Environment

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

A note from the editor-in-chief

PFAS do not break down but rather persist indefinitely. It is possible that Dad drank carcinogenic water for most of his life.

Texas officials go to bat for oil and gas while the climate-fueled Smokehouse Creek Fire still rages.

A high-tech chemical company has purchased the last available water in the Nueces River to make hydrogen and ammonia for export.

Blocked in Louisiana, Formosa Plastics looks to grow around Texas' Lavaca Bay, but it and other industrial plants are waiting for water.

This is fine.

Exploring the foliage for crawling, flying critters in one of Austin’s most beautiful nature preserves.

Declaring an endangered species officially gone can take decades.

These dropoff sites for free food appeared across the U.S. during the pandemic, reducing waste and methane emissions in the process.

The state is proposing to approve a 17-year-old standard that leading scientists and public health officials call inadequate.