[stevenwoo]

Lousiana is particularly bad, but there is a huge stretch of I-10 in Texas from east Houston to the border leading into Lousiana that is lined with chemical plants that make things worse - I drove it about 30 years ago.

It took 10 weeks after a river turned completely black from dumping for officials in Texas to do anything. https://www.texastribune.org/2019/04/17/texas-attorney-gener...

Also in Texas - large companies have eminent domain rights on private property - this probably is going to lead to pipelines through the Hill Country (near Austin) in a few years in spite of most of the open space there being in individual owner's hands. https://www.texasmonthly.com/politics/permian-highway-pipeli...