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Tag: Environmental justice

Podcast Episode 26: Don’t eat the toxic fish

A Little Louder, Local issues•by •Posted March 6, 2020

For decades, federal, state and local officials knew that the fish in Donna Lake in the Rio Grande Valley carried…

Tags: ARISE, Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Environmental racism, EPA, Rio Grande Valley

Cleanup of Donna Lake to officially commence in March, due to pressure from ARISE, LUPE, and local allies

Local issues, State issues•by Michael Depland•Posted February 19, 2020

Texas Housers has worked for years in the Rio Grande Valley, partnering with motivated organizations like LUPE and ARISE, to…

Tags: Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley

Podcast Episode 22: Creosote in the Greater Fifth Ward

A Little Louder, Local issues, Studies•by •Posted January 10, 2020

The Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens areas of Houston are historic Black neighborhoods where families have proudly planted roots for…

Tags: Environmental justice, Fifth Ward, Houston, Podcast

Episode 21: The Stink Of Unequal Sewage

A Little Louder, Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted December 9, 2019

Housing inequality can often manifest in ways that many do not think of and some take for granted. For example,…

Tags: A Little Louder, Environmental justice, Sewage

Texas’ Health Department study officially confirms cancer cluster exists in Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens

Local issues•by Sophie Dulberg•Posted December 6, 2019

In August 2019, the Texas Department of State Health Services discovered what many residents of Fifth Ward and Kashmere Gardens in…

Tags: Creosote, Environmental justice, Houston

TxDOT’S Historical Resources Report Omits Houston’s Independence Heights

Local issues, State issues, Studies•by •Posted June 24, 2019

For more than 14 years, Texas Department of Transportation (TxDOT) has been planning the North Houston Highway Improvement Project (NHHIP),…

Tags: Environmental justice, Houston, txdot

Lessons learned from a rapid response to the ITC Disaster

Activities, Local issues, State issues•by •Posted March 29, 2019

Following the breaking news of the ITC disaster, SE Texas Co-Director Zoe Middleton joined a rapid response team of advocates…

Tags: Deer Park Fire, Environmental justice, ITC Fire

Black and Latino residents live in more pollution than they cause. This is clearer in Houston more than anywhere else.

Local issues, National issues, Studies•by Sophie Dulberg•Posted March 21, 2019

Early in March, a team of professors and researchers from universities nationwide published a study in Proceedings of the National…

Tags: Environmental justice, Environmental racism, Houston

East Lubbock residents will become citizen scientists in their fight for equal air

A Little Louder•by •Posted March 1, 2019

In episode five of our podcast, A Little Louder, we discuss a proposed military base tenant bill of rights and…

Tags: Environmental justice, Environmental racism, Fair housing, Lubbock

EPA unveils plan to address decades of poison and toxic fish in Donna Lake; public input accepted through June 5

Activities, Local issues•by •Posted May 22, 2018

This article originally ran on Neta, a bilingual multimedia platform based in the Rio Grande Valley where I am a staff content creator,…

Tags: City of Alamo, city of donna, Donna Lake, Environmental justice, EPA, Rio Grande Valley, superfund site

Rio Grande Valley youth one step closer in their campaign to “stop the smell”

Local issues•by •Posted September 22, 2017

Above: Leaders of the South Tower Power campaign at the City of Alamo Wastewater Treatment Plant. A Rio Grande Valley…

Tags: City of Alamo, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley, South Tower Power

One hundred years of poison: Why toxic fish still threaten Rio Grande Valley residents

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted May 17, 2017

This article originally ran on Neta, a bilingual multimedia platform based in the Rio Grande Valley where I am a…

Tags: Colonias, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley

EPA summit a chance to highlight environmental injustices in colonias

State issues•by •Posted August 22, 2016

Environmental problems predominantly affect low income communities of color, especially in Texas. There is a growing movement of community collaboration,…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Environmental justice, EPA

Where you live matters: Assessing unequal access to healthy environments

Local issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted July 7, 2016

[The following is adapted from a presentation to the National Fair Housing Alliance‘s national conference on June 27, 2016.] Where…

Tags: Environmental justice, Fair housing

State to hold public hearing on colonia environmental injustice thanks to youth leaders

Local issues•by •Posted June 14, 2016

Youth activists in the Rio Grande Valley have already won increased resources and attention to address the odor nuisance caused…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley, South Tower Power

Colonia youth take charge to protect neighbors from contamination

Local issues, Uncategorized•by •Posted May 4, 2016

As discussed in our staff conversation last week, there has been a shameful lack of government oversight around the toxic contamination of…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Donna Lake, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley

Listen: Shining a light on environmental injustice in the colonias

Local issues•by •Posted April 29, 2016

TxLIHIS staff members work on a wide range of issues across the state. To highlight some of that work, I’ll…

Tags: ARISE, Colonias, Environmental justice, Rio Grande Valley

EPA hears testimony on civil rights and environmental injustice in Houston

Uncategorized•by •Posted January 13, 2016

On January 12, Texas Housers Houston co-director Chrishelle Palay testified (pictured above) at an Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) public listening…

Tags: CES, Environmental justice, EPA, Houston

Groundbreaking civil rights agreement is ‘bittersweet’ for residents of historic Corpus Christi community

Local issues•by •Posted December 30, 2015

If the residents of Corpus Christi’s Northside are not jumping with joy after winning a first-of-its-kind, multimillion dollar buyout agreement, it’s understandable.…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Harbor Bridge, Hillcrest

Justice in Corpus Christi: Residents of segregated neighborhood win historic civil rights agreement

Local issues•by •Posted December 28, 2015

A first-of-its-kind civil rights, fair housing and environmental justice agreement has been reached in Corpus Christi, Texas, in response to…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Harbor Bridge

Register now for webinar access to next week’s federal fair housing conference

National issues•by •Posted August 27, 2015

Our co-director John Henneberger is a featured speaker at next week’s National Fair Housing Policy and Training Conference, organized by…

Tags: Environmental justice, Fair housing, HUD

Watch our short documentary on housing and environmental injustice in Corpus Christi

Local issues•by •Posted August 10, 2015

  Corpus Christi’s historic African-American neighborhoods of Hillcrest and Washington-Coles have endured decades of injustice: Redlining and housing segregation, industrial…

Tags: Civil rights, Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Hillcrest, Northside, Redlining, segregation, Texas Department of Transportation

The story behind the Harbor Bridge: Segregation, neglect and pollution in Corpus Christi

Uncategorized•by •Posted August 7, 2015

This report was written in collaboration with Colin Cox and Thomas Dannehy, interns with Texas RioGrande Legal Aid. Cox and Dannehy…

Tags: Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Harbor Bridge, Hillcrest, racial segregation

Why Corpus Christi’s Northside neighborhoods matter

Local issues, State issues•by •Posted August 3, 2015

I moved to Corpus Christi in 2009 to study Environmental Science at Texas A&M University-Corpus Christi. Moving from El Paso, I…

Tags: Corpus Christi, Environmental justice, Fair housing, Hillcrest, racial segregation, segregation

Join us for a webinar on mapping in fair housing and environmental justice

National issues•by •Posted May 20, 2015

On Wednesday, May 27, our co-director John Henneberger and fair housing planner Charlie Duncan will participate in a Mapchat, the…

Tags: Environmental justice, Houston, Mapping
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