Most Recent in Texas Politics:

1Opinion: From ‘Friendly’ State to Enmity State

2Life and Death in a Texas Homeless Camp

3For Greg Abbott, All the Border’s a Stage

4How Far Can Texas Democrats Take the Quorum Break?

5After Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer Partners Made Billions from the Deadly Texas Blackouts, He Gave $1 Million to Greg Abbott

6Texas House Republicans Vote to Track Down Absent Democrats and Arrest Them If Necessary

Most Recent in Environment:

1Samantha Montano Has ‘Disaster Vision’

2Battleground Plant

3In West Texas, Astronomers Worry About Growing Oilfield Light Pollution

4After Kelcy Warren’s Energy Transfer Partners Made Billions from the Deadly Texas Blackouts, He Gave $1 Million to Greg Abbott

5Communities of Color in Houston Will Face Another Hurricane Season Without Adequate Flood Control

6“People Are Wiped Out”: Costs Pile Up as Hurricane Season Begins

Most Recent in Border:

1Two Years After Walmart Mass Shooting, El Paso Leaders See Inaction and Betrayal by Texas Officials

2For Greg Abbott, All the Border’s a Stage

3Moments From the Reopening of Balmorhea Pool

4Undocumented Immigrants Continue to Be Expelled From the U.S. Under Title 42 COVID-19 Measures

5Follow the Money

6Siguiendo La Ruta Del Dinero

Most Recent in Criminal Justice:

1In Memory of Santos Rodriguez

2Home, But Not Free: NSA Whistleblower Reality Winner Adjusts to Her Release From Prison

3A Wrongful Execution in Texas Points to the Fallibility of the Death Penalty

4Mentally Ill and Sentenced to Death

5An Irreversible Sentence

6Yet Again, Texas Lawmakers Face Crisis Conditions in Texas Prisons

Most Recent in Education:

1Resignation Letter

2The Unlikely Demise of Texas’ Biggest Corporate Tax Break

3Texas Educators Worry Bill Limiting the Teaching of Current Events and Historic Racism Would “Whitewash History”

4‘I Felt Like They Were Demonizing My People’: Advocates and Families Point to Biases in Texas Curricula

5The Long, Winding Road that Led to the SBOE’s Decision for Texas Schools to Teach Abstinence-Plus Sex Education

6Efforts to Save What’s Left of Mary Allen Seminary Reveal The Challenges of Preserving Black Placemaking in Texas

Most Recent in Health Care:

1Opinion: From ‘Friendly’ State to Enmity State

2Texas Veterans Homes Overseen by George P. Bush Were Often the Deadliest Places to Be During COVID-19 Pandemic

3The People’s Scientist

4Profit Before Patient

5Texas Expands Access to Medical Cannabis—But Advocates Say It’s Not Enough

6In the Drill Zone, Children’s Health Is Looking Bleak

Most Recent in The Interview:

1Researcher Howard Henderson on Reimagining Policing in the U.S.

2Texas Observer Founding Editor Ronnie Dugger Reflects on 65 Years of Publication

3How Katharine Hayhoe Stays Hopeful as the Planet Warms

4Author William Lopez on How Immigration Raids Inflict Long-Lasting Trauma

5Why a Texas Gun Control Activist is Optimistic About the Chances for Reform

6American Health Care is Broken, Especially in Texas. What Can We Do About It?

Most Recent in Books:

1In ‘Al Norte,’ a Through Line of Transience That Is Still True Today

2A Feminist Rewrite of Lot

3‘Forget the Alamo’ Unravels a Texas History Made of Myths, or Rather, Lies

4‘On Juneteenth’ Refuses Easy Answers About the Importance of People of Color to Texas History

5‘Leaving Isn’t the Hardest Thing’ Tours Dark Places That Are Hard to Call Home

6Jung Young Moon’s Strange Novels Cross Continents

Most Recent in Features:

1How to Die in Texas

2Young Texans Keep Spelling Bees Going From Home

4San Antonio Embraces Mandaean Refugees

5The Ghosts of Jefferson

6Little Arthouse on the Prairie

Most Recent in Essay:

1Battleground Plant

2An Irreversible Sentence

3Editorial: Look Down Ballot for Democratic Wins in Texas

4What the Black Lives Matter Protests Mean for East Texas

5Raise a Glass to the Class of COVID-19

6What’s a Bookstore for?

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1Eye on Texas: The Essential Women of Austin

2Eye on Texas: A House Divided

3Eye on Texas: The Black Yearbook

4Eye on Texas: Border Tuner

5Eye on Texas: The Broken Wheel Ranch Project

6Eye on Texas: Spike Johnston

Most Recent in Poetry:

1Poem: ‘Late Night at the Lege’

2‘My Cousin Dies, Like a Deer, On the Side of the Road’

3Poet Claudia Delfina Cardona on Her Debut Poetry Chapbook

4Author Saeed Jones on Empathy, the Power of Memoir, and Growing up Gay in North Texas

5Remembering W.S. Merwin, Honorary Texan

6Lost in Limbo in the Hays County Jail

Articles tagged: air quality

by Christopher Collins

TCEQ is Finally Doing Something About an East Texas Polluter

After years of inaction, the state environmental agency is poised to force German Pellets to install pollution controls at its Woodville processing plant.

Wed, Jan 2, 2019 |

One day in late November, a cloud of white smoke swept through Woodville, a small East Texas town of 2,500 about 55 miles north of Beaumont. It was a moment tha...Read More

by Kolten Parker and Ignacio Martinez

This Week: Texans’ Health Under Attack by Republican Lawmakers

From air quality to vaccines, much of this week’s Observer coverage focuses on public health in Texas.

Fri, Jun 23, 2017 |

Keep up with the Observer’s sharp reporting on the Legislature and throughout Texas with this weekly newsletter. As GOP leaders in Washington, D.C. push a...Read More

by Naveena Sadasivam

Getting Wise to Bad Air: North Texans Take Smog Monitoring Into Own Hands

After TCEQ refused to place smog monitors in Wise County, a local environmental group decided to take action.

Wed, Jun 21, 2017 |

How bad is the smog problem in Wise County? Situated just west of the Dallas-Fort Worth sprawl, Wise County is in the heart of the Barnett Shale gas patch and s...Read More

July 2016 feature coal plant L

by Naveena Sadasivam

Bill Would Reduce Opportunities for Texans to Protest Corporate Polluters, Critics Say

The measure takes aim at TCEQ’s permitting process, often the last chance for neighboring communities to oppose polluting plants.

Wed, Mar 1, 2017 |

The measure takes aim at TCEQ’s permitting process, often the last chance for neighboring communities to oppose polluting plants. ...Read More

by Naveena Sadasivam

Environmental Regulators Quietly Shrink Public Comment Period for Concrete Plants

Shortening the comment period by 15 days could burden citizens and reduce their opportunity to participate in the permitting process.

Fri, Jan 13, 2017 |

Legal experts say the move, carried out at an industry association's request, will hinder Texans' ability to engage in the process....Read More

by Forrest Wilder

Studies: Links Between Fracking and Smog Pollution Stronger Than State Claims

Thu, Apr 17, 2014 |

New research suggests that pollution from fracking contributes a much larger share of Dallas-Fort Worth’s smog problem than state officials have said. ...Read More

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