Rebekah Ward
Climate and Environment Reporter at Houston Chronicle
Covering climate & environment for the @HoustonChron, tips to [email protected]. Recent: @TimesUnion @France24_es @OCCRP @THECITYNY @Reuters
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1 week ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Rebekah Ward
For 20 years, a four-story mound of dirt hasoverlooked Sunnyside near a bend in Sims Bayou, piled high with earth that the Harris County Flood Control District dug out to create a nearby floodwater detention basin. The site was never designed for public use. Now, the peak is surrounded by work trucks carting dirt and laying pathway reinforcements to turn it into a new park. Article continues below this ad"We don't generally have 60-foot-tall hills anywhere in Houston.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Rebekah Ward
A Harris County resolution Thursday called on the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency to "remove the San Jacinto Waste Pits immediately," after a Texas Department of State Health Services study found elevated cancer rates near a large swath of the San Jacinto River from Atascocita to La Porte. The study did not directly look at the cause of the abnormally high rates of leukemia, lymphoma, cervix, lung and bronchus cancers across the 250-square-mile area.
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2 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Rebekah Ward
While President Donald Trump's administration rolls back climate change rules and U.S. initiatives designed to cut greenhouse gas emissions, the oil and gas sector could still be on track to drastically reduce the release of a major climate-warming gas: methane. Methane has a much shorter lifespan in the atmosphere than carbon dioxide, but in that time it's a more potent contributor to climate change given its powerful heat-trapping properties.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Rebekah Ward
An illuminated traffic sign told drivers to "expect delays" Monday on Montrose Boulevard near Allen Parkway on the first day of a long-awaited construction project that's been years in the making. But the real action was happening down the block, where at least 50 protesters voiced their outrage against a recent change to the project's design that they say prioritizes cars over people.
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3 weeks ago |
houstonchronicle.com | Rebekah Ward
Five months after a hydrogen sulfide leak at the Pemex Deer Park refinery killed two contract workers, the U.S. Chemical Safety Board said they both died while trying to flee the scene. A federal investigation update released this week described the fatal Oct. 10 leak in harrowing detail.
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