PRESS ROOM

2025

• UNIVISION |  EPA Propone Cambios a La Ley de Agua Limpia | Ana Raquel Bueno
• TEXAS TRIBUNE | Contracts awarded to design gates and dunes for Gulf Coast “Ike Dike” project | Emily Foxhall
•  CLICK2HOUSTON | ‘We’re talking about poop’: Houston neighborhoods face raw sewage problems, health risks from sewage spills | Joel Eisenbaum
• UNIVISION 45 HOUSTON | Crisis del agua en Texas: Propuesta 4 pretende millonaria inversión para proyectos hídricos | Ana Raquel Bueno
• TEXAS TRIBUNE; CAPITAL & MAIN|It’s brown and burns your eyes. In small town Texas, clean water can be elusive. | Elena Bruess
• PRO PUBLICA; TEXAS TRIBUNE | Texas lawmakers largely ignored recommendations aimed at helping rural areas like Kerr County prepare for flooding | Lexi Churchill and Lomi Kriel
• TENESSEE LOOKOUT | Wetlands protections built an industry for mitigation banking. Rollbacks could erode it. | Cassandra Stephenson & Delaney Dryfoos
• DECELERATION | The Climate Movement Needs to Move Beyond Billionaire-Backed Philanthropies | Syris Valentine
• OIL AND GAS WATCH | States sue over Trump ‘energy emergency’ order that fast-tracks wetlands destruction | Brendan Gibbons
• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | Houston water bill rates to increase by average of 6% starting in April | Kyle McClenagan
• ENVIRONEWS DC NEWS BUREAU | Trump Executive Order Threatens 700 U.S. Wetlands; Leading Enviro Org Gears up for Battle | Greg Schwarz
• LAREDO MORNING TIMES | RGISC pushes for equitable water infrastructure reforms at Texas Capitol | Maria Ruiz
• INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS | Trump Order Fast-Tracks Projects That Would Damage Wetlands, Environmental Groups Say | Amy Green

2024

• ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH NEWS | Petrochemical plants send millions of pounds of pollutants into waterways each year: Report | Cami Ferrell
• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | New report: Dow Freeport chemical plant leads nation in wastewater polluting | Colleen DeGuzman
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | The EPA does not limit dioxins dumped in rivers by plastic makers. A Texas plant is the top offender | Rebekah F. Ward
• WATER EQUITY & CLIMATE RESILIENCE CAUSUS | H2O UP Act of 2024 necessary step to ensure safe, affordable water for all | Statement
• ABC13 | Baytown is in middle of negotiations with EPA in yearslong lawsuit about sewage overflow issue | Rosie Nguyen
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | Houston’s ‘poo problem’ is costing its low-income Black and brown residents the most, data shows | Yilun Chen & Matt Zden
• UNCONVENTIONAL JOURNALIST | Poop Water Part II: Resident Dealing with Systemic Sewage Failures | Sam Oser
• UNCONVENTIONAL JOURNALIST | Poop Water Part I: Policy and Education for Water Justice | Sam Oser
• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | Environmental groups call for $20 million city investment to address private sewer line leaks in Houston | Sarah Grunau
• HOUSTON LANDING | Houston is repairing its aging sewer lines. Some residents say it’s not enough | Elena Bruess
• AXIOS | Houston advocates pressure city for sewage overflow funding | Shafaq Patel
• TELEMUNDO HOUSTON | Comunidad denuncia problemas con el sistema de alcantarillado y agua sucia al noreste de Houston | Ruby Guzman
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | Houston pulls plug on effort to privatize southeast-side water plant | Abby Church
• CENTER FOR BIOLOGICAL DIVERSITY | Lawsuit Launched Over EPA’s Oversight Failure on Dangerous Phosphate Mining Waste | Media Release

2023

• REUTERS | EPA sued over water pollution at oil refineries, plastic plants | Clark Mindock
• PRISM REPORTS | Supreme Court could upend wetland and water protections in the US | Ray Levy Uyeda
• COMMON DREAMS | Groups Sue to Stop Biden From Offering 73 Million Acres to Oil Drillers in Gulf of Mexico | Kenny Stancil
• COMMON DREAMS | Big Oil, Green Groups Sue Over Biden’s Offshore Drilling Plan for the Gulf | Jessica Corbett
• INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS | Outdated EPA Standards Allow Oil Refineries to Pollute Waterways | Dylan Baddour & Martha Pskowski

2022

• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | Pearland employees violated state water policies, told contractors to dump bleach into Clear Creek | Matt deGrood
• COURTHOUSE NEWS SERVICE | Texas regulators turn away from proposed microplastics pollution ban | Cameron Langford

• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | Flood control goes green: How Houston is using nature to combat flooding | Katie Watkins
• THE AUSTIN CHRONICLE | Environmental Groups Warn Congress to Slow Down on Texas Coastal Barrier | Isabel Maney
• TEXAS PLUS WATER | q&a+water: Ayanna Jolivet Mccloud | Todd Votteler
• TIME | Hurricane Harvey’s Environmental Toll Will Only Get Worse | Justin Worland
• WATERKEEPER MAGAZINE | A Broad and Rapid Response to Harvey’s Catastrophic Attack | Pete Nichols, Waterkeeper Magazine
• CITY CAST HOUSTON | Talking Sh*t with Bayou City Waterkeeper 
• THE BAYTOWN SUN | Environmentalists seek to join sewage lawsuit | Mark Fleming
• THE BAYTOWN SUN | DOJ, AG suing Baytown over sewage spills | Mark Fleming
• LAW 360 | Houston Suburb Accused Of Unlawful Sewage Discharges | Morgan Conley
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | Baytown targeted over more than 21 million gallons of sewage waste that spilled in mostly Hispanic communities | Emily Foxhall

2021

• WATERKEEPER ALLIANCE | Putting People and Nature First in Texas’s Petrochemical Corridor | Regulatory Wins | Julia Wildmann
• POLITICS DONE RIGHT | Grassroots Water Activists $2 Billion Win
• BLOOMBERG LAW | Wastewater Leak at Florida Plant Fuels Federal Oversight Debate | Pat Rizzuto, Sylvia Carignan & Jennifer Kay
• COMMUNITY IMPACT | Federal judge approves Houston’s $2 billion answer to Clean Water Act lawsuit | Emma Whalen
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | Judge OKs federal consent decree requiring Houston to make $2 billion in sewer upgrades | Jasper Scherer
• GRIST | Texas’ water problems started way before the winter storm | Adam Mahoney, Grist

2020

• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | $2B sewer consent decree will be felt in Houston’s monthly water bills as soon as next spring | Mike Morris
• COMMUNITY IMPACT | Environmentalists question proposed coastal barrier, ask for deadline extension to comment on plan | Jake Magee
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | Digging Buffalo Bayou deeper? Houstonians up in arms over Army Corps’ ‘old-fashioned’ flood fixes. | Emily Foxhall
• TEXAS LIVING WATERS | Harris County Passes Bylaws for Community Task Force to Create a More Resilient Future | Danielle Goshen
• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | Report Finds Unsafe Levels Of Fecal Contamination At Some Texas Beaches | Katie Watkins
• HOUSTON CHRONICLE | City of South Houston to continue testing for mercury in waters downstream of plant | Perla Trevizo

2019

• FOX 26 | City council approves $2 billion deal with EPA to address chronic pollution | Greg Groogan
• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | Houston’s Sewers Could Soon Get A Multibillion-Dollar Upgrade | Jen Rice
• INSIDE CLIMATE NEWS | After Hurricane Harvey, a Heated Debate Over Flood Control Funds in Texas’ Harris County | Aman Azhar

2018

• THE DAILY NEWS | Groups say maps show corps’ true plans for coastal barrier | John Wayne Ferguson
• COMMUNITY IMPACT | Federal study lays groundwork for Texas coastal barrier | Matt Dulin
• COMMUNITY IMPACT | UPDATE: U.S. Army Corps of Engineers releases study on Texas coastal barrier project | Jake Magee
• TEXAS OBSERVER | Government Asks Court for More Time To Fix Houston’s Decades-Long Sewage Problem | Naveena Sadasivam
• FOX 26 | Polluted local waterways – EPA sues Houston – What’s Your Point? | Greg Groogan
• HOUSTON PUBLIC MEDIA | How is the City Addressing Thousands of Sewage Overflows | Abner Fletcher
• UNIVISON 45 HOUSTON | Houston podría enfrentar una demanda por presuntas violaciones del protocolo de tratamiento de aguas
• ASSOCIATED PRESS | Officials in Harvey-Hit County Pick August for Bond Election | Juan A. Lozano