New research shows that intense wildfires can transform naturally occurring chromium in soil into a carcinogenic form that lingers in air and groundwater for years.
Wildfires are lasting later into the night and starting earlier in the morning because human-caused climate change is extending the hotter and drier conditions that feed them.
Jackie Chesnutt, who lives outside San Angelo, is tired of pollution from wells she says should have been plugged years ago. Experts say Texas rules allow companies to defer plugging wells for far too long.
