In 2005, Texas regulators documented startling amounts of benzene in a community outside Houston. Instead of solving the problem, they allowed a known benzene polluter to expand.
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Savanna Strott is a Las Vegas-based journalist who covers environmental health for Public Health Watch and also writes for The Nevada Independent. Her work has been published by outlets including Grist, the Texas Observer and the Investigative Reporting Workshop. She can be reached at sstrott@publichealthwatch.org.
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The large deadly toll of small particle pollution in Texas and Harris County
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