Report claims officials failed to warn residents of health hazard impacting community: 'They didn’t want people to see these numbers'

Report claims officials failed to warn residents of health hazard impacting community: 'They didn’t want people to see these numbers'

Decades of warnings did nothing to stop extreme pollution in a Houston-area community, and then a state agency raised its allowable limits. What's happening? Residents of Channelview were never notified of hazardous levels of benzene, a carcinogen, because the Texas Commission on Environmental Quality changed its guidelines, Public Health Watch reported. The tests were conducted in 2021 and 2022 but not made public until 2024. In June, another m…