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1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

3Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

4First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

5Trump’s Twitter Account Alone Disqualifies Him for POTUS

6Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

Most Recent in Environment:

1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2Feeling the Burn in Big Bend

3Outgoing State Rep. Jim Keffer on Trump, Climate Change and Being a Tea Party Target

4The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

5Climate Science ‘Skeptic’ Lamar Smith Claims to Aid Scientists in Latest Crusade

6Report: Seven Texas Coal Plants Could Close in Coming Years

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1Report: Mexico’s Border Crackdown Sends Migrants into Dangerous Territory

2Hundreds Gather to Remember the 1966 Texas Farmworkers’ March

3In Texas, Trump Signals a Plan for Victory in Defeat

4Trump Takes Texas, in Photos

5Texas Relents on Birth Certificates for Children of Undocumented Immigrants

6TCEQ: Contested Coal Mine Can Release Wastewater Into Drinking Supply

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1Lege Hearing Gets Tense Over Racial Profiling

2Texas Judge Dismisses Trans Prisoner’s Lawsuit Seeking Gender Confirmation Surgery

3Citing Observer Report, Senators Vow Stronger Protection for Texans Under Guardianship

4Texas Activists Protest Modern-Day ‘Slavery’ in Prisons

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

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1Once Again, School District Shuts Down Tax Break for Gas Exporter

2First School District Set to Join Parents’ Lawsuit Over STAAR

3Dallas ISD Considers Ending Suspensions for Young Students

4Hundreds Rally to Reject ‘Racist’ Mexican-American History Text

5How a Tiny ‘Startup’ in Houston ISD is Reinventing Discipline for Thousands of Students

6Judge Gives Go-Ahead to Parents Suing Texas Over Too-Long STAAR Test

Most Recent in Health Care:

1The Texas Miracle #23: She Fought the Law — and the Law Lost

2The Texas Miracle #22: Dancing with the Snark (and Rick Perry)

3Op-Ed: Abortion Access and Trans Health Care Are Bound Together in Texas

4Crisis Pregnancy Center Among Texas Repro Health Contractors

5Oil and Gas Smog Projected to Cause 140,000 Asthma Attacks in Kids

6The Texas Miracle #18: Our Best 40 Minutes (So Far)

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2The Interview: Judge John Dietz on Texas’ School Finance Crisis

3The Interview: Frank Jackson

4The Interview: Cecile Richards

5The Interview: Anthony Graves

6The Interview: Elliott Naishtat

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1All the Wrong Moves

2In ‘Houston on the Move,’ the Bayou City Wakes Up

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4Meet the Texas Scholar Who Unearthed Walt Whitman’s 19th Century Clickbait

5Send Us Your Stories, Writers

6Hiking the Keystone XL Pipeline and Hoping for Dialogue

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2Feathering Their Nest

3The Business of Burying Horses

4Fragile Species

5Rotten Apples in Donna ISD

6Holding Back the Flood

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2David Bowie in Aztlán

3The 66 Percent: Erasing Mexican Americans in the United States

4The New Migrants

5How the 1% Gardens

6Our Blue Period

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2Eye on Texas: Blessing of the Hands in San Antonio

3Eye on Texas: Austin’s Chapels

4Eye on Texas: Portico Tejas

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6Eye on Texas: Uncertain, Texas

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2Poem: ‘Rice and Beans’

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4Poem: Aleppo Oslo Jos Boston

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6Poem: ‘While I Was Trying to Avoid Falling in Love’

Tag Archives: pollution

Texas Barnett Shale gas drilling rig near Alvarado, Texas

by Naveena Sadasivam

App Lets Texans Find Out How Close They Live to Polluters

Searchable tool places 2.3 million Texans within a half mile of potentially hazardous oil and gas operations.

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Wed, Jun 15, 2016 |

A new searchable app lets Texans find out how close their homes, schools and hospitals are to some of the state's worst polluters: the oil and gas industry....Read More

Native Texans march against the Dos Republicas Coal Partnership in Eagle Pass.

by Naveena Sadasivam

Going Beyond Green for a Racially Diverse Environmental Movement

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Fri, Jun 10, 2016 |

The Austin Environmental Justice group is working to bring diversity to an environmental movement sometimes suffering from "savior syndrome."...Read More

Drilling rig near a house in Karnes County

by Forrest Wilder

UPDATED: Air Pollution from Fracking in Eagle Ford Shale Threatens Health, Report Claims

Thu, Sep 19, 2013 |

A new 47-page report from Earthworks takes a sobering look at the potential health risks from fracking-related air pollution in Karnes County, one of the epicen...Read More

Mauricio Blanco

by Emily DePrang

Direct Quote: Fishing For a Living On the Texas Coast

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Mon, Mar 4, 2013 |

Mauricio Blanco has made a life on the Texas coast as an oysterman, though drought and pollution make it harder to earn a living every year....Read More

Tonight: the Observer Environmental Justice Road Show Comes to Houston

by Emily DePrang

Leave a comment | Wed, Nov 28, 2012

Tonight, the Texas Observer’s own Melissa del Bosque will moderate a free public forum in Houston called “The True Cost of Environmental Justice.” At issu...Read More

Latricia Jones' son Dre'vyon needs daily breathing treatments to relieve his chronic asthma

Life On the Fence Line

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Wed, Oct 24, 2012 |

Suffering from chronic illnesses and cancer, Corpus Christi residents can't afford to relocate. ...Read More

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