The Texas Toxic Tour is a project of Texas Public Employees for Environmental Responsibility - Texas PEER - an organization of public employees who are concerned with Texas's environmental policies.
Alarmed that Texas now ranks number one in many categories of pollution, Texas PEER has responded by developing a multi-media web site chronicling the state's environmental degradation.
Over the next six months, the Texas PEER web site will feature stories from the people who know them best, the people of Texas living their lives next to the chemical plants, sludge dumps, toxic waste sites, and polluting industries that litter this state.
The Texas Toxic Tour web site will feature over two dozen video and audio interviews with accompanying text, available in various formats for viewing.
The red skull and crossbones icon on the Texas Toxic Tour map indicates an active tour site. Additional sites will become active on a regular schedule.
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Welcome to Toxic Texas
Tour Stops:
- Elf Atochem: Pollution Giant
- Sea Turtles Dying On The Texas Coast
- Special Deals for Alcoa Aluminum,
Texas' Largest Grandfathered Polluter
- Fouling the Air at TXI
- Uranium Mining Pollution near the King Ranch
- Dumping on the Rio Grande in Laredo
- Kelly Air Force Base: San Antonio's Dumping Ground
- The "Odessa Syndrome" - Environmental Racism in Odessa, Texas
- Big Bend: Air Pollution Threatens Texas' Majestic Landscape
- Corpus Christi's Refinery Row
- Erath County's Booming Dairy Industry Pollutes Texas' Waterways
- Corporate Chicken Empire Saturates East Texas with Pollution
- Corporate Hog Farming in the Panhandle
- Environmental Injustice in Beaumont Texas
- Sierra Blanca, the Nation's Largest Sewage Dump
- PANTEX: Pollution in the Panhandle
- WCS and Bush
- Ingram ReadyMix
- Big Pollution Problems at "Big Sam"
