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Environment

Editor’s Letter: Introducing Our May/June 2025 Issue

A note from the editor-in-chief

by Gus Bova

Keep Reading

Corpus Christi Launches Emergency Water Projects as Reservoirs Dwindle and Industrial Demand Grows 

by Dylan Baddour

Texas Uranium Mining Portends Nuclear Revival

by Dylan Baddour

How Texas Diminished a Once-Rigorous Air Pollution Monitoring Team

by Dylan Baddour and Peter Aldhous

May 19, 2016

Water Board Passes Plan To Boost Supply as Texas Grows

by Naveena Sadasivam

Houston skyline. Apr 29, 2016

Texas Supreme Court Blocks Houston Air Quality Ordinance

by Naveena Sadasivam

In a new report, researchers write that industrial air pollution, enabled by legal loopholes and lax enforcement, was particularly pronounced in the Permian Basin in West Texas. pollution Apr 27, 2016

Report: Lax Enforcement, Loopholes Lead to Few Consequences for Polluters

by Naveena Sadasivam

Earth Day Texas Apr 26, 2016

Mainstream Groups Heat Up Over ‘Racist’ Anti-Immigrant Orgs at Earth Day Texas

by Naveena Sadasivam

Apr 25, 2016

Fragile Species

Can bats survive in a human-engineered world?

by Asher Elbein

The Texas Miracle podcast logo Apr 22, 2016

The Texas Miracle #4: How to Die in Texas

On this week's podcast: Tips for shuffling off this Texas mortal coil, a Trinity River showdown and a prairie defilement that's nothing to sniff at.

by Andrea Grimes

Representatives from the Lipan Apache Band of Texas, Pacuache Band Coahuiltecan Nation, Carrizo-Comecrudo Tribe of Texas, and both the American Indian Movements of Central Texas and Southern California participated in the march against the Dos Republicas low-grade coal mine. Apr 20, 2016

Native Groups Open New Front Against Border Coal Mine

Tribal leaders say binational coal companies are mining on sacred ancestral lands.

by Katerina Barton

Big Bend -- Pete Gallego and Will Hurd district Apr 15, 2016

Big Bend Becomes Congressional Battleground

Pete Gallego’s going green in a bid to reclaim the purple district for Democrats.

by Naveena Sadasivam

Houston skyline. Mar 30, 2016

TCEQ Chairman: Reducing Smog Will Make Texans Sick

The head of the state’s environmental agency told lawmakers that lowering ozone levels will harm, rather than help, Texans.

by Naveena Sadasivam

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