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Houston’s Mayor Asks EPA to Probe Contaminants at Rail Site Associated With Nearby Cancer Clusters

Sylvester Turner’s request comes after Texas health officials found elevated incidences of leukemia and numerous cancers in the city’s predominantly Black Fifth Ward.

By Aman Azhar

Houston's skyline, as seen from a railroad yard on the city's perimeter. Credit: Loren Elliott/ AFP via Getty Images.
Remote sensing of methane from high altitude aircraft reveals plumes of the gas coming from the open face, on the left, and from a vent, on the right, at the River Birch landfill outside New Orleans in April 2021. Researchers from the University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, and Carbon Mapper calculate the rate of methane venting at approximately 2,000 kilograms per hour, which would be 48 metric tons per day. Credit: University of Arizona, Arizona State University, NASA JPL and Carbon Mapper.

EPA Struggles to Track Methane Emissions From Landfills. Here’s Why It Matters

By James Bruggers, Amy Green, Phil McKenna, and Robert Benincasa

The twin towers of the coker at the sprawling Limetree Bay refinery in St. Croix. Since February when the refinery restarted after an eight-year hiatus, problems with the coker and other processing units have created massive amounts of pressure inside the refinery, causing flares of oil and toxic emissions that have sickened downwind neighbors within seven miles. Credit: Patricia Borns

As Harsh Financial Realities Emerge, St. Croix’s Limetree Bay Refinery Could Be Facing Bankruptcy

By Kristoffer Tigue

Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Win McNamee/Getty Images

Trump EPA’s ‘Secret Science’ Rule Would Dismiss Studies That Could Hold Clues to Covid-19

By Marianne Lavelle

Andrew Wheeler. Credit: Drew Angerer/Getty Images

Trump’s EPA Fast-Tracks a Controversial Rule That Would Restrict the Use of Health Science

By Marianne Lavelle

In this March 2018 photo, smoke and benzene billow from a fire at a refinery near La Porte, Texas. Credit: Paul Harris/Getty Images

Benzene Emissions on the Perimeters of Ten Refineries Exceed EPA Limits

By Neela Banerjee

EPA Administrator Gina McCarthy

EPA: We're Throwing a Lifeline to Coal

By John H. Cushman Jr.

Climate change protest February 2013 in Washington, D.C.

EPA Deems Keystone Review ‘Insufficient’

By John H. Cushman Jr.

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson speaks at the GreenGov Symposium in September 201

Obama's Picks for EPA, DOE Key to His Legacy

By Jason Plautz

Sign advertising a 'Stop the War On Coal' rally in Franklin, Pa.

Obama's War on Coal: True or False?

By Jason Plautz

Aerial view of the Morrow Lake Delta of the Kalamazoo River, still closed as a r

Kalamazoo Reopens, Oil Remains

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

The Robert W. Scherer Power Plant near Macon, Ga., is the nation's largest singl

Obama: 'Yes' to Tar Sands, 'No' to Coal?

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

Houston petroleum refineries

GHG Rules for Oil Refineries on Hold

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

U.S. Steel's Gary Works industrial power plant in Gary, Indiana

Map: Most Toxic Industrial Boilers

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

EPA's Analysis of Keystone Review Coming Soon

By Elizabeth McGowan, InsideClimate News

EPA Administrator Lisa Jackson

EPA's GHG Program: Deadline Missed

By Reuters

TransCanada's Keystone I oil pipeline contruction in North Dakota in 2010

Oil Pipeline Clears a Major Obstacle

By Timothy Gardner and Ayesha Roscoe, Reuters

Grand Canyone haze

EPA's Coal Haze Deal Nears Final OK

By Elizabeth McGowan, SolveClimate News

JT Deely coal station

Texas Utility to Shut Coal, Add Renewables

By Eileen O'Grady, Reuters

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