Featured Harris County seeks accounting for decades of pollution (Neena Satija – The Texas Tribune, 10/16/2014) Laced with the poisons of many years of industrial activity, waterways around Houston are considered toxic enough that adults are cautioned not to eat more than 8 ounces of fish or blue crabs taken from them. Pregnant women and children are warned to eat…
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Featured With huge damages at stake, trial over waste pits to begin (Matthew Tresaugue–Houston Chronicle, 10/5/2014) A half-century ago, the owner and operator of a Pasadena paper mill sent its waste for burial to a site along the San Jacinto River. The black bisque of cancer-causing chemicals eventually leaked from the pits, turning these murky waters into one of the…