Wendy Selene Pérez / Texas Tribune, Author at Houston Landing

Cristina Lazo starts the daily routine of washing her daughter Alina’s hands, changing clothes and rubbing an ointment on her irritated eyes after coming home from the outside. Lazo believes the fumes from the nearby industrial sector are contributing to her 7-year-old daughter’s symptoms.

Toxic air lingers in a Texas Latino community, revealing failures in state’s air monitoring system

by Alejandra Martinez / Texas Tribune and Wendy Selene Pérez / Texas Tribune March 14, 2024 | 5:26 amMarch 14, 2024 | 5:26 am

The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality’s decades-old air monitoring system does not measure many of the known pollutants coming from the nearby petrochemical plants.