Rebekah F. Ward

The Environmental Protection Agency released dozens of energy industry-focused promises to reevaluate both pollution standards and frameworks for climate policy

Police arrested eight protesters accused of blocking a street near CERAWeek, an annual energy conference in Houston that draws global oil and gas leaders

Bird lungs filled with dangerous levels of microplastics and nanoplastics suggest human health is also at risk.

The zone north of Union Pacific's rail yard, once home to a toxic open-air wood preserving operation, had slightly elevated dioxins and benzo(a)pyrene chemicals

East Harris County has elevated levels of cervix uteri, leukemia, lung and bronchus, and lymphoma cancers, the Texas Department of State Health Services says.

Now-buried draft recommendations from the TCEQ flagged pollution violations in Harris County, along with Dallas, Bowie and Tarrant. 

The Houston Zoo's menagerie weathered the city's snowiest day since 1973 with help from 66 staff members who stayed in its confines overnight.

Residents worry over new risks from the I-10 bridge construction, now likely to happen alongside remediation of the San Jacinto River waste pits Superfund site.

Methane is a more potent climate-warming gas than carbon dioxide. Federal data undercounts its emissions from landfills.

City council selected contractor MC2 Civil to build a $68 million stormwater pump station that would combat rising water levels which jeopardize Galveston