David Leffler

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David Leffler is an Austin-based writer. His work has been featured in the Washington Post, Texas Monthly and Pacific Standard.

Articles by David Leffler

Small Plant, Big Polluter

Thanks to a loophole in the Clean Air Act, William Koch’s Oxbow plant in Port Arthur, Texas, puts out 10 times as much lung-damaging sulfur dioxide as its industrial neighbors. People who live nearby have asked the state for help, to no avail.

by Marcus Stern, Savanna Strott, and David Leffler