The Loosely Regulated Petrochemical Barge Industry Is Commandeering a Texas River

This article was originally published by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit investigative news organization. Find out more at publichealthwatch.org. SAN JACINTO RIVER, Texas—Over the past 30 years, federal and state agencies in Texas have allowed hundreds of oil and chemical barges to amass in a once-tranquil section of the San Jacinto River, just east of Houston.  […]