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Tag: Environmental racism

The Hillcrest neighborhood fought racist highway development to preserve its history. Now its residents are telling their story.

Local issues, State issues•by Texas Housers Staff•Posted May 3, 2021

In Corpus Christi, the Hillcrest neighborhood has hosted generations of families who have built community and created history for more…

Tags: Environmental racism, Hillcrest, txdot

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

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

Looking for environmental hazards and air polluters in Houston? Just find a low income Black or Hispanic neighborhood.

Local issues•by John Henneberger•Posted November 26, 2013

We mapped industrial hazardous waste sites and EPA sources of air pollution in the Houston metro area and guess what…

Tags: Environmental racism, Houston

Texas can act now to prevent the next industrial disaster in Port Arthur and Texas City

State issues•by John Henneberger•Posted April 21, 2013

Bill Minutaglio, a professor of journalism at the University of Texas, Austin, the author of “City on Fire: The Explosion…

Tags: Disaster recovery, Environmental racism, Industrial disasters, Port Arthur, Texas City, Texas General Land Office, United States Department of Housing and Urban Development, West
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