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EPA chief visits Houston’s heavily polluted neighborhoods as residents call for accountability

During EPA Administrator Michael Regan's visit, residents expressed concerns about a range of issues, including concrete batch plants, creosote contamination and the cumulative impact of pollution from multiple facilities concentrated in the same area.
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