more obvious violence of Hurricane Harvey may be passed, residents of Southeast Texas and Louisiana continue to face threats from the storm’s aftermath. One of those very real threats comes from toxic […]