A Texas Community Is Being Bombarded by Cancer-Causing Benzene. State Officials Have Known for Nearly Two Decades

The K-Solv facility in Channelview, TX, U.S., on Wednesday, December 6, 2023. Photographer: Mark Felix/Public Health Watch

For nearly 20 years, Texas environmental regulators have kept a disturbing secret. People living in a small, unincorporated community east of Houston are routinely breathing dangerous levels of benzene, a chemical linked to leukemia and other blood cancers. Emerging research also connects it to diabetes and reproductive problems.  The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality, or […]