A tanker truck waits to be loaded with chemicals at K-Solv, a chemical distribution company nestled in a residential area in Channelview, Texas. The Texas Commission on Environmental Quality repeatedly documented high levels of cancer-causing benzene downwind of the facility but has allowed the company to expand. Today K-Solv can legally release 20 times more volatile organic compounds — a class of chemicals that includes benzene — into the air each year than it did in 2005.
Mark Felix
This article was reported by Public Health Watch, a nonprofit, nonpartisan investigative news organization.
