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Coastal Texas bears brunt of US plastic pollution

Former shrimper Diane Wilson watches in disgust as a Taiwan-owned factory in Texas spews millions of plastic pellets into the Matagorda Bay.
For years Wilson has been documenting this pollution by Formosa Plastics Group, the world’s fourth-largest plastic manufacturer. It set up shop in 1983 south of Houston in Point Comfort, near the waters where she used to catch shrimp in abundance.
“When we did the sampling on Formosa, we found 2,000 violations. How many did the state of Texas have? Zero,” Wilson told reporters as she stood at the helm of a shrimp boat.
She said regulators at environmental protection agencies in ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20210914 18:51:00

News by management firm and his long time producing partner who say that mcdonald had been receiving treatment for cancer for nearly a decade but was determined to keep his condition private. he was with snl from 193 to 1998 and known for his remarkable dry humor and his memorable take on burt reynolds. and as a foe of will ferrell s alex trebek character on celebrity jeopardy. norm mcdonald was just 61 years old. all right. we re going to turn to tropical storm nicholas which is drenching the gulf coast this afternoon. the storm which is moving slowly could bring a foot of rain to coastal texas. the national hurricane center is warning of the potential for life threatening flash floods across texas and louisiana. joining us now is nbc s vaughn hilliard from lake charles, louisiana, and michelle grossman is back with us. nicholas could unleash up to a foot of rain along the gulf ....

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Transcripts for KPIX CBS Evening News With Norah ODonnell 20210914 01:35:00

Once again, we re dealing with a life-threatening flood situation. i think undoubtedly roads will become impassable in certain areas and there will be water in homes. right now the storm is located offshore and so is the rain. but it is moving north at a good clip at 12 miles an hour, right now it s a tropical storm but could become a hurricane briefly around midnight before making landfall around the bay city area. after that somewhat uncertain. here s why: notice the bend to the east. some computer models slow it down to a crawl. if that happens, we re talking about catastrophic flooding. a five out of five flood risk for places like galveston all the way east towards port arthur and the big flood threat move from northeast texas into louisiana during the day tomorrow. anywhere you see in the white means we could see over a foot of rain, some places picking up as much as 20 inches of rain that s both for coastal texas, northeast texas and also in interior portions of louisiana as wel ....

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Transcripts for MSNBC Katy Tur Reports 20210914 18:52:00

Coast. people have been d hit by ida, w are people preparing? so far we and our team are chasing this storm. we start off in houston. they took an impact of a couple inches of rain in more than 400,000 customers went without power because of wind wind gusts in the last six hours, half of those individuals had their power already restored. we then went to beaumont, texas. we re now in lake charles, louisiana. i think a lot of the story has to do with the impact that this storm is leaving on places that have been hit harder by other storms. that window is an impact from hurricane laura one year ago. you can see places luke lake charles, they were ready for a great amount of rain to come down. we ve only seen a couple inches despite warning that s it could be up to 14 inches here. again, look over here. this is an old bank building. still half the windows blown out ....

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Nicholas is forecast to bring flooding rain to Texas while two disturbances develop in the Atlantic

Nicholas is forecast to bring flooding rain to Texas while two disturbances develop in the Atlantic
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