Susan Carroll

State health officials took an unprecedented step on Friday in announcing plans for further study of cancer in eastern Harris County after a cluster investigation identified pockets of elevated...

An expert panel convened by Texas health officials has recommended against conducting an in-depth study of clusters of rare childhood cancers near the polluted San Jacinto River, saying there were...

JACKSONVILLE – Charles Bolchoz called the owners of T2 laboratories at 1:23 p.m. on a Wednesday. The cooling jacket on a 2,450-gallon reactor wasn’t working, he told them. The temperature inside was over 360 degrees Fahrenheit and climbing. T2, a chemical manufacturing company with 12 employees, was co-founded by a chemical engineer and a chemist. That December day in 2007, they were making their 175th batch of a fuel additive known as MCMT. One of the owners, Mike Wyatt, searched for the plant’…

Early on a Saturday morning, deep inside a chemical plant in La Porte, Javier Ortiz took his last sip of coffee. Paramedics tried to load him onto a helicopter, but he refused until they let him call his wife. [...] the one agency with a specific mandate to investigate chemical accidents that result “in a fatality, serious injury, or substantial property damages” did not send anyone to La Porte. Much like the National Transportation Safety Board, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board’s mission is to fi…

For years, one family was repeatedly denied access to special education. Then they moved to Pennsylvania.

Nearly a week after the mosque caught fire – the cause of which remains unknown –...

He walked back to the grave and kissed two of his fingers. Then he touched her photo on...

This story published online Thursday, Dec. 7 and appeared in print Saturday, Dec. 9. Inside a squat, brick building at the base of Barker reservoir, Richard Long tossed and turned in his cot near midnight. Dread and adrenaline kept him from drifting off. Water levels at the Addicks and Barker dams west of Houston, the city’s primary defense during a major storm, were rising faster than he’d seen in his 38 years with the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers. Addicks had climbed 28 feet since Hurricane Ha…

About 400 trucks a day loaded with hazardous chemicals pass within a mile of densely populated areas, the Houston Chronicle has found.

Note: This article was originally published in 2016. The Texas Department of Public...