Emily Foxhall

Knight Science Journalism Fellow

Emily Foxhall

Knight Science Journalism Fellow

Houston flood protection: How it works, and why it sometimes doesn’t
Living in Houston means living with the risk of severe flooding. Hurricane Harvey and other storms have shown how vulnerable the region is to being swamped. That danger remains, even with infrastructure to mitigate it. For now, two massive reservoirs west
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A ‘classic example’ of racism: Environmental justice pioneer slams proposed landfill in Houston
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Bob Bullard stood at the microphone in the banquet hall on the west side of town and reminded Texas environmental regulators that they needed to protect everyone equally under the law. Bullard
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San Antonio has a hidden downtown flood tunnel. Could Houston build one even bigger and bolder?
SAN ANTONIO — If one stands quietly in a small park at the corner of West Josephine Street and River Road in this three-century-old city, one can hear the stormwater system that officials believe saved their historic downtown. It’s the muffled roar of wat
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These Texas kids get seconds to show their pigs at RodeoHouston — then the tears start
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Ty Smith repeatedly tapped either side of his pig with a show whip, trying to make the most of his seconds before a judge at the Houston Livestock Show and Rodeo before he would have to part wi
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Texas wants to demolish an old warehouse. They just need to figure out what to do with 750,000 bats first.
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate HUNTSVILLE — Hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats streamed out of the abandoned brick building on a recent weeknight, leaving behind the burned-out structure where they’ve stayed f
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In heated fight over contaminated rail yard, Fifth Ward asks: Would this happen in River Oaks?
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Dianna Cormier-Jackson has lived in Fifth Ward all 67 years of her life. And in the low-income neighborhood, northeast of downtown, she says she put up with certain things, such as greasy, gaso
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A Houston teen died of leukemia in Fifth Ward. After cancer cluster discovery, his family fights on.
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate LaTonya Payne sat in the Texas Roadhouse booth Monday night, surrounded by family and friends, to commemorate what should have been her son’s 14th birthday. Payne, 49, scrolled her iPhone. A gr
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EXPOSED | PART ONE
Lina Hidalgo arrived late and flustered to the rodeo grounds for Armed Forces Appreciation Day, missing the Apache helicopter flyover and a soloist’s rendition of “God Bless America.”. The 29-year-old Democrat, who won the campaign for Harris County’s top government job two years ago, headed straight for the podium.
Houston Chronicle
A blast. Then chaos.
Santa Fe - Travis Stanich smoked a Marlboro behind his house in the predawn darkness Friday as his stepson slipped out the back door.
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
Tiny West Texas town bears brunt of bump stock ban
MORAN — This tiny West Texas town is fading. The Methodist church is for sale, the American Legion post is on the brink of closing and half the main drag is shuttered.
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
With its dunes damaged, Surfside Beach needs more recycled Christmas trees than ever
This is a carousel. Use Next and Previous buttons to navigate Suzy Mitchell watched with growing concern last summer as storm after storm entered the Gulf of Mexico and neared Texas, their winds pushing water over the sand toward her Surfside Beach home.
Houston Chronicle
Two shot, one dead. What happens for the man who lived?
Chuck Olson was in a smoky strip-center bar called B.B. Wolf’s on a Thursday night playing Texas Hold ’em, the same game hehosted four years ago in an office space a mile away, when a robber shot him clear through the neck, and another man was shot and killed, and a night that would have been like any other became the worst night of Olson’s life.
Houston Chronicle
Balmorhea pool is closing again
Day by day, visitors flock to the sparkling, spring-fed Balmorhea pool in the Chihuahuan desert. They come by the hundreds, buying tickets ahead, packing food for the day. Four miles separate the attraction from the city of Balmorhea, population 479. The historic swimming hole helped make the town known.
Houston Chronicle
Before she went missing, Mary Cerruti left a self-portrait at her home in the Houston Heights
Few on Allston Street knew much about Mary Cerruti when she quietly vanished. But she left behind her own self-portrait in dozens of annotated photographs, developed at Walgreens. Whether Cerruti intended for others to see them is anyone's guess. A realtor bought her Houston Heights home at a foreclosure auction in late 2015.
Houston Chronicle
Houston Chronicle
One final loving vigil
Veronica Eckhardt bent over the hospital bed, sponging paint onto the sole of her son's left foot. Doctors had declared Connor Eckhardt brain-dead the day before, at age 19. Machines breathed for him in the Neuro Intensive Care Unit at Hoag Hospital in Newport Beach. Veronica's husband, Devin, held his son's leg steady as she continued to apply a mixture of brown and blue, Connor's favorite colors.
Los Angeles Times
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“We’ve come to say goodbye”: Visitors flock to Fairfield Lake State Park on its last day
Sign up for The Brief, The Texas Tribune’s daily newsletter that keeps readers up to speed on the most essential Texas news. FAIRFIELD LAKE STATE PARK — Mari Null pulled up to the window at the headquarters of Fairfield Lake State Park on Monday to buy en
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About

Emily Foxhall

I'm a 2024-25 Knight Science Journalism fellow at MIT. I'm on leave from covering climate at the Texas Tribune, where my reporting focused on Texas’ transition to green energy, the reliability of the power grid and impacts of climate change. I began my career at the Los Angeles Times and its local papers. I later worked at the Houston Chronicle, where I covered climate disasters, industrial pollution and environmental policy. I won several Texas Managing Editors awards and was part of the 2017 team that was named a finalist for the Pulitzer Prize for breaking news coverage of Hurricane Harvey. I graduated from Yale University in 2013.