For years, the EPA and Texas ignored warning signs at a chemical storage site. Then an inferno erupted.

Regulators repeatedly documented — but did little to address — problems at a Houston-area tank farm.

New data show Houston-area communities are being flooded with chemicals

"The people there are tired of being studied. We need to take action.”

A Texas county wants to punish polluters. The state won’t let it.

Residents of eastern Harris County have grown tired of almost-daily chemical leaks and the occasional catastrophe.…