Environmental Justice

Retired Texas shrimper wins record-breaking $50 million settlement from plastics manufacturing giant

News Story (Texas)

Retired Texas shrimper wins record-breaking $50 million settlement from plastics manufacturing giant

December 3, 2019 | Texas Tribune
U.S. District Judge Kenneth M. Hoyt approved the settlement agreement between a scrappy environmental coalition and plastics giant Formosa. The settlement is the largest in U.S. history resulting from a citizen environmental suit.
Tags: Environmental Justice

Alleging ‘Environmental Racism,’ El Paso Activists File Civil Rights Complaint Against School District

News Story (Texas)

Alleging ‘Environmental Racism,’ El Paso Activists File Civil Rights Complaint Against School District

April 3, 2018 | Naveena Sadasivam | Texas Observer
“EPISD didn’t propose [a hub for 124 buses] anywhere else because other communities wouldn’t have accepted it,” said Chamizal community organizer Hilda Villegas.
Tags: Environmental Justice | Schools: Discrimination

Relocation plans change for Leathers

News Story (Texas)

Relocation plans change for Leathers

September 21, 2016 | Kirsten Crow | Corpus Christi Caller-Times
Relocation plans for a Northside public housing complex are seeing changes about three weeks after attorneys advocating for tenants filed a letter with federal agencies criticizing the program.
Tags: Environmental Justice | Housing: Eviction

Some Can’t Find New Homes as Demolition of Corpus Christi Public Housing Nears

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Some Can’t Find New Homes as Demolition of Corpus Christi Public Housing Nears

September 19, 2016 | Alexa Ura | Texas Tribune
Mosley and her two-year-old son are among 122 families living at D.N. Leathers, a 75-year-old public housing complex, who must leave by the end of October so the complex can be torn down to make way for reconstruction of the city’s Harbor Bridge.
Tags: Environmental Justice | Housing: Affordability