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Air Alliance Houston has joined a class-action lawsuit against the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency over the termination of grant funding under the Trump administration.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/07/02/525538/air-alliance-houston-joins-lawsuit-against-trump-admin-for-termination-of-epa-grants/

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From Public Health Watch: In the first 5 months of his 2nd term, President Trump changed federal environmental regulations, and the agencies that enforce them, in ways that will directly affect Texans who live near oil refineries and petrochemical facilities. #publichealthwatch

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/06/25/524839/7-federal-policy-changes-that-will-hurt-polluted-communities/

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Slashed federal grants under President Donald Trump’s administration affected $62 million in grant funding for Houston’s health department along with $67 million for environmental justice projects across 13 coastal counties. 

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/houston/2025/05/30/522706/federal-grant-cuts-hit-environmental-justice-and-health-equity-projects-in-houston/

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As Trump’s administration slashes federal spending deemed wasteful, the EPA cancelled $1.5 million in funding for a project to build out a solar energy farm, create a resilience hub and plant trees in Houston’s long-polluted Fifth Ward.

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2025/04/25/519873/epa-cuts-for-houston-expected-deregulation-of-pollution-could-create-perfect-storm-for-worse-air-quality/

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"Houston's Dirty Dozen": new report shows the twelve worst air polluters in the Houston area

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/07/31/495246/houstons-dirty-dozen-report-the-twelve-worst-air-polluters-in-the-houston-area/

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Rosharon area residents fight proposed rock-crushing facility

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/2024/06/20/491305/rosharon-area-residents-fight-proposed-rock-crushing-facility/

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Harris County is now violating newly-revised federal air quality standards

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/02/07/476822/harris-county-is-now-violating-newly-revised-federal-air-quality-standards/

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The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, after pushback and outcry from stakeholders in the Houston area, has updated its air quality standards permit for concrete batch plants. Do the new requirements go far enough?

https://www.houstonpublicmedia.org/articles/news/energy-environment/2024/01/25/475599/tceq-strengthens-pollution-limiting-requirements-for-concrete-batch-plants-particularly-in-greater-houston/

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