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Environment

A New Generation of Industries Emerges in Texas from Federal Push for Mining Revival

The United States doesn’t produce the minerals and metals needed for renewable energy, microchips, or military technology. Authorities want to change that as quickly as possible.

by Dylan Baddour

Keep Reading

Where the Water Reached

by Brenda Bazán

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

by Gus Bova

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

by Dylan Baddour

June 2016 Postcards, Eagle Pass, coal mine protest, Dos Republicas Jun 06, 2016

In the Name of Our Ancestors

Against the odds, indigenous activists take on an international coal mining firm.

by Hannah McBride

June 2016 feature May 31, 2016

Company Town

How big business turned a Gulf Coast beach town into an industrial zone.

by Naveena Sadasivam

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

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