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Six States Join TransCanada To Sue Obama Over Rejection Of The Keystone XL...
Six states have joined with TransCanada to sue the Obama administration over its rejection of the Keystone XL pipeline permit application. TransCanada filed the suit in a federal court in Houston in...
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Texas Bigots Take Their Religious Anti-Transgender Campaign National
Last fall, conservatives used anti-transgender scare tactics to convince the voters of Houston to defeat an ordinance that created nondiscrimination protections for the LGBT community. Now, those Texas...
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Houston residents breathe in toxic fumes as petrochemical facilities cope...
Officials in the city of Houston, known as the energy capital of the United States, are closely monitoring the region’s oil and gas infrastructure as floodwaters from tropical storm Harvey show no...
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Massive levee failure near Houston exposes danger of crumbling infrastructure
Government officials have been talking for years about the urgent need to upgrade America’s old and crumbling infrastructure. In many parts of the country, though, infrastructure investment has been...
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EPA has still yet to inspect nearly a dozen Houston-area hazardous waste sites
The Environmental Protection has been unable to inspect many of the contaminated hazardous waste sites in Texas flooded by Hurricane Harvey, even as kids have reportedly been swimming in waters that...
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Houston faces class action lawsuit from sexual assault victims
Current and former Houston officials are facing a class action lawsuit from sexual assault victims who said the delay in testing their rape kits damaged their cases. A plaintiff, Dejenay Beckwith, said...
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Armed, angry men were tricked into converging on Houston, and no one knows...
In June, hundreds of heavily armed, suited-up men appeared in Houston’s Hermann Park. They arrived from across the state, lugging their AR-15s and Dixie insignia, ready to shut down a planned protest...
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Oil and gas industry panel on extreme hurricanes never once mentions climate...
Everyone sitting on an oil and gas panel discussing last year’s devastating storms and how to prepare for future natural disasters could agree on one thing: Hurricane Harvey was unlike any other event...
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Texas official thinks the mistake in his racist attack on a black quarterback...
On Sunday afternoon, after a frustrating Houston Texans loss to the Tennessee Titans, school superintendent Lynn Redden laid bare his racism in the comments of the Houston Chronicle’s Facebook page....
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Democratic candidates address women of color, vow to fight for racial justice
HOUSTON — Some 2,000 women, almost all of them women of color, gathered here Wednesday for the “She the People” forum, where they pressed Democrats running for president on how they propose to help...
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