"For years, oil refineries across the country have pumped out dangerous levels of benzene, a toxic chemical that can cause leukemia and other blood cancers.
But in a rare example of environmental progress, benzene emissions from nearly all of those refineries have recently plummeted due to strong federal regulations and oversight, according to a new analysis by a watchdog group."
Late night walk. It’s midnight. Pass a car parked in a driveway with the interior lights on. House is darkened. They’ll likely have a dead battery in the morning.
#Poverty doesn’t cause social breakdown, nor is social breakdown confined to areas with high levels of poverty, Seth Kaplan writes in “Fragile #Neighborhoods.”
Perhaps you’ve been to the nightlife strip known as La 70 in Medellín. Or a skatepark in the Baltic Triangle part of Liverpool. If so, you’ve been to some very cool places. Timeout.com polled thousands of people to rank the 40 coolest neighborhoods in the world. Here’s what they came up with: https://flip.it/sacX42 #Culture#World#Neighborhoods#Cool#City
A sneak preview of the September/October issue of Texas Observer magazine, featuring stories by Eva Ruth Moravec, Kit @oconnell, Reynaldo Leaños Jr. and @gabrielarana.
The new issue will be arriving in mailboxes, inboxes, and at select newsstands soon.
Our magazine's cover story: Gunfire jolted Zoey Sanchez awake one February night, as a party at a nearby 'short-term rental' turned violent. When she emerged from her home, she got a worse shock—a bullet hole in the window of her daughter's playroom.
The Bike Path wall map