A submerged industrial waste pit that has been contaminating the San Jacinto River, Ship Channel and Galveston Bay with dioxin for decades was put on the short list of potential Superfund sites. State ...

The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) is determining the next steps for the design of the northern pits cleanup at the San Jacinto River. According to a Houston-based organization, Texas Health ...

The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency has extended for three months the time two companies responsible for cleaning up dangerous toxins in the San Jacinto River have to submit a revised mitigation ...

For Pam, the waste pits explained why so many of her old neighbors were sick. Her family was one of many who moved after the pits came to light, but she and Jackie still drive back to Highlands every ...

In June, Congressman Gene Green sent a letter to the chair of the EPA National Remedy Review calling for the complete removal of dioxin waste from impacted areas of the San Jacinto River, deeming it a ...

CHANNELVIEW, Texas – The San Jacinto River flows through Channelview, and its currents bring in fish, ships, and, unfortunately, even toxins. In 2008, the EPA classified two waste pits in the San ...

East of Houston’s city limits, a battered Interstate 10 bridge soars over a narrow point in the San Jacinto River, slicing across the peninsula that houses two waste pits where toxic sludge was dumped ...