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US Petrochemical Plants Send Millions of Pounds of Pollutants Into Waterways
There are currently no EPA limits set for these contaminants in effluent water guidelines for the plastics industry.
Some States With Abortion Bans Stand in the Way of Measuring Their Consequences
Texas legally prohibits its maternal mortality review committee from reviewing deaths considered abortion-related.
A Texas Town Faced Dangerous Benzene Fumes. Regulators Never Told Residents.
The levels exceed even Texas’s benzene guidelines — the weakest in the nation — but aren’t being recorded by monitors.
Christian Nationalists Are Reshaping Texas’s Public School Curricula
The Texas State Board of Education will pay districts $60 a student to use a curriculum infused with Christian content.
Texas AG Sues New York Doctor, Putting Abortion Provider Shield Laws to the Test
This lawsuit is the first attempt to test what happens when state abortion laws are at odds with each other.
Report: Louisiana LNG Operators Set to Receive Over $21 Billion in Tax Breaks
If all the planned terminals in Texas and Louisiana open, they would reverse nearly a third of US emissions reductions.
Inside Christian Nationalists’ Legal Long Game to End Church-State Separation
Christian nationalists have made inroads in Texas with their push to eliminate the separation between church and state.
Porsha Ngumezi Died Under TX Abortion Ban After Riskier Miscarriage Treatment
Under the ban, doctors are pressured to reach for less effective options that could expose patients to more risks.
TX Republicans Introduced 32 Anti-Trans Bills on First Day of Pre-Filing Period
The bills filed target transgender people in nearly every aspect of their lives.
Not Everyone Can Leave: Survival Advice From Trans Teens in Texas
Media often focus on trans teens fleeing the anti-trans states they’re living in. But what about those who can’t leave?