As surreal as it may seem, from 2019 to 2021 six Houston-area refineries were pumping 55 million gallons of chemical-laden wastewater directly into the Houston Ship Channel and other public waterways, and most of them weren’t breaking any rules.
Few pipelines are available to move the carbon captured from industrialized areas such as the Houston Ship Channel to remote oil fields where it can be used and stored underground.
Soon after Hurricane Harvey's rains ceased, students and professors from the University of Houston and Rice University set out with boats and shovels to study the storm's environmental impact on waterways, homes, yards and soil.
