Can Matt Damon’s New Fracking Movie Save the Environment?
by Cindy Casares / Posted on | 1 CommentPromised Land, a new film starring Matt Damon and directed by Gus Van Sant, will familiarize Americans with the f-word—fracking.
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Keystone XL Protests Rage On in East Texas [Updated]
by Priscila Mosqueda / Posted on | 2 CommentsIn early October, I met a group of environmental activists who were camping in trees 80 feet above the ground near Winnsboro, hoping to prevent the Keystone XL pipeline’s construction in East Texas. Two months later, the battle over Keystone XL rages on.
Read full postTonight: the Observer Environmental Justice Road Show Comes to Houston
by Emily DePrang / Posted on | No CommentsTonight, the Texas Observer’s own Melissa del Bosque will moderate a free public forum in Houston called “The True Cost of Environmental Justice.” At [...]
Read full postYou May Be Done with the Drought, But It’s Not Done with You
by Forrest Wilder / Posted on | 1 CommentThe drought that began in late 2010 (or did it begin in 2009, or 2005, or 2003 with some wet periods in between?) is intensifying again.
Read full postKoch Comes After the Observer
by Dave Mann / Posted on | 1 Comment“Kochworld” profiles the fenceline communities bordering the Koch and Citgo-owned refineries in Corpus. Melissa del Bosque and Jen Reel spent months interviewing sick residents living in the shadow of refineries spewing large amounts of known carcinogens such as benzene and 1,3-butadiene.
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