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EPA

Local Environmental Groups Are Still Reeling from Trump’s DOGE Cuts 

Since last year, the EPA has cut millions of dollars in grants previously awarded for environmental initiatives in Texas during the Biden administration.

by Justin Doud

Keep Reading

TPPF’s Long Love Affair with Ken Paxton

by Toni Aguilar Rosenthal

Koch-Owned Plant Finds Legal Ways to Pollute

by Savanna Strott and Riley Rogerson

The EPA Placed a Texas Superfund Site on its National Priorities List in 2018. Why Is the Health Threat Still Unknown?

by Alejandra Martinez

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

Apr 21, 2015

The Legislature’s Approach to Climate Change: Say Nothing, Do Nothing

by Forrest Wilder

A portion of the San Jacinto River Waste Pits site, near the Interstate 10 bridge in Harris County, remains visible as the sandy area in the center left of this photograph. Sep 04, 2014

The Battle of the San Jacinto River

by Forrest Wilder

Jun 03, 2014

Obama EPA Proposes Major Cuts to Carbon Pollution

by Forrest Wilder

Feb 19, 2013

State Government Hoarding, Not Spending Clean-Air Money

by Liz Farmer

Texas Comptroller Susan Combs Jan 11, 2013

“We’re the Good Guys”: Conservatives Make the Case for Free-Market Environmentalism

by Forrest Wilder

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